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Fast Forward Israel Plans To Target Top Palestinian Leaders for ‘War Crimes’
Israel is looking at ways to prosecute senior Palestinians for war crimes in the United States and elsewhere in response to Palestinian steps to join the International Criminal Court, an Israeli official said on Saturday. The Palestinians delivered to U.N. headquarters in New York on Friday documents on joining the Rome Statute of the International…
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Fast Forward U.S. Warns of ‘Implications’ as Palestinians Deliver International Court Documents
In a move that heightened tensions with Israel and could lead to cuts in U.S. aid, the Palestinians on Friday delivered to U.N. headquarters documents on joining the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court and other international treaties. The chief Palestinian observer at the United Nations, Riyad Mansour, and U.N. spokesman Farhan Haq confirmed…
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Fast Forward Congress Warns Palestinians Over International Criminal Court Move
Republican and Democratic lawmakers in Congress said there would be repercussions for the Palestinian Authority in the wake of its application to join the International Criminal Court. “Congress must do everything in its power to block funds to the P.A. and to any U.N. entity that recognizes a non-existent State of Palestine to make it…
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Opinion Playing Game of Chicken Over ICC ‘War Crimes’
Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas may have opened the door to his government’s joining the International Criminal Court on New Year’s Eve when he signed the Rome Statute, the 2002 treaty that created the court. But that doesn’t make the Palestinian Authority — or the State of Palestine, as the United Nations now calls it —…
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Fast Forward Is Mahmoud Abbas Choosing Confrontation With International Criminal Court Move?
(Reuters) — Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has entered into his most serious confrontation yet with Israel by signing onto the International Criminal Court (ICC). His decision on Wednesday gives the court jurisdiction over crimes committed in Palestinian lands and could even lead to cases being brought against Israeli or Palestinian leaders. The nearly 80-year-old bespectacled…
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Fast Forward Palestinians Upgrade Status at International Criminal Court
The Palestinians have become a non-state observer at the International Criminal Court based in The Hague. The ICC upgraded the Palestine Liberation Organization on Monday, during a summit meeting of the 122 countries that are members of the court. The Palestinian ambassador to the United Nations, Riyad Mansour, told the Palestinian Maan news agency that…
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Fast Forward International Criminal Court Will Not Prosecute Israel In Gaza Flotilla Incident
The International Criminal Court said it will not open a war crimes case against Israel in the Mavi Marmara incident. The Hague court on Thursday reportedly closed a preliminary investigation into the May 2010 incident in which nine Turkish passengers, including one U.S. citizen, were killed in clashes with Israeli commandos who had boarded the…
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Fast Forward ‘War Crimes’ Push Would End Peace Process, Benjamin Netanyahu Says
A Palestinian push to try Israeli officials for war crimes at a U.N. tribunal would end any chance of reaching a peace deal, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said. Netanyahu spoke to Army Radio on Friday, a day after the Palestinian Authority’s envoy to the United Nations said his government would join the International Criminal…
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