If Palestine joins the ICC, then what?

Certainly, not just a future possible intervention by the International Criminal Court, but already the Palestinian move to join the Rome Statute itself, may affect the conflict, very likely in a positive as well as in a negative way. The request may impair the peace process as is claimed by many opponents to the Palestinian bid. On a positive note, the ICC’s coming into play may change the way the conflict is carried out between the parties in such manner, that the opponents avoid the commission of further acts that falls under the Court’s jurisdiction.

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