(Jerusalem Post) Lt.-Col. (res.) Maurice Hirsch - In order to issue arrest warrants against Israeli leaders, the International Criminal Court first had to admit an entity - the "State of Palestine" - that is not a real state. Then the court had to act beyond its legal power or authority and decide on the borders of the nonexistent state. The ICC prosecutor then needed to act on the baseless complaints of the Palestinians and adopt the narrative of the terrorists who led the Oct. 7 massacre and their supporters. The ICC was created to allay fears that the punishment of war criminals would be dependent, as had historically been the case, on which side won the war. The neutrality of the court stands at its very core. The court's repeated decisions to acquiesce to the Palestinian political weaponization of the court against Israel is a fundamental breach of the court's reason for being. The writer, Director of the Palestinian Authority Accountability Initiative at the Jerusalem Center for Foreign Affairs, was director of the Military Prosecution in Judea and Samaria.
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