.Israel’s federal government is involved that the International Crook Court Of Law (ICC) in The Hague will definitely provide arrest warrants against elderly Israeli representatives in connection with the war in Gaza. Those on trial could include Binyamin Netanyahu, Israel’s prime minister, members of his kitchen cabinet and also generals in the Israel Protection Troop. The ICC has certainly not mentioned it is looking at such an action.
Yet Mr Netanyahu felt the risk significant enough to state on April 30th that any kind of warrant “will be actually an indignation of historical percentages”. The ICC’s principal district attorney, Karim Khan, cautioned that threats to “strike back” against the courtroom could threaten its impartiality. On what premises would the ICC trouble such warrants, and also what will be the effects?