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I wouldn’t want to be in the shoes of Karim Khan, the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court.
At least, not for now!
It is no news that he applied for arrest warrants for top leaders of Israel and Hamas for committing war crimes and crimes against humanity. It is no news also that the announcement has not gone down well in certain influential camps, neither has it gone down well with the subjects and their camps.
Israel and the Palestinians have been in a state of conflict since 1948 as a result of the United Nations Partition Plain for Palestine.
The war resulted in the expulsion of most Palestinian Arabs, the establishment of the State of Israel on most of the Mandates territory, and the control of the Gaza Strip and the West Bank by Egypt and Jordan respectively.
So many orher conflicts have occurred after that including the 1967 6-day war when Israel occupied the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.
So many lives have been lost, mostly Palestine, since the inception of the conflict. Although so many efforts has been made to resolve the conflict, none is yet to succeed.
The present one was precipitated when Hamas-led militant groups launched a surprise attack on Israel on 7 October, 2023. After the attack they seized some Israelis as hostages.
Of course, Israel had to act in self-defence.
However, it’s my belief that the Israeli defence amounted to an overkill. That’s because rather than looking for elements of Hamas that took part in the dastardly October act, Israeli security targeted every Palestinian. They embarked on an harvest of killing, maiming and rendering people homeless.
I would rather believe the proper thing is for the two nations to recognise each other as sovereign states under a two-state policy.
If we keep on looking into the history of who the proper land owner is, it might be an ill wind that would not blow anybody any good.
As for those fingered for committing crimes, I would believe the proper thing is to ask whether they did it or not!
