It’s Time to Refer a Case Against the USA to the ICJ and ICC

Hossein Askari
8 min readAug 9, 2024

The USA is Complicit in Israel’s Crimes and Must be Held Accountable

On August 7, Türkiye (or Turkey) showed courage and stood up for humanity. It became the seventh country asking to join the case that South Africa brought against Israel for ‘genocide’ on December 29, 2023 at the International Court of Justice (ICJ), the United Nations’ highest court. This is the case that has already been joined by Colombia, Nicaragua, Spain, Libya, Palestine and Mexico with Belgium waiting in the wings to join. Note that only one Arab country besides Palestine, namely Libya, has joined the case.

Why such reticence by most countries, especially Arab countries, to join South Africa’s well-reasoned case? It’s because of pressure from the United States coupled with insecure Arab rulers who keep shamelessly silent as they need U.S. support to stay in power. It’s that simple.

How complicit is America in Israel’s rogue reign of terror? America has given more aid to Israel than to any other country. Not that Israel is poor, being in fact richer than France, but because of the power of the Zionist lobby in the United States. There’s much more than the billions of dollars we have given to Israel every year. Israel gets top-of-the-line arms that no other country gets…

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Hossein Askari
Hossein Askari

Written by Hossein Askari

MIT engineer-economist. Prof: Tufts, UT-Austin, GW. IMF Board. Gov Mediator: Iran, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait. Focus on Econ-Fin, Oil, Sanctions, Mid-East, Islam

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