ICC Punctures Myth That Israeli Leaders Are Above International Law

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David Hearst is the Editor of the Middle East Eye.

For 76 years, Israel had a narrative more robust as a protective shield than any Iron Dome. For the victims of the worst case of industrial killing in modern history, self-determination for post-Holocaust Jewry was not merely a necessity, this narrative went, it was a moral imperative. Any state that emerged was immune from judgement, the story went. Israel was beyond international law.It was allowed to have indeterminate borders. It was allowed to occupy.

But former Prime Minister Gordon Brown defended Livni, saying he “completely opposed” the warrant issued by a British court for her arrest for war crimes, and former Foreign Secretary David Miliband phoned his Israeli counterpart to apologise. Miliband said at the time of the 2009 incident that British law permitting judges to issue arrest warrants against foreign dignitaries “without any prior knowledge or advice by a prosecutor” had to be changed.Indeed it was.

Source: Law Daily Report (lawdailyreport.net)

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