US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has launched a campaign to dismantle the ICC. No it’s not satire: His announcement on Monday that international law hamstrings US foreign policy and poses an “intolerable threat to our sovereignty” kicked off Little Narco’s latest side quest: “to protect Benjamin Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant and others who are under consideration for indictment by the International Criminal Court as they perpetrate a genocide,” explains Craig Mokhiber, longtime human rights lawyer and former director of the New York Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights.

It’s all part of a larger effort “to dismantle not just the ICC, but the entire postwar World War II system of international law.

“The US and Israel — this axis that is cutting a bloody course across all of Western Asia, the Caribbean, Latin America — they’re trying to remove any final constraints on the exercise of their raw power. Part of that has been these broad-daylight violations of the highest rules of international law… not just to achieve the immediate ends in those cases, but to declare to the world that international law does not apply to them, and therefore is effectively dead.”
What are the real consequences of complacency for the 125 ICC states who are obliged to protect and defend the court? “They could take action, individually and collectively, to impose diplomatic and economic and other costs on the US for these sorts of activities. None of them have done so.”

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Rania Khalek , July 15, 2026

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