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Obama hamstrung by Israel lobby on Palestinian bid at ICC: Analyst

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The Obama administration is “hamstrung” 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.

“AIPAC (The American Israel Public Affairs Committee) clearly has total control of the US Congress at least through Obama’s cabinet. Whether or not he is for or against it… he is going to be hamstrung to do anything about it,” Shane Matthews, a writer and investigative journalist, said on Friday.

He made the remarks in a phone interview with Press TV when asked about the US opposition to a bid by the Palestinian Authority to prosecute Israel for war crimes in Gaza.

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).

The United States has “made clear that we oppose actions against Israel at the ICC as counterproductive,” National Security Council spokesman Alistair Baskey said on Thursday.

Matthews said those comments reflect the White House’s position that “countries we agree with are allowed to prosecute for war crimes, but countries that we don’t, or that Israel does not like, they are not allowed.”

“It’s disingenuous and it’s also obviously a double standard in the way the ICC was basically going to be used,” he added.

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http://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2015/06/26/417552/US-Israel-war-crimes-ICC-criminal-court-justice-Barack-Obama-AIPAC-lobby-Palestine-Gaza

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