Pompeo to ICC: ‘We Do Not Believe the Palestinians Qualify as a Sovereign State’

Seven years after the U.N. General Assembly voted to upgrade the status of the Palestinian delegation from “non-member observer entity” to “non-member state,” the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court is arguing that as a result of that – purportedly non-binding – decision, the ICC has jurisdiction over alleged crimes committed in the territory in question. Read