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29 Sep, 2011

Palestine in Criminal Court Triggers Western, Israeli Fears – IPS ipsnews.net

UNITED NATIONS, Sep 27, 2011 (IPS) – If Palestine fails to achieve full statehood recognition at the United Nations, the only other viable option is to get “enhanced” observer status with the 193-member General Assembly, the U.N.’s highest policy making body.

But that proposed new status has already triggered Israeli and Western fears that Palestinians may also logically win the right to haul the Jewish state before the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague on war crimes charges.

“If Israel is not going to commit any war crimes or violate international humanitarian law,” says Dr. Nabeel Shaath, a senior official of the Palestinian Authority (PA) and a former foreign minister, “it should have absolutely no reason to fear our membership with the ICC.”

via Palestine in Criminal Court Triggers Western, Israeli Fears – IPS ipsnews.net.