The credibility of United Nations has suffered drastically by its ineffectiveness in preventing Israel from roasting Gaza civilians with white phosphorus and other illegal substances and thereby clearly violating the international laws and Geneva Convention. If the UN is serious in maintaining rather rebuilding its credibility in the world and playing a more proactive role in the international comity rather than in behaving just as a pawn of super powers, it is indispensable that Israel’s war criminals shall be punished stringently.
Or else the UN will ultimately meet the fate of League of Nations that was also notorious for appeasing powerful rogue states. In this regard Siddharth Vardarajan’s ‘ICC should prosecute Israeli leaders for Gaza’ was an interesting reading. He raise the most pertinent question of the day that, “Six years after it was established and a week after the first trial of an alleged war criminal Thomas Lubanga from DR Congo began with much fanfare, the International Criminal Court is confronting a serious existential question. Will it be a tribunal where only black and brown men are to be prosecuted? Or will criminals from the ‘civilised’ western world also be arraigned before it?”
Khan Yasir
Hindu College, New Delhi