The International Criminal Court’s chief prosecutor, Karim Khan, called on Monday for the arrest of Israel’s prime minister for war crimes. In doing so, he hammered another nail into the coffin of the ICC, which predictably has become a force not for a better world but for malevolent international apparatchiks to wield as a weapon against Western-oriented liberal democracies. Khan indefensibly equates Israel and Hamas, which demonstrates why Israel and the United States were right not to sacrifice any sovereignty by signing the Rome Statute, which gives the ICC its gossamer wisps of authority.

Khan’s arrest warrants for Benjamin Netanyahu, Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, and Hamas leaders Yahya Sinwar and Mohammed Deif assert that there are “reasonable grounds to believe that” they “bear criminal responsibility” for “war crimes and crimes against humanity” in relation to the Oct. 7, 2023, atrocities and Israel’s military response to them.