(Jerusalem Post) Prof. Eytan Gilboa - The ICC arrest warrants for Israeli leaders stem from the lawfare and diplomatic campaigns the Palestinians have been waging against Israel for the past two decades, and from the ICC's clear-cut anti-Israel bias. In light of the ongoing bias in the ICC's activity - which rejected all the Israeli claims before it, made a shocking parallel between Israel's leaders and the Hamas terrorist leaders, and after their assassination, did not see fit to indict any of their heirs - there is no room to cooperate with the Court, or to appeal the warrants before ICC's higher chamber. Israel should mount a worldwide, aggressive, delegitimization campaign against the ICC and its flawed practices, as it did in the struggle against the 1975 UN resolution that equated Zionism with racism. Israel should first produce a legal document that will refute every claim the prosecutor made, and the dubious and false "evidence" on which he relied. Based on this document, Israel should persuade states to suspend their membership in the Rome Statute that established the ICC, thereby exempting them from the obligation to detain Israelis; or alternatively, to announce, as Hungary did, that they had no intention of enforcing the orders. The writer is Professor Emeritus of Political Science and International Communication at Bar-Ilan University.
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