"Saying he is 'appalled and shocked' by the war-crimes accusations made by the International Criminal Court against Israel, Josh Reinstein, head of the Israel Allies Foundation (IAF) and the Knesset Christian Allies Caucus (CAC), noted that it is 'even more egregious since [the ICC] was started to stop atrocities like the Holocaust and rampant anti-Semitism.'
Instead, he said, it is now 'being used to demonize the one Jewish state in the Middle East.'
IAF brought together faith-based advocates and legislators from around the world on Tuesday for an online discussion of how representatives can lobby their governments to fight the recent decision by the ICC to investigate Israel for alleged war crimes...
Australian Parliament member Stuart Robert addressed the forum, saying his country 'does not consider Palestine to be a nation.'
'We do not consider it to have standing within the Treaty of Rome, and therefore, our stated view is that the ICC and the pretrial committee has zero jurisdiction to consider such a matter because Palestine does not exist,' he said...
European Union Parliament member Bert-Jan Ruissen said 'we stand shoulder to shoulder with Israel. We shall never be silent when we see Israel is being treated unfairly. We distance ourselves clearly from the ICC decision.'..."