SATISH SHARMA - not just Rotigraphy.: The ICC is not a “kangaroo court.” It was created by treaty, the Rome Statute, which now binds 125 states, and its judges are elected by those states.

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The ICC is not a “kangaroo court.” It was created by treaty, the Rome Statute, which now binds 125 states, and its judges are elected by those states. The statement attacks Karim Khan personally, but Khan neither convicted Netanyahu nor issued the warrants. Under Article 58, a prosecutor may only seek an arrest warrant. Three independent judges must find reasonable grounds before one can issue.

On 21 November 2024, Pre-Trial Chamber I unanimously found reasonable grounds to believe Netanyahu bears criminal responsibility for starvation as a method of warfare, intentionally directing attacks against civilians, and the crimes against humanity of murder, persecution and other inhumane acts. That is the Court’s ruling, and attacks on Khan do nothing to change it.

Nor does the ICC stand alone. At the International Court of Justice, an entirely different court, Israel is the respondent in South Africa v. Israel under the 1948 Genocide Convention. The Court has issued three binding provisional-measures orders finding that the Palestinians’ rights under the Convention are plausible and directing Israel to prevent genocidal acts and permit humanitarian aid at scale. Its March 2024 order addressed famine conditions in Gaza directly. That is the same factual reality underlying the ICC’s starvation charge.

The claim that the ICC has “no jurisdiction over Israelis” is equally false. Article 12(2)(a) is territorial, not national. Palestine acceded to the Rome Statute in 2015, and crimes committed on the territory of a State Party fall within the Court’s jurisdiction regardless of the accused’s nationality. A foreign national who commits a crime on someone else’s soil is not immunised by his passport, and Netanyahu is no exception.

If Mayor Mamdani’s Law Department concludes that the city has a lawful basis to act on the ICC’s warrant, then New York should enforce the law. The same principle applies wherever Netanyahu travels.

In practical terms, that means countries whose airspace Netanyahu’s aircraft enters should require it to land and arrest him.

European countries that are parties to the Rome Statute are treaty-bound to cooperate fully with the ICC under Article 86 and, when the Court requests it, to comply with requests for the arrest and surrender of a person under Article 89(1). They are not free to treat an ICC arrest warrant as optional simply because the suspect is politically powerful.

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Prime Minister of Israel

@IsraeliPM

The Prime Minister’s Office:

The ICC is a kangaroo court that has no jurisdiction over Americans or Israelis. Its bogus arrest warrant against Prime Minister Netanyahu was issued by a disgraced former ICC Prosecutor, Karim Khan, a few days before allegations of sexual misconduct