Gol Kalev
WSJ, Dec. 5, 2024
“The ideological assault on Judaism is also a proxy for an assault on America. It aims to check U.S. military and economic might, by creating another global power base: “legal might.””
The International Criminal Court’s arrest warrants against Israeli officials are part of a rapidly expanding attempt to negate the idea of the Jewish state and through it the idea of Judaism. That, in turn, presents a strategic threat to the U.S.
The ICC’s targets aren’t only Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant. The court asserted that their purported crimes were committed “jointly with others,” and prosecutor Karim Ahmad Khan proclaimed in May: “My office will not hesitate to submit further applications for warrants of arrest.”
For months now the ICC and the International Court of Justice have been preparing the groundwork of potential mass arrests of Israeli Jews: Soldiers, civilians who support them, and the Jews living in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, whom the ICJ targeted in a July 19 advisory opinion. The mere threat of arrests could lead to a sort of economic siege of Jerusalem, as Israeli Jews would have to avoid traveling to or through countries that pledge to collaborate with the ICC.
The ICC isn’t targeting only the Jewish state. It has also threatened to investigate the U.S. for alleged war crimes in Iraq and Afghanistan. The ICC made clear with its warrants against Messrs. Netanyahu and Gallant that it would target political leaders of a Western democracy, a precedent it could apply to U.S. officials. Spain, Canada, Belgium and the Netherlands, among others, pledged compliance with ICC arrest warrants, saying they were obligated to do so by an international agreement. …SOURCE