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Source: https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-830158
ICC Decision Has Disrupted the Whole System of International Justice
(Jerusalem Post) Yigal Palmor interviewed by Mathilda Heller - The ICC's issuance of arrest warrants for Benjamin Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant is a "date that will live in infamy," former Israeli diplomat and former foreign ministry official Yigal Palmor said Thursday. "Not only has the ICC issued arrest warrants, in its communique, it has also determined guilt. The guilt of Netanyahu and Gallant is presented as an established fact." With such an establishment of guilt, there is no need for any legal process. "The ICC is not seeking to arrest suspects for their involvement in alleged crimes, it has determined that the crimes have been committed, and that they were committed by these specific individuals." The warrants cross a line that was "very clear and agreed upon since day one: the line that separates democratic regimes - where the justice system is more or less independent - and the non-democratic regimes - where the justice system is dependent on international intervention.... Now they have erased that line altogether. Everything is permitted now." The ruling means everyone could now sue everyone else. "If you dislike the principles of a certain government, you are now permitted to intervene from the outside, essentially trespassing a country's sovereignty," he said. "The independence of a local justice system will count for nothing." The "thoughtless, clueless" decision has disrupted the whole system of international justice, Palmor stated, "destroying and obliterating the founding principles of the ICC."