Background

In the first week of May 2024, The US had to demonstrate to its chauvinistic allies that it can still lead them in running an apartheid global system where its camp operate above international law, while treating the rest as second-rate citizens. By April 30th and May 1st 2024, massive college protests spread across the US, where students demanded an end to Israeli genocide against Gaza (here, here and here), while, the US States Department’s deputy Spokesperson Vedant Patel stated that the International Criminal Court (ICC) lacked jurisdiction to prosecute Israel. Meanwhile, Washington was violently suppressing university students’ protests aimed at forcing it to reign on its proxy Israel to follow international law, including those in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR). Instead of granting students’ honorable demands, Washington was actively fighting any appearance of itself and Israel obeying the international law. The police diligently silenced students’ expression, while the media slandered protestors. These events show that the US ruling elite understand that calling for Israel to observe international law erodes Washington’s power to rally supremacist nations around itself as they pursue illegal acts against those that Washington wishes to dispossess, contain, or destroy.

Rule-based International Order

Washington’s ‘Rule-based international order’ masquerade is boiling down to its real essence of maintaining two tiers of nations in the world, the first comprising the US and its allies being above the international law and the second entailing the global majority, which Washington thinks it should dictate to. Vedant Patel’s statement that the ICC lacks Jurisdiction over Israel, but helps Washington in Ukraine and Darfur (here) reveals the court’s bias and explains why it has ignored Israel’s murder of 34000 Gazans so far. In this statement, Washington was forced to expose its auxiliary organizations that purport to stand for........

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