Israel lobbies foreign powers to cut ICC funding
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4616182,00.html
Foreign Minister Lieberman vows 'to demand of our friends in Canada, in Australia and in Germany simply to stop funding ICC,' as Israel prepares for legal battle.
Israel is lobbying member-states of the International Criminal Court to cut funding for the tribunal in response to its launch of an inquiry into possible war crimes in the Palestinian territories, officials said on Sunday.
ICC prosecutors said on Friday they would examine "in full independence and impartiality" crimes that may have occurred since June 13 last year. This allows the court to delve into the war between Israel and Hamas militants in Gaza in July-August 2014 that killed more than 2,100 Palestinians and 70 Israelis.
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Israel, which like the United States does not belong to the ICC, hopes to dent funding for the court that is drawn from the 122 member-states in accordance with the size of their economies, Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman said on Sunday.
Funny, Israel doesn't belong to the ICC yet wants to deny others the right to it. What a woefully misguided policy.
Perhaps Israel should join the ICC, but what would it then do with all its illegal colonists squatting on Palestinian land?