International Law Analyst

David Benjamin

1 article 2011

David Benjamin is a legal and international affairs analyst who contributed to The Weekly Standard in 2011. He wrote about the intersection of Palestinian statehood efforts and International Criminal Court jurisdiction.

The Palestinian Bid for Statehood and ICC Jurisdiction

September 19, 2011 · Israel, Blog, Court

One of the supposed “benefits” for the Palestinians of achieving U.N. recognition of statehood in the West Bank and Gaza would be the possibility for the new "state" to submit itself to the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court (ICC), thereby paving the way for prosecutions of Israeli…