Courting Disaster          

What are the likely repercussions of the ICC’s decision to request arrest warrants for Prime Minister Netanyahu? What measures must Israel take to counter the growing number of countries looking to make it and their prime ministers into pariahs? Will Donald Trump arrest that trend when he takes office? And how did the ICC outfox the Biden administration and a bipartisan group of senators who tried to spare Israel from the brunt of their trumped-up charges?

Lieutenant Colonel Ori Egoz of the IDF reserves had eyewitness experience as head of the legal team in the Southern Command when officers would choose enemy targets to attack in Gaza.

During Operation Protective Edge in 2014, Egoz was on duty when terrorists fired at IDF tanks from positions inside a UNRWA school. An IDF commander noticed something that caused him to hold his return fire.

“You know what the terrorists did?” Egoz said. “They took two kids, about six, and tied them with rope onto two missile batteries that were shooting against the tanks. I saw it with my own eyes. They kept shooting at us this way for three hours until another [IDF] unit came from the back to surprise the terrorists. We did everything we could not to harm those kids, even though we could have been harming the lives of our soldiers.”