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You expect the Israeli courts to have started an investigation on crimes that had not yet been committed.

No, but at this point the alleged crimes were allegedly comitted (or started to be comitted. The ICC prosecutor would presumably argue that some of the alleged crimes are ongoing or at least were up until the ceasefire) years ago. At best, that argument might have worked when the warrants were first announced, but its been years now. There has been more then enough time to start an investigation. If they were serious about it, they can still start one tomorrow.

The charges made are for crimes allegedly committed after the “investigation” was started.

This indicates that the prosecutor was on a witch-hunt.

Perhaps the Israeli courts, who are independent of the Netanyahu government, have not initiated proceedings because they don’t believe there’s a valid case to be made.

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