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The decision to name these three and to link them to these crimes, I think it's not surprising,

notably absent from both sets of defendants or any charges at this point of genocide.

It's the Lawfair Podcast. I'm Scott R Anderson, General Counsel and Senior Editor here at Law Fair.

One could ask whether Khan would have felt moved to act publicly when he did if the United States

had more clearly and more forcefully tied weapons shipments, for example,

to concrete deliverables in terms of humanitarian aid and its distribution.

Today I'm joined by Schmend Kitener, professor at UC Davis School of Law and former counselor

on international law at the U.S. Department of State, to discuss the prosecutor for the

International Criminal Court's recent decision to seek arrest warrants for several senior figures involved in the election. for the So Sheman, we saw a pretty dramatic step happen today in the

International Criminal Court relating to the conflict in Gaza and that is of

course the first set of actions that could result in the

criminal prosecution of individuals involved both in the side of Hamas and on

Israel in that conflict. Before we dig into today's action though, let's give it a little historical context.

How did we arrive at this point that the International Criminal Court, the ICC,

is exercising jurisdiction or believes it can exercise jurisdiction over the

Gaza conflict and over the conduct that's at the root of the allegations here.

Well Scott is great to be with you and anytime you use the word, historical context in this

situation, you know, one wonders if you have to go back to biblical times, but I assume you have

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