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The International Criminal Court (ICC) has ruled: Israelis can be prosecuted for possible human rights crimes in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip in The Hague.

The joy of many over the decision is irritating, because apparently it is not about checking the facts, but rather the prospect that the Jew could finally soon be driven through the village.

The factual examination shows that the frozen conflict between Israel and the Palestinians repeatedly leads to violence and violations of the rules of the game in international conflicts.

As unfortunately always in such conflicts.

The violence almost always arises because the Palestinian side would like to see Israel disappear from the map, but there are also unacceptable misconduct on the Israeli side.

So it needs the international criminal court?

No, it's not that simple.

Only 60 percent of the states have signed up to submit to the rulings of the ICC, which anyway only come into effect in the absence of or inadequate national jurisdiction.

Israel did not sign the agreement amid the Palestinian terrorism of the 1990s.

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Actually, only existing states can join this agreement - actually.

In the "Palestine" case, the criminal court has already anticipated what the goal of a solution negotiated directly between Israel and the Palestinians should be.

He has accepted the (so far) non-existent state of "Palestine" as a member.

Internationalization harms the Palestinians

For the Palestinians, this is at first glance a stage victory, after all, due to a lack of direct willingness to negotiate, they have long been working on internationalizing the conflict.

Proof of this are, among other things, the anti-Israel UN resolutions, which in their absurdity can hardly be surpassed and which repeatedly give the strong anti-Israeli front cause for mutual pat on the back.

On closer inspection, however, internationalization is damaging the Palestinian cause.

The de facto recognition of “Palestine” by the ICC confirms those Palestinian forces who delay negotiations and promote violence.

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It is said that schadenfreude is the greatest joy, and we experience such schadenfreude in view of the ICC decision.

Many media bring the news to their news mix between corona horror and snow hell in the semantics "and now something good".

If, for years, parts of the public have been bothered only pro forma by the fact that the terrorist organization Hamas is committing human rights crimes en masse in Gaza and the Palestinian Authority openly promotes terror, then a sigh of relief that Israelis could now be in the international dock is more than a lie.

The author is the chairman of the Value Initiative - Jewish-German Positions eV The association sees itself as the civil society voice of Jewish citizens.