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Source: https://www.newsweek.com/international-criminal-court-flushes-its-credibility-opinion-1991966
The International Criminal Court Flushes Its Credibility
(Newsweek) Dan Perry - The International Criminal Court has been plunged into a crisis of its own making with its indictment of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant for alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity. It is a lesson about the dangers of overreach and dishonesty. The charges expose the ICC to accusations of selective justice and dangerous naivety about the realities of asymmetric warfare. The indictment ignores Hamas's strategy of completely embedding military infrastructure within civilian areas, knowing full well that any Israeli response to its Oct. 7 massacre would result in civilian casualties and simplistic international condemnation. The ICC has essentially validated a tactic that endangers civilians, encouraging terrorist organizations to replicate it in future conflicts. The writer was chief editor of the Associated Press in Europe, Africa and the Middle East.