ICC arrest warrant shrinks Netanyahu’s world

Member states are obliged to carry out the ICC’s arrest warrants. Non-members are not, so Netanyahu is not in any immediate danger of arrest.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu could have avoided the International Criminal Court arrest warrant simply by opening a credible investigation into his government’s conduct following the Hamas attacks of Oct. 7, 2023.UN photograph courtesy of Loey Felipe

Opinion

BY GWYNNE DYER

November 25, 2024

LONDON, U.K.—The indictment of Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former defence minister Yoav Gallant by the International Criminal Court on charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity in Gaza has triggered a great deal of public moralizing, both pro and c...

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