The strategy is famed. If you can't beat your opponents on the military field, or with facts, beat them with the law. The strategy is an axiom of the Palestinian Authority (P.A.).  Having finished the commemoration of the nakba (catastrophe) day on May 15, the day in 1948 when five Arab armies tried but failed to destroy the State of Israel created a few hours earlier, the P.A. is continuing the battle by the weapon of international law.  The foreign minister, Riyad Maliki, on May 22, 2018 at The Hague, called on the International Criminal Court (ICC) to open an "immediate investigation" into the alleged "crimes" committed by Israel against the Palestinian people.  The chief prosecutor at the ICC, Fatou Bensouda, a Gambian lawyer, has said she will take "any action warranted" to prosecute crimes. At the start, there are three problems.  The ICC has jurisdiction over allegations of international crimes of...(Read Full Article)