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Thank you to Sean Kelly for his balanced and informative column analysing International Criminal Court prosecutor Karim Khan’s decision to apply for arrest warrants for Israeli and Hamas leaders (“ Amid the ugly Middle East debate, we’ve lost sight of the obvious ”, 27/5). However, although Kelly rebuts the view that Khan’s move demonstrates a moral equivalence between Israel and Hamas, it is interesting to note that both Israel and Hamas have themselves condemned the ICC prosecutor’s move to seek arrest warrants for their leaders. Netanyahu denounced the ICC move as a “complete distortion of reality”, and rejected “with disgust” the Hague prosecutor’s comparison of “democratic Israel and the mass murderers of Hamas”.
Hamas has condemned the prosecutor’s application, saying it “equates the victim with the executioner”. Presumably both Israel and Hamas are of the view that equivalence has been implied, and neither of them likes it. Deborah Morrison, Malvern East Held to account Sean Kelly applies a laser beam of logic to the emotive criticism of the International Criminal Court prosecutor’s decision to seek arrest warrants for Israeli and Hamas leaders for war crimes.
In short, it’s not a case of moral equiv.
