its a curious thing that israel is the only country in the world which you're not allowed to criticize. the international court was on a course to investigate isreal for war crimes until the behind the scenes action began. now its not clear what will happen next as israel, not a member of the world court system got the empire which also isn't a member of the court system, to get the legal individual who began the investigation replaced, by the individual presented here;

The election of Karim Khan, a British lawyer, as chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), has once more raised the spectre of “politicisation” in the organisation, as well as concerns about what the new appointment will mean for the probe into alleged Israeli and Hamas war crimes.

The 50-year-old, who had previously led a UN probe into crimes by the Islamic State group (IS) in Iraq, was elected by secret ballot on Friday after ICC member states failed to come to a consensus on a replacement for his predecessor, Fatou Bensouda.

The vote, which was unprecedented in the organisation’s 23-year history, saw Khan narrowly beat Ireland’s Fergal Gaynor.

There have been reports in Israel’s press that Israeli officials “supported Khan’s candidacy behind the scenes” and saw his election as a victory for Israel, despite the country not being a member of the ICC.

Khan is likely to feel particular political pressure from Israel after the ICC announced in early February that it had jurisdiction to investigate alleged war crimes by Israelis and Palestinians in the besieged Gaza Strip and the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem.

The ICC investigation was greenlit by Bensouda, and it is not yet clear what Khan’s stance on the probe will be.

“The new ICC chief prosecutor must ignore the inevitable political pressures to abandon any potential formal investigation into allegations of war crimes committed in the territories occupied in 1967 by any party,” Chris Doyle, director of the Council for Arab-British Understanding, told Middle East Eye.

“The issue should be determined on the basis of law and evidence. There is no evidence to indicate that Karim Khan will do anything but that.”

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