America and Israel have reacted with outrage at the implied equivalence between Israel and Hamas
been expected in Israel for weeks, but the moment was still a shock when it arrived. On May 20th the prosecutor for the International Criminal Court , Karim Khan, announced that he was requesting arrest warrants for Binyamin Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant, Israel’s prime minister and defence minister, along with the leaders of Hamas, the Islamist movement that launched the deadly attack on Israel on October 7th last year, on charges of war crimes.
The prospect of their leaders appearing in the dock along with the perpetrators of a massacre against them is unthinkable for Israelis. But it is a sign of the horror with which many in the world have come to view their government’s devastating war in Gaza. Mr Khan, a British lawyer, issued detailed and lengthy accusations against both sides.
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