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Alan Dershowitz is assembling a ‘dream team’ to defend Israeli leaders in The Hague, he proclaimed in a Wall Street Journal op-ed. “I am assembling a team of world-class lawyers from around the globe to help defend Israeli leaders against the false charges,” Dershowitz wrote.
Dershowitz said that several prominent lawyers have already promised to join the legal battle, including former US attorneys and a former FBI director. In a video, Andrew Cuomo proudly declared that he will assist in the defense.
Among those who agreed to join Dershowitz:
* Former US attorneys general Michael Mukasey and William Barr
* Former Solicitor General Seth Waxman
* Former FBI Director Louis Freeh
* Former Canadian attorney general and minister of justice Irwin Cotler.
Other former judges, government officials, prosecutors and professors and criminal lawyers have also signed on.
In addition, distinguished lawyers Kendall Coffey, Floyd Abrams, Susan Estrich, Nathan Lewin, Benjamin Brafman, Arthur Aidala, Ron Sullivan and other former prosecutors are joining the team, as are Nadine Strossen, the former president of the American Civil Liberties Union, and “the great one” Mark Levin.
“Interestingly, David Boies — one of America’s most famous litigators — has agreed to work with us. He and I have been involved in antagonistic litigation against each other for years, but we agree on this issue, and he is enthusiastic about joining me in this effort,” Dershowitz wrote.
“Without making comparisons to the Holocaust, the ICC — which along with the International Court of Justice has shown bias against Israel for years — would probably have issued warrants against the Jewish fighters in the Warsaw ghetto along with the Nazis who were seeking to murder them. By pursuing these illegal and unjustified warrants, the ICC has lost its credibility. The US should sanction the institution. This process is already under way in Congress and should be pursued,” he wrote.
“We will argue that the ICC has no jurisdiction against Israel, not only because it isn’t a member, but also because the treaty that established that court precludes it from considering cases against any country with a valid judicial system that is willing and able to investigate the alleged crimes,” he wrote.
“We will also demonstrate that Israel’s actions in Gaza don’t violate any international law or laws of war over which the ICC has jurisdiction.”
“This case will be tried in a courtroom in The Hague. It will also be tried in the court of public opinion, both in the US and throughout the world,” Dershowitz wrote.
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