Could Israel's leaders really face justice for some of the worst crimes committed in the 21st century?

Now there's increasing chatter that the International Criminal Court will issue arrest warrants

for both Israel's leaders and Hamas leaders for war crimes.

Now some might find this just impossible to believe given the level of impunity which Israel

has long been given, but that unity has been falling apart in real time for

the last few months. Now it's extremely clear that, first of all, Benjamin Netanyahu,

the blood-soaked Prime Minister of Israel, believes that such an arrest warrant is imminent.

On the 26th of April, he tweeted out, under my leadership, Israel will never accept any

attempt by the ICC to undermine its inherent right of self-defense.

The threats of Caesar soldiers and officials of the Middle East, only democracy in the world's

only Jewish state is outrageous.

We will not bow to it. Israel will continue to

wage to victory our just war against genocide or terrorists and we will never stop

defending ourselves. While the ICC will not affect Israel's actions, it would

set a dangerous precedent that threatens

the soldiers and officials of all democracies fighting savage terrorism and wanton

aggression. Now if you want a concise distillation of these words, it's rattled, very rattled.

The prospect of arrest warrants has absolutely nothing to do with the fact that Israel declares itself

a Jewish state and as for democracy,

well there was no democracy experienced by the Palestinians subjected to its brutal occupation.

It has everything to do with the obscene crimes committed of course by the Israeli states.

Now in terms of what that means for other states it just means that they are less likely to commit

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