Sorry, Washington Post, The ICC Is Exactly The Right Venue To Hold Israel To Account

By Prem Thakker Photos: YouTube Screenshots\Wikimedia Commons It reads like satire. So perhaps we should file Sunday night’s Washington Post editorial board piece, indignantly responding to the International Criminal Court (ICC) issuing arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, under ‘Not The Onion.’ After all, this was the headline and subhead to their editorial, I kid you not:& The brutish honesty is almost admirable. In the eyes of the editorial board members of one of the West’s most esteemed newspapers, the ICC is obviously for Black and brown leaders (oh, and Vladimir Putin too). It’s not for the West and its allies.& & To make its case, the editorial board engaged in historical revisionism, non-sequiturs, and brazen dishonesty.& So let’s break it down, one ridiculous and disingenuous statement after another.& “The ICC is putting the elected leaders of a democratic country with its own independent judiciary in the same category as dictators and authoritarians who kill with impunity.”& Sorry, are they seriously suggesting that a democratically elected leader cannot commit war crimes? Are we supposed to forget that Adolf Hitler and the rest of the Nazi war criminals rose to power through ‘democratic’...