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Palestinian Moves to Join ICC Have Nothing to Do with Justice
(The Australian) Einat Wilf - Recent Palestinian moves to join the International Criminal Court are one more step in the decades-long campaign to vilify Israel. It is a direct continuation of the "placard strategy" of anti-Israel activism, whereby Israel and Zionism are equated with colonialism, apartheid, ethnic cleansing and genocide. These words are not chosen because they somehow reflect reality, but because they are universally considered evil. The effect of the continuous repeating of Zionism/Israel = Evil is to create an intellectual environment in which physically ridding the world of Israel would be considered desirable, even noble. The purpose of the Palestinian moves in the ICC is to achieve an officially sanctioned international consensus that Israel is a war criminal country. As such, the resulting implication is that its entire existence is illegitimate. Israel's concerns are not about being "found out," but rather about the failure of the UN and international system of human rights to give Israel a fair trial. There is no justice for Israel in the UN. There is definitely no justice for Israel in the Human Rights Council. And there will be no justice for Israel in the ICC. Israel is concerned because it knows that no matter what it does, it will be found guilty. The tragic irony is that much of the UN and its system of human rights was created to counter the darkness of the Holocaust, then grossly misinterpreted and abused against the world's only Jewish state. The writer is a senior fellow with the Jewish People Policy Institute and an adjunct fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy.