Comments on: The ICC Prosecutor’s Request for Warrants https://lettersblogatory.com/2024/05/20/the-icc-prosecutors-request-for-warrants/ The Blog of International Judicial Assistance Sat, 09 Nov 2024 17:15:42 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: The ICJ Makes Peace Harder | Letters Blogatory https://lettersblogatory.com/2024/05/20/the-icc-prosecutors-request-for-warrants/#comment-16546 Mon, 22 Jul 2024 20:26:15 +0000 https://lettersblogatory.com/?p=32963#comment-16546 […] pirates, my post on the ICJ’s decision of provisional measures in the South Africa case, and my post on the ICC prosecutor’s decision to draw an equivalence between his charges against the […]

]]> By: Ted Folkman https://lettersblogatory.com/2024/05/20/the-icc-prosecutors-request-for-warrants/#comment-13891 Tue, 21 May 2024 11:15:27 +0000 https://lettersblogatory.com/?p=32963#comment-13891 In reply to Salem.

Salem, I sincerely hope that’s not the answer, though I fear it may be. If it is, that’s the kind of casuistry that to me draws the whole enterprise into disrepute.

]]> By: Salem https://lettersblogatory.com/2024/05/20/the-icc-prosecutors-request-for-warrants/#comment-13889 Tue, 21 May 2024 06:26:52 +0000 https://lettersblogatory.com/?p=32963#comment-13889 Palestine is a (partially-recognised) state, but Gaza is not, and the recognised government of Palestine is the PA, not Hamas. I would imagine that is the rationale, although I do not know how these laws have been applied to non-state actors with persistent territorial control. It certainly seems unsatisfactory if breakaway groups, rebels, unrecognised states, etc, can wage aggressive war with no recourse under international law.

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