Last Wednesday, UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon announced that Palestine would become a member of the International Criminal Court on April 1. That same day, Sen. Rand Paul introduced legislation to cut off US aid to the Palestinian Authority— about $400 million a year—if the Palestinians don’t withdraw their application to join the ICC….
A proposed New Year’s Resolution: in 2015, let’s not punish the Palestinians for joining the International Criminal Court. No doubt some Members of Congress – presumably, the ones who aren’t busy resigning for felony tax evasion or defending themselves for schmoozing with white supremacists – will try to gin up an outrage festival and demand sanctions on the Palestinians for…
On Friday, Mahmoud Abbas – backed by more than 80% of Palestinian public opinion in the West Bank, Gaza, and East Jerusalem – formally requested full United Nations membership for Palestine. The logic of turning to the UN is straightforward: the U.S.-sponsored "peace process" – bilateral negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians under U.S. auspices…
Here is a question I would like pollsters to ask American voters about the Libya War: Is sending Qaddafi to the International Criminal Court a military objective worth having American troops "fight and possibly die" for? I haven’t seen any pollster ask this question. Indeed, the fact that sending Qaddafi to the Hague is a…