Pinoy Pie

Davao City Rep. Paolo “Pulong” Duterte claimed in a statement posted Saturday, February 28 on his Facebook page that the International Criminal Court (ICC) has turned “blind, deaf, and mute” to events related to the military confrontation between Iran and the combined forces of the United States and Israel. “No emergency statements. No dramatic press briefings. No urgency to assert jurisdiction.”  He added this is similar to the tribunal dragging its feet on the situation in Palestine whose people “have endured mass killings, displacement, and the systematic destruction of civilian life. Entire families wiped out. Children buried under rubble.” “Yet the ICC hesitates, delays, and hides behind legal technicalities—while pretending to be the world’s court of last resort,” he noted.  According to him, the ICC’s alleged inaction on the situation in Palestine contrasts with how it “suddenly finds its voice, its urgency, and its manufactured moral courage” in the case of his fa...