David Singer: An amalgam of eight leaders trading insults and denigrating each other - whilst their parties have adopted policies that are totally irreconcilable on critical issues – is not the foundation for any stable Government – especially in Israel – whose enemies will become increasingly emboldened following the announcement of a cobbled-together Israeli Government comprising very different bedfellows.
Israel has announced that the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague has no authority to launch a war crimes investigation against the Jewish state.
The court’s ruling that it has jurisdiction to investigate Israel “poses no immediate threat” as international law does not recognize a state of Palestine, says Avichai Mandelblit.
The focus on Zionism as a supposedly racist and exclusionary political ideology will intensify, the UNHCR’s blacklist is expected to return and the ICC will continue its campaign against Israel, these as the anti-Israel and antisemitic trends for 2021 according to the International Legal Forum (ILF).
Palestinian Foreign Minister Riyad al-Malki clarifies P.A. “annulment” of Oslo Accords, stating the accords remain in effect until “Israel proceeds with annexation.”
The court is seeking to determine whether the P.A. nullification of agreements with Jerusalem and Washington affects its pending war-crimes case against Israel.
“While we are moving forward in new areas of hope and peace with our Arab neighbours, the ICC in The Hague has taken a step backwards,” says Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
The Israeli government has launched a public diplomacy campaign to discredit the legitimacy of the International Criminal Court’s (ICC) recent decision to start an inquiry into what the Palestinians call Israeli “war crimes” in the disputed territories.
