Analysis: Israel elevates the ICC over the United Nations

"...If Netanyahu grants a request by the International Criminal Court Prosecutor to send representatives to meet with Israel and the Palestinian Authority in the coming weeks, which The Jerusalem Post confirmed on Friday that he is considering, it could be a game-changer.

Israel has not cooperated with numerous UN and other international investigations of alleged war crimes in the past, refusing UN officials entry when they requested to come to collect evidence.

Neither officials from the UNHRC's Goldstone Report on the 2008-9 Gaza war or from its McGowan-Davis Report on the 2014 Gaza war were permitted to enter the country. Netanyahu also massively attacked the ICC Prosecutor's legitimacy in January 2015 when it recognized Palestine as a state for its purposes...

For Netanyahu to give the ICC any kind of public podium in Israel is a major change, even as there has been quiet cooperation between Israeli legal and ICC officials since July 2015 on limited jurisdictional issues...

But for the first time since the 2014 Gaza war, and in some ways the first time in decades, a major international body and Israel have taken cooperation on war crimes issues to a new level..."