The International Criminal Court (ICC), which on Monday sought an arrest warrant for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, is the former workplace of Special Counsel Jack Smith, who is prosecuting former President Donald Trump.
As reported by Breitbart News, ICC Chief Prosecutor Karim Khan has accused Prime Minister Netanyahu, Israeli Defense Minister Yov Gallant, and Hamas of terrorism of all “war crimes” in the ongoing Gaza conflict. Requested warrants against three leaders.
The ICC has failed to distinguish between a democratically elected Israeli government with strong judicial powers that abide by international law and a terrorist organization that has launched a war without regard for the law.
The United States has long opposed the ICC’s efforts to prosecute American and Israeli soldiers and officials for crimes allegedly committed while fighting terrorists. Neither Israel nor the United States are parties to the ICC.
But Smith, who is pursuing Trump in two federal criminal cases related to the Capitol attack and document tampering, worked at the ICC before being appointed by Attorney General Merrick Garland.
Agence France-Presse stated in 2023:
He served as an investigator at the International Criminal Court in the Netherlands from 2008 to 2010, where he was responsible for overseeing classified investigations into foreign government officials regarding war crimes, genocide, and crimes against humanity.
His most high-profile work before the Trump investigation was at the Special Tribunal for Kosovo in The Hague, where he led the investigation and sentencing of war crimes committed in the Balkan republic during the 1990s war that tore apart Yugoslavia.
Smith We’re screwed In 2012, he convicted former presidential candidate John Edwards of violating campaign finance laws.
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