Alan Baker, Jerusalem Post, Apr. 30, 2024
Anyone familiar with the International Criminal Court (ICC) and with the noble aims and purposes set out in its 1998 Rome Statute, can only balk at the way in which the ICC, intended by its founders to be a completely independent and superior international judicial body, has been simply hijacked, politicized, abused and to all intents and purposes ruined.
The ICC prosecutor’s reported intention to issue warrants for the arrest of Israel ‘s senior governmental and security personnel is perhaps the straw that has broken the camel’s back.
From the very establishment of the court, Arab and Palestinian leaders have eyed the ICC as a potential target for their struggle to undermine the legitimacy of Israel, this in addition to the various UN bodies that they have already politicized and ruined. …SOURCE