Karim Khan, the Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court is a British lawyer and firmly an Establishment figure, even if Dominic Raab initially refused to back him for the role, until everyone else had.
Even so he has a job to do and he has clearly noticed that the activities of Israel since October 2023 have made it increasingly difficult to do so. He has asked for an arrest warrant to be issued for Netanyahu and consulted a wide range of legal expertise before doing so.
In an interview with the Sunday Times (26th May) he underlined why the Rules Based International Order is in trouble:
..the world is looking at this situation. In Latin America, Africa and Asia they are seeing this as a crystallising point. Are powerful states sincere when they say there’s a body of law or is this rules-based system all simply a tool of NATO and a post-colonial with no real intention of applying law equally
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