Dershowitz: International Criminal Court Will Go After Israel If Settlement Bill Passes

"If the Knesset passes the settlements regulation bill, the International Criminal Court will go after Israelis and the Obama administration will let an anti-settlement resolution through at the UN, Prof. Alan Dershowitz says...

There is an intense debate in Israel over whether passing the bill to retroactively legalize certain unauthorized outposts built on private Palestinian land in exchange for financially compensating the Palestinians is legal and whether it would bring consequences from the international community, such as provoking the ICC. The original text of the legislation covered the Amona outpost, which the High Court of Justice has ordered demolished by December 25, but the proposed law has since been amended to not cover outposts which the court has ordered must be taken down...

'If the Amona bill is passed, two things will happen: One, the International Criminal Court, which is now reluctant to take jurisdiction, will take jurisdiction. It will be a provocation,' he asserted.

Continuing, the famed jurist stated, 'Second, if the Amona bill were to be passed in the next two weeks, the president of the United States would have no choice but to say I'm not going to veto the French Security Council resolution condemning Israeli settlements.'..."