Palestinians walk in front of buildings destroyed by Israeli military forces in the northern Gaza Strip town of Beit Lahiya, Aug. 4, 2014. (Emad Nasser/Flash90)
The decision released by the International Criminal Court last Friday, which confirmed it could look into suspected war crimes committed by Israel and Palestinian groups in the occupied territories, may have been delivered by a panel of international judges, but it is very much an Israeli production.
In the universe occupied by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his propagandists, Israel’s road to The Hague is being nefariously paved in the immaculate halls of European governments, where activists and politicians bent on harming the world’s only Jewish state are hatching antisemitic plots, using international law as a cloak.