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The Palestinian ICC Gambit and the EU Call for a Return to Negotiations
(Jerusalem Post) Alan Baker - How can the Palestinians push for bringing Israeli leaders before the International Criminal Court (ICC), while at the same time intimating to the world their desire to resume negotiations with those same leaders? The person heading their ICC preparation committee is chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat. This begs the question: which Israelis does Erekat intend to negotiate with, if his aim is to have them all arrested for war crimes? If the Quartet and the international community genuinely intend to encourage the resumption of the negotiating process, they cannot at the same time sit idly by and give even an indirect green light to Abbas and Erekat in their attempts to delegitimize Israel and its leadership. The writer, former legal advisor of Israel's Foreign Ministry and former Israeli ambassador to Canada, is the resident international law expert at the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs.