Yesterday, the International Criminal Court announced that it was issuing arrest warrants against Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his former defence minister Yoav Gallant on charges of crimes against humanity and war crimes. There is little likelihood of the arrest warrants being enforced, but the ICC’s credibility has taken a hit, perhaps a fatal one.
The arrest warrants came about as the result of a flawed process. The ICC’s chief prosecutor, the beleaguered British lawyer Karim A.A. Khan KC, who is currently being investigated by his own court for alleged sexual misconduct (he denies the allegations) set the tone when he convened a hand-picked “panel of experts” to advise him on whether to issue the warrants.
