It's Tuesday, May 28, 2024.

I'm Albert Moller, and this is the briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview.

Once again we have to begin this week in the international scene and once again we have to turn

to Israel in its battle against the terrorist group Hamas.

Once again we're talking about the action

of what is called an international criminal court,

but we're going to have to once again

look at this very carefully.

Just a matter of a few days ago,

we considered the fact that the body known as the international

criminal court located in the Hague, the chief prosecutor had indicated that he would be seeking

indictments, criminal indictments, against both the Prime Minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu,

and the nation's defense minister.

Now we talked at the time about the fact that the United States and Israel are not members of the International Criminal Court nor

signatories to the treaty that produced it. So in one sense that particular

action threatened and perhaps now undertaken by the International Criminal Court

is more of a bark than a bite, at least when it comes to the understanding of

both the United States and Israel when it comes to that body, the International Criminal Court.

But the big mischief here is the fact that there is a certain credibility attached in the

modern world to anything called the International Criminal Court.

And furthermore, many nations are signatories to the statute that produced it.

And so we are looking at the fact that there is a moral challenge presented here.

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