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The United Kingdom started the ball rolling and has been followed by dozens of amicus curiae<\/em> \u2013 or \u2018friends of the court\u2019 \u2013 in a move that will considerably delay any decision by the International Criminal Court (ICC) judges on the issuance of arrest warrants in the Palestine situation. On July 22, more than 60 states, organisations and individuals were authorised to provide the court with legal analysis for and against further action. <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend\u201d, says an adage often attributed to Abraham Lincoln. On July 22, the judges in the International Criminal Court (ICC)\u2019s pre-trial chamber I issued<\/a> a list of more than 60 entities and individuals who have been allowed to submit their observations as amicus curiae<\/em> (\u2018friends of the court\u2019) on legal issues around the issuance of arrest warrants asked two months before<\/a> by the Prosecutor against the Israeli Prime Minister and Defence Minister alongside three leaders of Palestinian Hamas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is the first time that judges at the Hague court, after 22 years of existence, have allowed observations at this stage of legal proceedings. An \u201cunnecessary distraction from the core business of the pre-trial chamber at this stage\u201d says international lawyer Owiso Owiso. \u201cAll this could have been avoided had the [judges] had enough judicial fortitude to deny any request to file observations, on the grounds either that the question of jurisdiction had already been determined [on 5 February 2021<\/a>], or that any issues to be raised can appropriately be raised at a later stage!\u201d he told Justice Info by message.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Highest level of secrecy <\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Some of those allowed to file include the United States, US senator Lindsey Graham and retired Nazi hunters Serge and Beate Klarsfeld. Issuance of the full list of those allowed to provide arguments as amicus curiae<\/em> followed several weeks of increased speculation about what exactly was happening after the Prosecutor\u2019s coup d\u2019\u00e9clat<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the Palestine investigation, the judges have decided on the classification \u201csecret\u201d \u2013 an even more stringent stamp than the commonly applied \u201cunder seal\u201d for arrest warrants or more limited \u201cconfidential\u201d often applied to protect witness or state party sources, both of which designations also prevent the public from knowing what is happening behind the scenes. So even applying to the court to offer an analysis was classified \u201csecret\u201d, no matter what the applicant wished, confirmed the court spokesperson Fadi El Abdallah.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The judges have ordered that the amici<\/em>, to be filed until August 6, will be public. But until they are published, no-one is sharing their arguments following the judges\u2019 original \u201ckeep it secret\u201d ruling. First out of the blocks, on 29 July 2024<\/a>, is former professor of international law and author of The Genocide Convention: An International Law Analysis<\/em>, John Quigley.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cUK\u2019s move: a dishonest time-wasting exercise\u201d<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The avalanche of amicus<\/em> briefs was started by the United Kingdom, which asked the judges whether it could intervene on the narrow but important issue of whether under the Oslo accords, signed by the Palestine Liberation Organization in 1997 with Israel to establish the Palestinian Authority. The agreement includes a reference to Palestine having no jurisdiction over Israeli citizens. Seventeen years after, in 2014, Palestine first asked the ICC to accept its referral of war crimes and crimes against humanity allegedly committed by Israeli citizens. The ICC Office of the Prosecutor accepted the referral only after Palestine had become a state party of the court, and immediately asked the ICC judges to clarify jurisdiction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe UK\u2019s move was a dishonest time-wasting exercise,\u201d comments Owiso. \u201cThe UK knew, or ought to have known, that by filing such a request, the floodgates would open for other States and all manner of individuals\/organisations and busybodies to also file requests, either to (rightfully) counter the UK\u2019s arguments or to sneak in their own. Again, it is unnecessarily prolonging the process.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Finally\u2026 no amicus<\/em> from the United Kingdom<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

German law professor and practising UK barrister Stefan Talmon is more circumspect: \u201cIf you really take the view that the ICC jurisdiction is transferred jurisdiction [from Palestine], then the Oslo argument makes sense, and the court will have to deal with it.\u201d But Talmon also notes that the UK said, on July 26, that it will not be making a submission<\/a>, after a new Labour government has come in with a \u201cstrong background in human rights and international law. And they just take a different perspective\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to Mark Kersten, an assistant professor at the Canadian University of the Fraser Valley, \u201cyou\u2019ll see a couple of people who basically have just been tirelessly trying to prevent the court from exercising any kind of jurisdiction in Palestine. And I can name one, because he\u2019s Canadian and its former Justice Minister Irwin Cotler, who has written<\/a> what I regard to be misinformation that the ICC prosecutor has jurisdiction generally over Hamas but has no territorial jurisdiction, and therefore no personal jurisdiction over Israeli citizens. I assume that\u2019s what he\u2019s going to put forward in his filing, as the Raoul Wallenberg Centre.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cFor whatever reason, they want to carve out full blown impunity for one side of this conflict. I think that\u2019s deeply unfortunate,\u201d Kersten adds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Further delay for the warrants<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Victims\u2019 representatives have been excluded by the judges from joining in the amicus frenzy and told that they should use another procedure. In at least three submissions, they said they wanted to \u201cprovide reasons why these issues do not prevent and must not delay the issuing of warrants\u201d, adding that \u201cany delay in the proceedings before the Court exacerbates the victims\u2019 ongoing suffering, obstructs accountability, and unjustifiably delays justice for over two million people who are trapped in Gaza and at imminent risk of losing their life\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cVictims, some of whom are at death\u2019s doorstep in the Gaza Strip, simply cannot endure any further delay. The victims emphasise that any consideration of the issues raised by the United Kingdom [under the previous government] or by others is unwarranted under the Statute at this stage and will likely cause the victims\u2019 further harm.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Owiso points out that \u201cthe Prosecutor would still be called upon to respond to almost 70 observations, each about ten pages! Then the pre-trial chamber will have to wade through all that stuff before a determination can be made on the arrest warrant applications. That will certainly take time; time that the victims and survivors of the Israeli Defence Force and Hamas do not have!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But Talmon thinks otherwise: \u201cI don\u2019t think that the delay issue is really the crucial one. Because even if we had the arrest warrant tomorrow, nothing would change on the ground, and nobody would be arrested. And the policies of these people would not change because of that. So, the arrest warrants are something for the long run, something which will be with these people for the rest of their lives, basically.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What will be argued?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

It is difficult to know the substance of all the arguments of the applicants, that several contacted by Justice Info have politely refused to share.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The International Court of Justice (ICJ) has recently ruled, under an advisory option, that Israel\u2019s occupation of Palestinian territory is illegal<\/a>. Although the ICJ was dealing with different legal technicalities from those that now face the ICC judges, it is possible that some amicus<\/em> will use aspects of that ruling to bolster their arguments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Talmon points out that in 2021<\/a> the main decision by the judges was whether Palestine is a state party to the Rome Statute. But that is, he says, only one aspect of jurisdiction. \u201cNow, there are other aspects that could be revisited or visited for the first time,\u201d including the question of transfer of jurisdiction from Palestine to the ICC despite the Oslo agreement. \u201cOf course, an equally credible counter argument can be made on the basis of the Geneva Conventions,\u201d he continues, referring to how the ICJ judges referred to them to say that you cannot have an agreement to the detriment of the people in the occupied territory. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSo, I think the important thing is that the court will deal with the argument, will consider it, and hopefully then dismiss it, because, of course, I think the more credible argument is in favour of Palestine having jurisdiction to transfer it to the ICC,\u201d Talmon adds. \u201cMy view is that the judges want to base their decision on as broad a basis as possible and thereby gain maximum credibility by giving everybody a chance to contribute.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n

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