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Expert: Threat to Israel from International Criminal Court Is Exaggerated
(Jerusalem Post) Yonah Jeremy Bob - Former Israel Foreign Ministry legal adviser Alan Baker told the Jerusalem Post that the threat posed to Israel by the International Criminal Court (ICC) has been exaggerated and is very unlikely to turn into anything concrete. He believes there is no chance the ICC will go after the settlement enterprise as war crimes because they do not meet the "gravity" requirement - meaning that the ICC was founded to go after genocide, not housing. "If [the ICC] wants to maintain its status of probing the most serious crimes as a whole, which threaten peace and security and threatened millions, can anyone genuinely say Israeli settlement activity meets those criteria?"