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Source: https://jcpa.org/article/the-clear-and-imminent-legal-danger-posed-to-israel-by-the-icc/
The Clear and Imminent Legal Danger Posed to Israel by the ICC
(Jerusalem Center for Foreign Affairs) Lt.-Col. (res.) Maurice Hirsch - The International Criminal Court (ICC) has proven itself to be a hostile and political body that has, without any legal grounds, already invented a non-existent "State of Palestine" and, claiming the jurisdiction to do so, has attempted to set its borders. The PLO's 2012 request for upgraded status in the UN and, after receiving such an upgrade, its subsequent accession to the ICC Statute in 2014, are fundamental breaches of the Oslo Accords. However, Israel chose to continue to implement the Accords, transferring to the PA over 107 billion shekels since 2010. The funds Israel transfers to the PA comprise 65% of its total income, thereby helping to fund the Palestinian legal assault on Israel. Should the ICC accede to the Prosecutor's request, Israel will have no choice but to abandon its decades of blindness to the Palestinian breaches of the Oslo Accords. First and foremost, Israel must announce that an ICC decision to issue arrest warrants will result, inter alia, in the immediate suspension of all transfers of funds to the PA, a suspension of all the privileges granted to the PLO/PA and its leadership pursuant to the Oslo Accords, and will give rise to the necessity to act to dismantle and replace the PA. The writer, Director of the Palestinian Authority Accountability Initiative at the Jerusalem Center, was director of the Military Prosecution in Judea and Samaria.