Netanyahu touched down in Budapest on Wednesday and will spend four days in the country on a trip that is, at least in part, a demonstration of willful disobedience to the ICC’s demand that its member states arrest him if given the opportunity.
The Israeli prime minister is accused by the court of using “starvation as a method of warfare” and “intentionally directing an attack against the civilian population” among other crimes against humanity.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, and his Hungarian counterpart, Viktor Orban, right, chat as they attend a signing ceremony on Tuesday, July 18, 2017, in the Parliament building in Budapest, Hungary. (Balazs Mohai/MTI via AP)
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Hungary, a party to the Rome Statute that legitimizes the ICC, is obligated on paper
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