"Recent indications from the Palestinian leadership appear to point towards a change in their campaign to undermine and criminalize Israel and its representatives in international forums.
For some years, the Palestinian leadership has attempted to politically manipulate the International Criminal Court, with the aim of criminalizing Israel’s political and military leadership. Through a systematic policy of referring hundreds of personalized war-crimes allegations, they have managed to ceremonially present these claims to the former prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC).
While the former ICC prosecutor opted to open a formal investigation following Palestinian referrals, several serious legal questions are still pending with regard to the ICC’s processing of such referrals.
These include the question of the legal standing of the Palestinians vis-à-vis the ICC, in light of the ICC Statute requirement that only states may be party to it. Similarly, concomitant questions exist as to whether the Palestinians fulfill the requirements for statehood under international law.
There are indications that the court is not in a hurry to take up the issue. Therefore, the Palestinian leadership appears to be changing its legal tactics and veering toward an attempt to criminalize Israel itself at the International Court of Justice at The Hague (ICJ)..."