The Muslim-controlled International Criminal Court in the Hague has issued arrest warrants for Israel’s Netanyahu and Gallant after indicting them both for war crimes that everyone knows didn’t happen, and a dozen nations, mostly European, say they would enforce these warrants if either person entered their country.
On the positive side, the USA has denounced this ICC action, but Canada, Italy, Ireland, Sweden, Norway, Jordan, Turkey, Switzerland, Spain and the Netherlands, plus a few others, would enforce it as well and the EU policy chief called on all members to enforce it.
There was a time when the ICC was respected, when only true criminals went before the court. The purpose of the ICC was to try those people for their crimes when their own governments would not, but now it’s corrupted and decayed into nothing more than a tool by Islamists to attack those they hate.
The ICC has no power of itself to arrest or imprison anyone, they rely on member states for this, if anyone they’ve indicted should enter a member state. Instead they’ve succeeded in exposing those nations governments who would act against Israel. More may join them, under pressure by the EU, from others or by OPEC threatening to withhold oil from them or increase the price of it.
This may not seem like a big threat to Israel but it can turn into a very big one and it bears watching as the Mideast becomes increasingly unstable.