the empire approves situational ethics with moves like this;

The Washington Post editors are trying to exceed the immense hypocrisy ‘western’ leaders usually display towards against the rest of the world.

The Post declares that the International Criminal Court is the wrong place to hold Israel, and its leaders, to account for war crimes.

Opinion – The International Criminal Court is not the venue to hold Israel to account (archived) – Washington Post
The ICC is needed to help resolve war crimes in Russia, Sudan, Myanmar. Targeting Israel makes that harder.

The argument the piece tries to make is irrelevant and has nothing to do with the courts judgment:

Israel is not a member of the ICC, and the warrants will have limited practical effect, except possibly preventing Mr. Netanyahu and Mr. Gallant from traveling to countries which have pledged to enforce it.

The war crimes Netanyahu and Gallant are accused of are happening Palestine, outside of Israel’s recognized borders. Palestine is a state party of the Rome Statute. The ICC thus has jurisdiction over what happens on its ground. The (im-)practicality of the court’s decision is not an argument against it.

But the arrest orders undermine the ICC’s credibility and give credence to accusations of hypocrisy and selective prosecution. The ICC is putting the elected leaders of a democratic country with its own independent judiciary in the same category as dictators and authoritarians who kill with impunity.

The prosecution and the pre-trial court have found a strong likelihood that Israel is committing war crimes and genocide. To not prosecute those crimes against Israeli citizens because the country claims(!) to be democratic and to have its own independent judiciary would be “hypocrisy and selective prosecution”.......more.......