Legal Affairs
The International Court of Justice is about to issue a nonbinding opinion on Jerusalem, Judea and Samaria.
By singling out the Israeli leadership for war crimes, the ICC may be giving a blank check to rogue actors like Hamas as well as rogue states like Russia, Iran or North Korea.
Israel had reportedly hoped a British government challenge to the ICC would block the warrants.
A letter signed by 24 representatives warned that “the United States may need to reassess its partnership with Turkey.”
Ahead of the visit, the office of Keir Starmer’s new foreign secretary disputes British media reports claiming the U.K. will reverse Sunak’s policy on ICC warrants against Israeli leaders.
PM Starmer affirms his belief in the Palestinians’ “undeniable right to a state.”
Karim Khan, the International Criminal Court prosecutor, “deceived and lied” to Washington and London, “undermining the entire court,” says human-rights lawyer Arsen Ostrovsky.
“I’m a black guy in the middle of the night breaking into cars, and I found myself standing in front of a dead white woman,” Michael Jackson-Bolanos told the court.
The prosecution presented Michael Jackson-Bolanos’s video interrogation during the ongoing trial.
Israeli forces may only target those who are also operatives of Hamas’s military wing, or who pose a threat to Israeli forces.
There is a need to adapt the rules to the conflict scenarios of today’s world.
The legendary physicist would go on to call the correspondence “the one great mistake in my life.”
