Netanyahu: ‘The Prosecutor Should Be Concerned About His Status, He’s Really Turning the ICC into a Pariah Institution’

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NETANYAHU: "No, I'm not concerned about traveling. I’m not concerned at all about our status. I think that the prosecutor should be concerned about his status because he’s really turning the ICC into a pariah institution. People are just not gonna take it seriously. They see it as a politicized thing. I hope that the judges don’t turn — don’t confirm what he says, because that will make them into a kangaroo court. Israel is fighting a just war, not only ours, not only our war. We’re fighting the war of all democracies, because if democracies are now faced with a situation that after taking incredible efforts to get people out of harm's way, to supply humanitarian aid on a vast scale, if they’re told then they are hauled into the dock because the terrorists fighting them are using civilians as human shields, then others will do it again, and every democracy will be pulled into the dock. We are first, you’re next. Many people understand that. So that has to be stopped and that has to be resisted, and I can assure you the vast majority of Israelis and all responsible leaders in the world understand that this should be resisted."