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

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[–] PyroNeurosis@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Not quite. In this case, Israel is asking the international community to let it investigate Netenyahu independently.

Not optimistic on any actual justice, but a legally sound argument.

[–] SmoothOperator@lemmy.world -2 points 1 month 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.

[–] Linkerbaan@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month 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.

[–] SmoothOperator@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month 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.