Friday, November 22, 2024

The international system is broken beyond repair

The announcement by the International Criminal Court on Thursday that it is issuing international arrest warrants against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant indicates that the bottom has fallen out of the international system. The institutions formed in the wake of World War II to create and preserve a liberal, international rules-based order never worked the way they were supposed to work.

 But today, they are no longer simply feckless, corrupt and dysfunctional. They are malign and dangerous. Rather than advance freedom, human rights and life, they serve tyranny, terror and murder. The system is beyond repair. (Read More)