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Israel submits legal challenge to ICC warrants, arguing it should investigate itself (www.middleeasteye.net)

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[–] [email protected] -2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Indeed. The whole criticism of the ICC comes from the viewpoint that Israel has a functioning, independent judiciary able to sentence Netanyahu for war crimes, and therefore the ICC shouldn't intervene.

I have no idea if that is true, but the fact that it hasn't happened yet makes me feel like it might very well not be.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

The ICC does not make the case that israel has a functional judicial system. The UN called it an Apartheids state already.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

The US makes the case that Israel has a functioning judicial system, not the ICC. The ICC and the UN makes the opposite case, and correctly so, I would say.