WASHINGTON POST: 'ICC IS NOT FOR ISRAEL'

The Washington Post editorial board recently published an article stating that the International Criminal Court (ICC) should not bother issuing arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his former defence minister for crimes against humanity and war crimes and should instead turn their focus on more suitable suspects from Russia, Sudan, Syria and Myanmar. 

The editorial board went on to mention that an arrest warrant for the man behind the ethnic cleansing in Gaza has limited practical effect and that the ICC is ‘putting the elected leaders of a democratic country with its own independent judiciary in the same category as dictators and authoritarians who kill with impunity.’ Most of the leaders prosecuted at the ICC have been non-white, leading many to say the Global North created the ICC to persecute the Global South.

Just as a reminder, Israel’s bombardment has killed at least 186,000 people as of early July, according to the Lancet medical journal. Read the article yourself and let us know your thoughts in the comments.

Sources:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/11/24/israel-hamas-gaza-icc-arrest-warrants-international-criminal-court

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(24)01169-3/fulltext

https://www.icc-cpi.int/defendants