The Palestinians' Decision to Join the ICC Deserves Support | Human Rights Watch
Given Palestinian vulnerability to prosecution, the West's reaction
suggests an interest not in seeing impartial justice done but in keeping
Israelis out of the dock in The Hague. Yet the ICC is a court of last
resort. It is empowered to act only when national authorities have not.
So the easiest way for any government to avoid ICC prosecution of its
citizens is to conscientiously and credibly investigate and prosecute
alleged war crimes by its forces.
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, January 14, 2015.
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