(Audio) Prof. Sabel: Palestinian State Would Not Join International Criminal
Court To Avoid Exposing Palestinians To Prosecution

Dr. Aaron Lerner - IMRA 25 September 2011

For the audio:

http://youtu.be/4q_eSQKF74M

Hebrew University International Law Professor Robbie Sabel
(Former Legal Adviser Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs)
On Israel Radio Middle East Magazine 25 September 2011

Question: Would Palestinian state join the International Criminal Court?

Answer: Doubtful. Because the moment a state joins, assume Palestine
joins, this means that every Palestinian citizens who carries out a war
crime in the future expect to be subject to the authority of the court. For
this reason, by the way, Lebanon didn’t join, Syria didn’t join, Egypt didn’t
join, nor Saudi Arabia. Why? Because they don’t want their citizens to be
subject to it. Since shooting at civilians is considered a war crime I don’t
assume that the Hamas partner of the PA would be so happy with joining the
Court.