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Saying No to the World Court
By Micah Halpern

Thursday March 19, 2009

I've Been Thinking:

Amir Moussa, the head of the Arab League, is going against the International Court of Criminal Justice.

The ICC, also known as the World Court is the court that prosecutes war criminals.
The Court issued the arrest warrant for al Bashir last week.
The warrant was issued because of al Bashir's direct and indirect role in the murder of hundreds of thousands people in Darfur.

Al Bashir was to be arrested at an Arab League Summit expected to take place in Qatar at the end of March.
Moussa has rejected the request to arrest the Sudanese leader.
The hosts of the upcoming event in Qatar have also said publicly that they will not arrest al Bashir.
This leads to a very problematic situation.

Al Bashir is going to Qatar to plead his case and to make certain that he has broad support within the Arab world.
An Arab front united against the ICC and de facto supporting genocide and mass murder is not something the World Court expected.

The West needs to start to work its magic here.
The West needs to put its own united, collective, foot down.
The West needs to demand that the Arab world comply with the decision of the World Court.
Diplomatically, all it takes is rescinding al Bashir's invite to the Summit.
That way, the League and the Qatar hosts would be neither arresting al Bashir nor blatantly rejecting the arrest warrant.
That is the art of diplomacy.

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