Transcript [00:00] Hey everyone. So, over the last few [00:01] days, the Trump administration has hit [00:04] the International Criminal Court with a [00:06] new round of sanctions. This time going [00:09] after the court's own president. The [00:12] president of the ICC, a judge from Japan [00:14] named Tomoko Akane along with a senior [00:18] trial lawyer named Abdul Abdullay Se. [00:22] Their US assets are frozen. They can't [00:24] travel to the US. anyone who does [00:26] business with them is also exposed to [00:28] sanctions. And when you add this to [00:30] everything else that's happened in on [00:32] this issue in the last year and a half, [00:33] we're now at a point where nine of the [00:36] 18 judges on the International Criminal [00:39] Court plus both of its deputy [00:41] prosecutors are under US sanctions. So [00:45] what is this about this? Well, in short, [00:49] this is the US treating an international [00:51] court the way it treats a terror [00:53] financing network. They're all under [00:54] sanctions. So, in this video, I want to [00:56] do two things. First, I want to explain [00:59] where this actually started because this [01:01] is not uh this is in the headlines now, [01:04] but this did not begin last week or this [01:06] month or even in in this term of [01:09] Trump's. It it it goes all the way back [01:11] to 2020 to Trump's first term when he [01:15] signed the original executive order [01:16] about this issue. And there's a piece of [01:18] the story in between that no one's [01:21] talking about right now, but I think [01:22] should be talked about because it [01:23] explains a lot of what's happening right [01:25] now. And the second thing I want to do [01:27] is I want to explain why this is blowing [01:29] up specifically now in August 2026 [01:33] because the timing is not random. [01:35] There's a very specific chain of events [01:36] that got us here. And then well, I guess [01:39] I'm going to do a third thing. I'm also [01:40] going to I want to talk at the end of [01:42] this video about the whole concept of [01:44] these international courts and the UN [01:46] and global governance and all of that. [01:48] So, let's get into it. Here we go. Click [01:50] um quick clarification before we go [01:53] further because people mix this up [01:55] constantly. There are two courts sitting [01:58] in the HEG that get confused with each [02:00] other all the time. The International [02:02] Court of Justice is the one that handles [02:05] disputes between states. That's the [02:08] court where South Africa brought its [02:10] genocide case against Israel, for [02:12] example, back in December 2023. And that [02:15] case is technically still open right [02:17] now. Although, again, as we're going to [02:19] get into, these courts don't really have [02:20] jurisdiction. [02:22] The International Criminal Court, [02:24] different from the International Court [02:25] of Justice, the International Criminal [02:27] Court is a different institution. It [02:30] does not judge countries. It prosecutes [02:33] individual people for war crimes, crimes [02:36] against humanity and genocide. Okay, [02:39] that's the court that issues arrest [02:40] warrants like the ones for Netanyahu and [02:43] uh and Yov Galant, etc. That's the one [02:46] we're talking about today, the IC. So, [02:48] the United States has never joined the [02:49] ICC, never ratified the treaty that [02:52] created it. It's called the Rome [02:53] Statute. Israel hasn't joined it either. [02:56] And back in 2002, [02:59] Congress actually passed a law, the [03:01] American Service Members Protection Act, [03:04] that explicitly says that the US does [03:07] not recognize the IC's authority over [03:10] Americans. So, this fight has deep [03:12] roots, and I want to be precise about [03:14] what the US position actually is because [03:19] saying that they're suspicious of the [03:20] court or don't like the court is an [03:22] understatement. [03:24] the the the US position is that this [03:27] court is fake, that it it is a body [03:30] created by a treaty among a set of [03:33] countries and that it has no legitimate [03:36] authority whatsoever over the citizens [03:38] of a country that are not party to that [03:40] treaty. [03:42] Okay, this is not that they disagree [03:44] with the International Criminal Court. [03:45] They actually hold that it is completely [03:47] illegitimate. But here's where it gets [03:49] uh even more specific. In March 2020, [03:54] the March 2020, the IC announced that it [03:57] was opening an investigation into [03:59] alleged war crimes committed by American [04:02] forces in Afghanistan. [04:05] And Trump in his first term, [04:08] so he responded to this and he signed an [04:11] executive order, executive order 13928, [04:14] blocking property of certain persons [04:16] associated with the International [04:18] Criminal Court. [04:20] Okay. So that order, this executive [04:22] order authorized sanctions, asset [04:24] freezes, travel bans against ICC [04:27] officials involved in investigating or [04:29] prosecuting US personnel or the [04:32] personnel of American allies without [04:35] that country's consent. Hm. Who could we [04:38] be talking about? An American ally who [04:39] didn't sign on to the ICC who could be [04:42] accused of that court of war crimes. Hm. [04:44] I wonder who [clears throat] we're [04:45] talking about. [04:47] Look, the term allies meant Israel. The [04:50] order was written broadly enough to [04:52] cover both American troops and Israeli [04:54] and Israeli soldiers and Israeli [04:57] personnel. The administration's argument [05:00] at the time in 2020 was very [05:02] straightforward. The US never signed [05:04] onto this court. It never consented to [05:06] his jurisdiction. So any attempt by the [05:08] ICC to reach an American or an Israeli [05:11] person is just illegitimate. It's a [05:15] foreign court asserting power it was [05:17] never given. Like look, if if a bunch of [05:20] people get together and say, you know, [05:21] we're going to agree on uh some, you [05:23] know, method of settling disputes [05:24] between us [05:26] and then we and then there's someone who [05:28] is not part of our group and we say, [05:29] hey, you know, that we just point to him [05:31] and say that he's bound by the rules we [05:33] came up with. I It's just absurd. I [05:34] mean, do I have to explain why it's [05:36] absurd? Anyway, fast forward to 2021. [05:41] Biden comes in and this is the part of [05:44] the story that we should be talking [05:45] about a little bit now. [05:48] About 80 left-wing organizations, J [05:50] Street among them, groups funded through [05:53] Soros's Open Society Network. You know, [05:55] these groups, these left-wing [05:57] organizations, petitioned the the new [05:59] Biden administration [06:02] to rescend Trump's executive order. [06:05] So, what do you think happened? [06:09] April 2nd, 2021, Biden lifts Trump's [06:12] sanctions on international court [06:15] officials. That's right. Biden lifted [06:18] the he rescended the executive order. [06:21] Now, why would he do that? The executive [06:23] order was signed to protect American [06:25] soldiers who were going to be prosecuted [06:26] for what they did in Afghanistan. But [06:27] here's what happened next, and this is [06:29] the piece most people never connect. [06:31] With the sanctions gone, the ICC's new [06:34] prosecutor, a man by the name of Karim [06:36] Khan, remember that name. We're going to [06:38] get to him in a bit. Uh he's going to [06:40] come back into the plot later. So this [06:43] this new prosecutor of the ICC, he [06:46] reopened the Afghanistan investigation, [06:49] but he narrowed it to exclude American [06:52] personnel. We're only going to look at [06:54] uh war crimes in Afghanistan committed [06:55] by people from other countries. [06:59] Meaning all all investigations into [07:01] American personnel were dropped. And [07:03] there was a lot of whispering going on [07:05] at the time that Biden did this, that [07:07] this was actually a quidd proquo. It [07:09] smelled like a quidd proquo because it [07:12] would be very unpopular for Biden to [07:15] rescend the executive order if it means [07:18] that now American servicemen are exposed [07:21] to ICC prosecution. Why would he be [07:24] rescending that and allowing that [07:25] prosecution? So as soon as he rescended [07:28] it, the prosecu ostensibly the [07:30] Afghanistan file in the ICC resumes [07:34] under the new prosecutor, but it doesn't [07:36] involve investigating Americans. So it [07:38] looked like they dropped the Americans [07:39] out of it. But what that did was by [07:42] dropping the US sanctions which were [07:44] also protecting Israeli personnel, the [07:46] Israeli uh Israelis, Israeli soldiers, [07:49] Israeli personnel were now exposed to [07:52] ICC prosecution in a way that they [07:54] weren't before when they were they would [07:56] have been subject to uh sanctions by the [07:59] US. See, [08:02] and uh I wrote about this in the [08:03] Jerusalem Post [08:05] uh when the ICC brought charges [08:09] against Israeli personnel. And I made [08:12] the point that none of this would have [08:14] happened had Biden not had the Biden [08:16] administration not enabled it. [08:20] U in other words, the US got a pass in [08:23] this in this rescending of the executive [08:25] order and Israel didn't. Okay, let's [08:27] fast forward again to November 21st, [08:31] 2024. Okay, the what happens then? Where [08:35] am I up to? Uh, we're not there yet. [08:38] Okay. Um, we November 21st, 2024. [08:44] The ICC's pre-trial chamber rejects [08:47] Israel's challenge to its jurisdiction [08:49] and issues arrest warrants for Prime [08:52] Minister Netanyahu and then Defense [08:54] Minister Yav Galant alongside a warrant [08:58] for Kamas for Kamas's arrest. Actually, [09:00] I have that here. Here we go. IC issues [09:03] arrest warrants for Netanyahu Galant and [09:06] Kamas commander. That's it, right? [09:08] That's that's the headline I was looking [09:10] for. November 21st, 2024. So they issue [09:13] these arrest warrants with lovely [09:14] picture of uh of the Gaza coastline [09:16] there. [09:19] And uh so you're talking about the [09:22] sitting prime minister of Israel of a [09:24] democratic country who's now wanted by [09:26] this international criminal court, a [09:28] court that Israel never joined and never [09:30] consented to. And I've said this before [09:32] on this channel and on Israel 365 and [09:34] I'll say it again. Uh and and you all [09:37] know this, I'm sure. Israel in by any [09:39] honest measurement achieved the lowest [09:41] combatant to civilian casualty ratio of [09:43] any urban war in modern history. We let [09:46] more food into Gaza during the war than [09:48] the population needs to survive on. [09:49] That's all well documented. I wrote a [09:52] lengthy piece for Gatesstone Institute [09:54] about the starvation hoax narrative. You [09:56] could go look for that. Um but none of [10:00] that stopped the warrants because this [10:01] was never really about evidence. It was [10:03] about a legal body that had already [10:06] decided its conclusion. So Trump returns [10:09] to office in January 2025 and within [10:11] weeks in February, [10:15] what does he do? He reimposes the [10:17] sanctions. Here it is. This is from [10:19] February 6th, 2025, [10:22] imposing sanctions on the International [10:24] Criminal Court. So he brings them back. [10:27] He signs a new executive order that [10:30] reimposes and expands the sanctions on [10:32] the ICC. this time explicitly citing the [10:35] Netanyahu warrant as a trigger. Now, [10:37] unlike the the 2020 executive order, [10:40] this one is broader. It includes um so [10:43] it's asset freezes and travel bans not [10:46] just on IC leadership but on employees [10:49] of the ICC, anyone materially assisting [10:52] the court's work and their families. [10:55] Okay, so he ex he reinstates the [10:57] sanctions and he also makes them more [10:59] comprehensive. And over the following [11:02] months, sanctions get layered one at a [11:04] time. Judges, deputy prosecutors, staff. [11:08] It's a deliberate sustained campaign by [11:10] the Trump administration to pressure and [11:12] delegitimize [11:14] and sanction the ICC, everyone [11:17] associated with it. Then something [11:20] happens that has nothing to do with [11:21] Israel or the US directly, but it [11:23] changes everything. [11:25] So, in late 2024, so I'm actually [11:27] backtracking a little bit. In in late [11:30] 2024, [11:32] there were sexual misconduct allegations [11:36] that were brought against Kareem Khan, [11:38] the chief prosecutor. Oho. November [11:41] 11th, 2024, ICC announces investigation [11:43] into chief prosecutor. Okay, that's the [11:47] guy who was was uh issuing warrants for [11:50] Netanyahu's arrest. So, the UN oversight [11:53] body opens an investigation. Khan takes [11:56] a leave of absence in 2025. [12:01] Okay, he takes a leave of absence in [12:03] 2025. He hasn't been dismissed yet at [12:05] that point. The case grinds through the [12:07] court's internal dis disciplinary [12:09] process for over a year. And finally, on [12:12] July 24th, 2026, we're talking one month [12:16] ago, the International Criminal Court [12:18] dismisses Karim Khan. Okay. So that's [12:22] just last month. International criminal [12:24] court prosecutor Karim Khan dismissed. [12:30] Okay. They had a vote. 82 states out of [12:33] the 125 members of the ICC voted to [12:35] dismiss Karim Khan. They called it [12:37] serious misconduct and a serious breach [12:39] of duty. It was sexual impropriety. And [12:41] this is the guy who was positioning [12:43] himself as the arbiter of international [12:45] justice and they fired him. And this [12:47] matters for our story because it because [12:49] the Trump administration loved this and [12:51] Trump talked about it a bunch and uh [12:53] Secretary of State Secretary of State [12:55] Rubio talked about it and it matters [12:58] because [12:59] you know so the Trump administration was [13:02] handed a gift. [13:04] This Kareem Khan situation where the [13:06] chief prosecutor is dismissed for sexual [13:08] misconduct allowed the argument that [13:11] this court is is is a is a clown show [13:14] and is illegitimate to really [13:18] uh you know sink in, right? That it's [13:21] it's not clean and impartial [13:24] any that it's corrupt. Okay. July 2nd, [13:27] 2026, a few weeks before Khan was [13:30] removed, acting attorney general Todd [13:32] Blanch in the US, [13:35] um sent a letter. He said, oh, he sent [13:39] he issued a press release, but he he [13:40] sent a he sent a a letter to the [13:43] international criminal court to the [13:44] president of the international criminal [13:46] court. Justice Department rejects [13:47] international criminal court [13:48] jurisdiction over US persons even though [13:51] it was already uh that there were the [13:52] sanctions issued as an executive order [13:54] and there was a law on the books from [13:55] 2002. He issues a statement. He issues a [13:58] letter a formal notice to the ICC that [14:02] again that the that the Justice [14:04] Department rejects their jurisdiction uh [14:06] against over Americans entirely. Again, [14:08] not in a single case but entirely. [14:11] Blanch's language was blunt, that the [14:12] court had acted in an increasingly [14:14] lawless and illegitimate manner. [14:18] Okay. And then on August 18th and 19th, [14:22] that's just a few days ago, that's this [14:24] week, the sanctions hit the court's [14:27] president, Tomoko Akane, that's what I [14:28] opened the video with. And the senior [14:30] trial lawyer Abdullah See, Secretary of [14:34] State Rubio's justification was that the [14:36] court is corrupt and fatally [14:38] politicized. [14:40] uh and has exceeded its mandate, meaning [14:42] its mandate is only only over the [14:44] countries that accepted it. So the ICC's [14:47] response was that this is a flagrant [14:49] attack, [14:51] right? This is a flagrant attack against [14:52] its against the court's independence, [14:56] right? Of course it is. Yes, it's a it's [14:59] a flagrant attack against the course of [15:00] independence. The UN Secretary General's [15:02] office uh said Gutier, you know, [15:04] Gutirez, Secretary General said he's [15:06] seriously concerned and reaffirmed that [15:08] the UN sees the ICC as a pillar of [15:11] international criminal justice. Human [15:13] Rights Watch, which has now filed a [15:15] lawsuit challenging Trump's sanctions [15:18] campaign [15:20] called uh called Blanch's letter a naked [15:22] attempt to shield American and Israeli [15:25] officials implicated in serious crimes [15:28] from justice. So that's the shape of of [15:31] what's going on. One side says the court [15:33] has no legitimate authority over us and [15:35] it's proven itself to be politically [15:37] compromised and run by a bunch of, you [15:39] know, corrupt clowns and it's full of [15:42] scandals. The other side says no, this [15:44] is an attack on judicial independence, [15:46] you know, regardless of what's true [15:47] about any individual prosecutor's sexual [15:50] conduct. Fine. Now, I want to zoom out [15:53] because there's a bigger issue here. [15:55] There's a bigger idea that none of this [15:57] actually touches on, [snorts] [16:00] but it all relates to and this is what I [16:03] think matters most here. Okay, [16:07] ask yourself a basic question. Where [16:09] does any court, any government, any [16:13] institution of authority, where does it [16:15] get the right to bind you to its [16:18] authority? And the only honest answer is [16:21] consent. You elected the people who [16:23] wrote the law or you live under a [16:25] government whose authority you willingly [16:27] accept. That's what makes law binding on [16:30] a person. This this premise this goes [16:33] all the way back to the Bible. Even the [16:36] even the the giving of the Torah at [16:38] Sinai, God uh you know sought the [16:41] consent of the nation of Israel. I mean [16:44] you're only bound by law that you [16:46] consent to. That's the that's the [16:49] that's a basic principle. certainly a [16:51] principle of uh you know of western free [16:56] societies that's for sure. Anyway, the [16:58] ICC exists [17:00] because roughly 120 countries signed a [17:03] treaty, the Rome Statute, agreeing to [17:07] create it and to submit to it, right? [17:09] It's a club. These countries said, "We [17:11] want to create a court that binds us." [17:13] Great. Go for it. If you signed it, [17:15] you're bound by it. That's how treaties [17:17] work. It's a treaty. But the United [17:20] States is not part of that treaty. [17:21] Israel is not part of that treaty. They [17:23] never signed it. They're not part of it. [17:24] So by what possible legal or moral logic [17:27] does this court get to issue an arrest [17:28] warrant for an American soldier or for [17:31] the elected prime minister of Israel? [17:33] There's no legitimate answer to that [17:34] question. It's a group of countries [17:36] asserting power over people who never [17:38] agreed to be governed by them. That's [17:40] not international law. Okay? This isn't [17:43] about international law. The Geneva [17:44] Conventions or other things. No. Or the [17:46] UN. This is a claim of authority by this [17:49] institution in the HEG that a bunch of [17:51] people agreed to create [17:54] that has no consent behind it. That's [17:56] what I that's why I'm I'm saying like [17:58] you only [18:00] for a court to have authority over me, I [18:02] have to consent to their having [18:03] authority, [18:07] which is the problem with a lot of [18:09] illegitimate governments, right? [18:12] You see, here's what I think actually [18:14] exposes the whole thing. If the if the [18:17] International Criminal Court were [18:19] interested in prosecuting people who [18:20] commit crimes against humanity, [snorts] [18:23] you know, who who uh Yeah. If they [18:25] actually cared about crimes against [18:27] humanity, real crimes committed by [18:29] people who are ruling over other human [18:31] beings without their consent, why isn't [18:34] there a standing warrant out right now [18:37] for every dictator on Earth who rules [18:41] without consent of the people? Why isn't [18:42] there a standing criminal order out for [18:46] I don't know everyone who leads one of [18:49] the Muslim nations where there are [18:53] anti-apostasy laws and where uh you know [18:57] or or the ver or the Muslim states where [18:59] homosexuality is punishable by death [19:02] right like why why not I mean or or [19:04] anywhere where people are are just ruled [19:07] over by force without their consent [19:11] and that critic criticizing the [19:12] authorities can be punishable by death. [19:14] Like there's a lot of countries like [19:15] that in the world. Why isn't there why [19:18] aren't there arrest warrants out for all [19:19] these people? Aren't they are they not [19:21] you know are they not uh you know [19:24] committing crimes? [19:27] Where's the arrest warrant out for you [19:31] know for for Muhammad Bagger Galibbuff [19:33] the speaker of the house of of of the [19:35] regime in Tehran? [19:37] Maybe there is an arrest warrant out for [19:38] him. I don't know. [19:41] But you understand my point. What the [19:44] international criminal court? We're [19:45] going to prosecute crimes against [19:47] humanity [19:49] or for uh or for the nutcase running [19:52] North Korea. Is he under is he is he [19:55] going to be arrested [19:58] for the hutas and warlords ruling half a [20:00] dozen countries through pure terror with [20:03] populations that never consented to a [20:05] single day of that rule? I mean, there's [20:07] a lot of countries like that. Are there [20:09] arrest warrants out for all those [20:10] people? [20:12] Was there an arrest warrant out for [20:13] Maduro when he was when he was uh when [20:17] he was, you know, brutalizing all the [20:18] people of Venezuela? [20:22] These are textbook crimes against [20:24] humanity [20:26] happening right now. But the court's [20:29] energy, the actual warrants go toward [20:31] the democratically elected prime [20:32] minister of Israel, uh a country [20:35] defending itself in a war it did not [20:37] start. [20:40] So, [20:41] I I had a conversation on the Israel 365 [20:43] news channel a couple days ago. We were [20:45] doing a Q&A which I did with, you know, [20:47] with Aon with my producer here. We do [20:49] them uh every Wednesday. Not every [20:51] Wednesday, but most Wednesdays we do [20:52] these Q&A. We take questions from uh [20:55] comments on the YouTube videos from from [20:57] audience members and we answer questions [21:01] and and we got off on a discussion about [21:03] the United Nations. [21:06] And this isn't about the ICC per se, but [21:08] it's the same concept. So, we were [21:10] talking about the UN. [21:12] I think that the what I said about the [21:14] UN in that conversation applies to the [21:16] ICC too. So, here's what I said. [21:19] The entire concept behind the United [21:22] Nations is that any state gets a seat [21:26] and a vote no matter how the leaders of [21:29] that state, the government of that state [21:30] came to power. Right? So it doesn't [21:32] matter in the UN if you're a functioning [21:34] democracy with consent of the people or [21:37] you're a warlord who murdered everyone [21:40] on his way to the top and took the [21:42] presidential palace. Once you control a [21:45] flag and a border and call yourself a [21:47] head of state, even if it's a reign of [21:49] terror, you're a member state of the UN, [21:53] right? There's a lot of not there's a [21:55] lot of member states of the UN that are [21:56] not democracies [21:59] and the rulers do not rule by the [22:01] consent of their people and they're [22:04] given equal standing to every democracy [22:06] in the room as well. [22:09] Now, philosophically, morally, [22:11] ethically, that is absurd, but we just [22:15] like we've all been raised with it, so [22:16] we kind of accept it as a reality, but [22:18] like why is there any legitimacy to a [22:20] ruler who rules against the will of the [22:22] people? [22:26] And the fact that they're given this [22:28] legitimate seat at the table at the UN [22:31] gives this it it it laers them. It gives [22:35] them legitimacy as heads of state. [22:39] And again, everyone alive today pretty [22:41] much I mean everyone, you know, we've [22:46] all been raised with we've all grown up [22:47] with the UN. So we kind of take it as a [22:50] fat complete that there's this concept. [22:53] But I think that the ex the very [22:54] existence of the UN undermines [22:58] our ability to see clearly because of [23:02] this exact issue I'm raising here. You [23:04] see here's why. Let me put this into the [23:07] right words. Once the world gets used to [23:10] treating a mass murdering dictatorship [23:15] as just another member of the community [23:17] of nations sitting on committees and [23:19] voting, [23:22] it becomes psychologically much harder [23:24] to do the one thing that actually needs [23:26] to happen with real evil. That is to [23:29] defeat it, right? Not to negotiate with [23:31] it forever. [23:36] And I think that's part of why since the [23:39] UN was founded in the wake of World War [23:41] II that you cannot point to a single [23:44] genuinely evil regime that the West [23:46] actually finished off in a war. Right? [23:48] Every conflict just ends with some kind [23:50] of negotiated settlement that leaves the [23:52] bad actors in power. And the ICC, the [23:55] International Criminal Court, it's a [23:57] great name. It runs on the identical [23:59] logic as the UN. Now, it's not formerly [24:03] a UN body, but it's the same concept. [24:06] I mean, you even saw, you know, the UN [24:08] Secretary General defending the ICC [24:10] against what the US is doing. It's kind [24:12] of the same, and it's but it's built on [24:14] the same logic. And the logic is that a [24:17] collective of states [24:19] can manufacture authority over people [24:22] who never consented to that authority. [24:26] and that that manufactured authority can [24:29] then get treated as actual binding law. [24:32] Right? This is this is globalism. [24:36] And once you see that clearly, the [24:38] sanctions fight makes a lot more sense. [24:40] This is a serious fight. [24:43] This isn't just and it's certainly not [24:45] the Trump administration attacking the [24:47] rule of law or an independent judicial [24:49] institution. It's not a judicial [24:52] institution. [24:54] It's a club that a bunch of people chose [24:56] to join and now they're trying to impose [24:58] the rules that they've accepted for [25:00] themselves or the mandate they've [25:02] accepted for themselves in their little [25:03] club or big club in their club and [25:06] impose it on people who didn't join the [25:07] club. [25:10] The Trump administration is refusing to [25:13] pretend that the self-appointed club [25:15] gets to write law for people who didn't [25:17] join it. [25:19] So here's my read on why this is [25:20] happening now. [25:23] Because this isn't really one story. [25:25] It's a few stories converging at once. [25:28] You've got the unfinished business from [25:30] 2020 where Biden's team pulled back [25:33] sanctions under pressure from the [25:34] activist left in 2021. Sorry. Whether by [25:37] design or by consequence, leaving Israel [25:39] more exposed than before, which then set [25:41] the predicate for the ICC warrants [25:44] because they didn't have to worry about [25:45] the sanctions on it. [25:48] Now you've got the fallout from November [25:50] 2024 [25:52] when the [25:56] when the court used the power that the [26:00] US warned it would use against against [26:02] Netanyahu, right? You got that whole [26:04] story [26:09] and now you've got the Kareem Khan [26:11] scandal which just handed Washington the [26:15] clearest argument that this [26:17] institution's credibility problem is [26:19] real and is and that it's has it has [26:21] corrupt people at the top. And you put [26:23] all these things together and you get [26:26] what you're seeing is that the Trump [26:28] administration is not this isn't [26:31] reactive what they're doing. They are [26:33] making moves to permanently delegitimize [26:37] this fake court and this fake court's [26:40] claim to jurisdiction over Americans and [26:42] Israelis before the next warrant. They [26:45] want to make sure that everyone that no [26:47] one wants to work for these guys, that [26:49] everyone associated with them is scared [26:50] out of their minds and and just won't do [26:54] anything. [26:56] Okay, this is [27:01] again this is just like the UN. It's [27:03] international institutions claiming [27:05] moral and legal authority while their [27:08] own internal governance is is just it's [27:11] a bunch of criminals. [27:13] You have you have brutal dictators who [27:16] rule people. Imagine like I I come to a [27:17] country. I get a bunch of machine guns. [27:19] I get a bunch of guys. We kill off all [27:20] everyone. We declare ourselves rulers. [27:22] We rule by force. And now I walk into [27:25] the UN. and I'm a I'm a head of state [27:26] and I get a vote. I might even get on [27:29] the UN uh you know human rights council. [27:33] So whatever you think about the [27:34] individual sanctions or whatever you [27:36] think about Israel's conduct in Gaza and [27:39] what scrutiny it deserves that's that's [27:41] that's irrelevant. [27:44] The honest the question I am raising the [27:47] point I am making is does a a a body get [27:50] to govern people who never consented to [27:52] it just because enough other countries [27:54] agreed to create it. It's a court that [27:57] the US and Israel never joined. It just [28:00] fired its own chief prosecutor for [28:02] sexual misconduct [28:05] and now it wants to and it wants to [28:07] impose its authority over American and [28:09] Israeli citizens. Anyway, that's that's [28:11] the situation here. Um, and uh, yeah, [28:15] and before you go, uh, please make sure [28:17] that you check out, uh, [28:18] israel365action.com. [28:20] That's the organization I lead. 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