{"id":162089,"date":"2015-06-26T15:20:44","date_gmt":"2015-06-26T15:20:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=162089"},"modified":"2015-06-26T15:27:00","modified_gmt":"2015-06-26T15:27:00","slug":"obama-blatantly-protecting-israel-war-crime-charges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/latest-news\/obama-blatantly-protecting-israel-war-crime-charges\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama blatantly protecting Israel from justice for war crimes"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"item-text\">\n<p><strong>The Obama administration is \u201chamstrung\u201d by the Israel lobby into opposing a Palestinian bid to bring Israel to the International Criminal Court for war crimes in Gaza, says an investigative journalist.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cAIPAC (The American Israel Public Affairs Committee) clearly has total control of the US Congress at least through Obama\u2019s cabinet. Whether or not he is for or against it\u2026 he is going to be hamstrung to do anything about it,\u201d Shane Matthews, a writer and investigative journalist, said on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>He made the remarks in a phone interview with Press TV\u00a0when asked about the US opposition to a bid by the Palestinian Authority to prosecute Israel for war crimes in Gaza.<\/p>\n<p>Palestinian Authority Foreign Minister Riyad al-Maliki has submitted a dossier to the International Criminal Court (ICC), detailing Israeli war crimes in Gaza as well as its illegal settlement construction in the West Bank and East Jerusalem (al-Quds).<\/p>\n<p>The United States has \u201cmade clear that we oppose actions against Israel at the ICC as counterproductive,\u201d National Security Council spokesman Alistair Baskey said on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Matthews said those comments reflect the White House\u2019s position that \u201ccountries we agree with are allowed to prosecute for war crimes, but countries that we don\u2019t, or that Israel does not like, they are not allowed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2015\/06\/26\/417552\/US-Israel-war-crimes-ICC-criminal-court-justice-Barack-Obama-AIPAC-lobby-Palestine-Gaza\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Obama administration is \u201chamstrung\u201d by the Israel lobby into opposing a Palestinian bid to bring Israel to the International Criminal Court for war crimes in Gaza, says an investigative journalist. \u201cAIPAC (The American Israel Public Affairs Committee) clearly has total control of the US Congress at least through Obama\u2019s cabinet. Whether or not he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":162090,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487,18,1616],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-162089","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news","8":"category-latest-news","9":"category-usa-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162089\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/162090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}