Now, the ICC is an “international court” the way the food court at EPCOT Center is an international court. Which is why I think the ICC, which issued arrest warrants for Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, had the most to gain from Poland reneging on its “obligations.” Set aside the fact that the warrant is illegitimate because (for one) the ICC has no jurisdiction over Israel. Were the ICC to be the reason for the arrest of the leader of the Jewish state at Auschwitz—at Auschwitz, for Pete’s sake—it would be exposed as a threat to the democratic order and as a tool of the regimes that both deny the Holocaust and seek to repeat it.
Read the rest of Seth Mandel's essay in Commentary magazine.
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