"This is not a fair court. Israel should ignore it and treat it as a hostile political entity, which it is”
Sounds melodramatic? It’s a plausible scenario for Israeli politicians and IDF officers — past and present — if the International Criminal Court (ICC) follows through on last week’s decision to probe Israel (and Hamas) for war crimes stemming from the IDF’s 2014 Operation Protective Edge.
The court’s decision reeks of hypocrisy. The date the judges selected as the starting point for their investigation is one day after the attack that precipitated the conflict — when Hamas terrorists kidnapped and murdered three yeshivah boys.
In doing so, the ICC has transparently rendered its verdict that the murders of three religious teenage boys by terrorists sworn to the destruction of Israel are not war crimes, but Israel’s legitimate pursuit of the perpetrators and their sponsors just might be.
“Hamas applauded the prosecutor’s decision,” said Eugene Kontorovich, head of the international law department at the Kohelet Policy Forum, a Jerusalem-based think tank. “It’s unprecedented for a terror organization to celebrate a judicial inquiry into its actions, so Hamas must be very skeptical that the prosecutor will be sincere about equally and vigorously pursuing both sides.”
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