The Ledger A Home on Qeshm. No Court to Say So. The NYT confirmed a precision-guided 2,000-pound bomb hit a family home on Qeshm, killing a couple and their two-year-old. No military target was found nearby. Trump confirmed the ICC campaign defends Netanyahu. The court that examines this is being taken apart. 3 min read
Analysis Prosecutor Down 82 ICC member states voted to remove Karim Khan. 13 voted against. 15 abstained. A judicial panel had cleared him. The Netanyahu arrest warrant he issued sits unexecuted. His deputy who now leads the office is under US sanctions. Whether the removal was justice or politics, the outcome is the same. 6 min read
Analysis Lemkin's Funeral Raphael Lemkin coined genocide in 1944, got it into law in 1948, and died with seven people at his funeral in 1959. The ICJ's 15-2 order in South Africa v Israel proves he built something precise enough to apply — and a world too compromised to apply it. He built it anyway. 7 min read
Analysis The Court They Built and Then Broke Three ICC judges sued Trump in Manhattan. Two Indian jurists documented genocide across two courts. The US helped draft the Rome Statute. It declared the court it helped build a national emergency. 7 min read
The Ledger The Financial Death Penalty Three ICC judges — from Canada, Uganda and Benin — filed the first lawsuit by sitting ICC judges against the Trump administration. A judge from Benin cannot use her credit card. The US helped draft the Rome Statute. It declared the court it helped build a national emergency. 2 min read
Analysis The Master Is Here. He Must Be Punished. Ben-Gvir films the spectacle and administers the system. Nuremberg hanged Streicher for the propaganda and Pohl for the administration. Ben-Gvir is both. Washington funds his government. The master is in his cabinet. The court is in The Hague. 6 min read
Analysis The Nuremberg Paradox Netanyahu attended a state dinner in Budapest under an active ICC arrest warrant. Hungary withdrew from the court. He flew home. The warrant is real. The enforcement is not. It is working as the powerful designed it to work. Eighty years of Jewish history makes that truth unbearable to confront. 9 min read