After two statements by the International Criminal Court Prosecutor’s Office in recent days, including Monday, war crimes charges versus Israelis may be closer than ever.

Likewise, Hamas’s use of human shields may not be enough to protect Israelis in the eyes of the ICC.

This is a potential paradigm shift since for nearly 10 years, the ICC Prosecutor’s Office has focused its energies on preliminary jurisdictional questions, such as whether “Palestine” constituted a country which could give the court jurisdiction to probe Israel and Hamas.

[Be sure to read it all, but basically this is yet another extension of the uselessness of the United Nations when it comes to terrorists — even after 10/7. Is the ICC probing Hamas? Nope, but they want to prevent Israel from finishing the war Hamas has been waging for 16 years from Gaza through a bull**** insistence on ‘proof.’ The IDF has given several briefings in this current war alone showing how Hamas hides itself among civilian populations, including tunnel systems in civilian areas that Hamas brags about. In fact, Hamas doesn’t even deny that they use civilians as shields, nor do they deny that their rocket attacks over the last sixteen years target civilian population centers. Only the UN could achieve this level of moral idiocy — but unfortunately, as Bob notes, it actually matters. — Ed]