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Letter: Court threatens U.S. sovereignty

Tuesday, July 16, 2002 | 8:56 a.m.

According to the July 7 commentary in the Sun by Yossi Klein Halevi, "Despair, isolation taking their toll in Israel":

"Almost every day the Israeli papers report another attempt to transform Israel into a pariah state -- like the recent statement by Swedish Foreign Minister Anna Lind accusing Israel of war crimes. Israel's attorney general, Elyakim Rubenstein, has warned that the new International Criminal Court about to open in the Hague could begin targeting Israelis for supposed war crimes, including the mere act of moving to a settlement or even a Jewish neighborhood in East Jerusalem."

The ICC statute claims that the ICC will have universal jurisdiction to try individuals charged with genocide, war crimes, crimes against humanity, and aggression, anywhere on Earth. This court would sound the death knell for national sovereignty, and for the freedoms associated with limited, constitutional government. Both Israel and the United States are affected by this.

A more appropriate name for the ICC would be the International Criminal Conspiracy or International Court of Criminals.

FRANK PELTESON

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