Modern Israel celebrates its 73rd birthday this week. Let me put my cards on the table: I’m not dispassionate when.
So, it should have been a moment of idealistic optimism when a half-century later, an “International Criminal Court” was created to purportedly provide some justice for the victims of war crimes and crimes against humanity.
And yet, the Jews remained the world’s boogeyman.
While negotiating the list of war crimes to be covered by the ICC, Arab states successfully altered the definition of the war crime of “transfer” originally designed to cover the types of mass deportations the Nazis used in World War II to try and include Jews building homes in Judea and Samaria, their ancient homeland, which has otherwise become known as the so-called “occupied” territories.
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