Opinion: The following article is commentary and its views are solely those of the author.
There is an old saying that extreme cases make bad law and that is mostly the case. Regarding policy though, sometimes it takes a disaster to shake people out of their mindset. Regarding the absurdly named International Criminal Court, or The Hague, as we like to call it, we have to admit that the recent decision to issue arrest warrants to Israel’s Prime Minister and ex-Defense Minister should be one of those decisions that will push the civilized world to correct its self-righteous post-Holocaust decision to create that court.
What better way to make amends for the crimes of Europe, they thought way back when, than to judge, honestly and fairly all such “crimes against humanity” that happen in the world?
How much better the guilty Europeans will feel when they bring the less civilized to trial in their palatial courtrooms, especially as they will train the non-European judges themselves in the fineries of “human rights law”? The next Hitlers of the world will never be able to do their dastardly deeds since the civilized world will deter them with lawyers in fancy wigs and robes. Just look at all the tyrants and mass murderers who have been deterred over the past 70 years. The people of Cambodia, Rwanda, Sudan and Biafra (remember that?) thank their betters in European capitals. The Bangladeshis, too.
I am sure that those men, women and children in Darfur have an annual party celebrating the brave men and women in wigs who sit in the Hague, for saving their lives. We understand that the hundred’s of thousands of women and girls in the Congo who have been raped (many multiple times) give a prayer of thanks to the judges in the ICC for saving them from their next rape, since the rapists have certainly been deterred by the brilliant legal analysis done in the Hague.
With the issuing of arrest warrants for Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and ex-Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, the ICC has done a great deed for all the suffering women in Congo and families in Sudan, to say nothing of all those hundreds of thousands of Syrians who have been killed or made homeless by the Syrian regime and their Russian, Iranian and Lebanese helpers. The young Iranian women who have been jailed for showing their hair and the Uighurs in China who are right now in concentration camps are now in a better place since Netanyahu and Gallant will be hunted down and shackled to be judged by the robed and wigged in The Hague.
But most important, all those European Jew haters, those of Marxist, Jihadist, Aristocratic or Nazi bent no longer must feel guilty for killing Jews. They have learned the lessons of the Holocaust very well – the lessons taught by the enablers of the perpetrators in the universities, courtrooms and media outlets.
What can the civilized world do to make sure that the wonderful gains the ICC in The Hague don’t disappear? Make the ICC disappear. There is nothing so satisfying for those of us who love truth and justice than ridding the world of another symbol of global hypocrisy and self-righteousness. I can assure you that those that actually suffer from mass murder and rape will not be worse off.
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