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    3 months ago

    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.

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      3 months ago

      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.

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        3 months ago

        The ICC does not make the case that israel has a functional judicial system. The UN called it an Apartheids state already.

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          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.