I’m glad to hear Labor and the Greens support the ICC, and to hear that "it is in Australia’s national interest for international law to be upheld.”

Because you know, based on recent events I would’ve assumed the opposite. Someone should tell David McBride.

Typical mashed potatoe reply from dutton… Is dutton the best the lnp have? Barnaby is more popular I’d imagine…

This is the best summary I could come up with:

Other Australian politicians were more forthright in responding to the Guardian’s reports about how Israel had deployed its intelligence agencies to surveil, hack, pressure, smear and allegedly threaten senior court staff in an effort to derail its inquiries since 2015.

A covert operation against Bensouda, revealed on Tuesday, was allegedly run personally by Benjamin Netanyahu’s close ally Yossi Cohen, who was at the time the director of Israel’s foreign intelligence agency, the Mossad.

Details of Israel’s nine-year campaign to thwart the ICC’s inquiry into alleged war crimes have been uncovered by the Guardian, the Israeli-Palestinian publication +972 Magazine and the Hebrew-language outlet Local Call.

The comments also follow threats by the opposition leader, Peter Dutton, to cut ties with the ICC if an arrest warrant is issued for Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, in connection with the conduct of the ongoing war in Gaza.

A recent intercepted communication suggested that Bensouda’s successor as prosecutor, Karim Khan, wanted to issue arrest warrants against Israelis but was under “tremendous pressure from the United States”, according to a source familiar with its contents.

Dutton said last week that the Australian government must “put pressure on the ICC to make sure that they reverse this terrible decision” and to “stand with an ally and a country that was subject to barbaric attacks by a listed terrorist organisation”.

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