Re: Will the ICJ try Israel on charges of apartheid? MEMO in Conversation with Victor Kattan

“No it wouldn’t.”.

Ah, but it WOULD. It most assuredly would.

“The synopsis is based on law and accountability. IgnorantFookin’Twat!”

SUPPOSED to be so based; yes, quite so.

ICJ’s problem, however, is that — unlike as with a nation’s domestic courts, where jurisdiction is always presumed (by virtue of the country’s sovereignty), and which an imbecile like PresentCompany thus automatically takes for granted

international courts have only what jurisdiction is CONFERRED on them: by the willing, state parties to an action, if indeed the respective parties all ARE so willing — a question of consent likely to hinge on whether the present govt of a given state party believes it has reason to trust in that Court’s fundamental OBJECTIVITY & IMPARTIALITY (two qualities, btw, which are not identical).

So, in the absence of jurisdiction, such a Court has no authority to even HEAR a matter — let alone, presume to ‘RULE’ on it.

Not that such courts aren’t capable of breaking the rules, and hearing a matter anyway, notwithstanding the absence of the authority intrinsic to competent jurisdiction in the case.

After all, who’s going to ‘stop’ them?

ArrogantFookinTwit!

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