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Press TV has conducted an interview with Jim W. Dean, managing editor of Veterans Today from Atlanta, about Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu asking US lawmakers to help his regime dodge war crime charges.

Press TV: Netanyahu seems a bit worried about this International Criminal Court bid that we are seeing being spearheaded by the Palestinians. Let us not forget this is being backed by calls by rights organizations like Amnesty International who have documented evidence of these war crimes. What do you make of this?

Dean: Well I think we are going to have the big fight that we have always wanted, because Netanyahu by doing this and putting a show on doing it publicly, he is showing that they are really afraid of this and they are trying to flex their muscles.

They are going to the deep well, which are the people in our Congress who have diplomatic immunity, so they can do things that other people could not do because in effect what he is asking the Congress to do is to aid and abet Israel getting away with these war crimes that they have been committing which basically is giving them the potential to continue to do these.

So this may be the big fight that we have really been looking for because it is August, we are really getting ready to go into the political season. The Israelis have basically said through AIPAC, ‘you all are going to get your cash now if you work for us,’ and I think we may be able to have something that we have never really been able to do: make this a political campaign issue in fall elections and bring on that the never-discussed public discussion here of political espionage on Capitol Hill by Israel - how much is enough, why is it allowed to go on, why does media never discuss it, and maybe it is time to really expose it.

Press TV: And very quickly if you can Mr. Dean, there are those who have expressed their apprehension over this bid saying that we have seen the US control over international bodies like the UN. What is to say that the ICC will not fall under the same pressure?

Dean: Well the ICC is just one venue but I am hoping that we are going to see multiple venues on this including not just Israel, but they have to attack also all of the supporters of Israel who have really enabled this.

So it has to be not just an ICC fight. It has to be a political fight in the US, France, Britain, all of those areas where they have very, very strong political espionage operations inside those countries. Both have to be destroyed at the same time. It is a two-front war.