Karim Asad Ahmad Khan, the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, made headlines in 2024 when he authorized an arrest warrant against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, accusing him of war crimes in Gaza. It was the first time in history that the ICC had demanded the arrest of a duly elected democratic leader.
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The perverse irony of the ICC — whose slogan is, “Trying individuals for genocide, war crimes, crimes against humanity, and aggression” — targeting the world’s only Jewish state (and the lone democratic nation in its region) was chutzpah on steroids. Indeed, the ICC, the United Nations, and our entire system of international justice were created in the grim shadow of the Holocaust. And the “war crimes” that
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