Writes David Martin:

The ICC essentially had no choice but to issue the arrest warrants, the only alternative being to expose incontrovertibly to the whole world what a sham it is—nothing more than a weapon hypocritically used by western powers against two-bit thugs while the U.S. government goes on violating international law with impunity.

The ICJ will similarly have no choice but to rule, probably some years from now, that Israel has been guilty of perpetrating the crime of genocide in Gaza.

The credibility of the existing world order is at stake. We are supposed to believe that institutions like the United Nations, its legal organ the ICJ, and the separately established ICC exist to uphold international law, to maintain world peace, and to hold aggressors accountable for their crimes.

See here.