President Donald Trump has signed an executive order imposing sanctions on the International Criminal Court (ICC) based in The Hague. The order comes in response to the ICC's issuance of an arrest warrant for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant in May 2024.
Richard Goldberg, a former Trump official, argues that the sanctions are necessary to protect American soldiers and officials from potential prosecution by what he describes as an international kangaroo court. Goldberg, now a senior adviser at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, believes that the ICC has overstepped its bounds and is using international law as a tool of warfare against the United States and Israel.
