Jurisdictional Power of the International Criminal Court: The case of Israel and Palestine, ¿Belligerent Statolatry or Lack of Jurisdiction?

In 2015, Palestine signed the Rome Statute, despite the fierce resistance and pressure against it from Israel and the United States, highlighting the ineffectiveness
of the latter’s foreign policy and diplomacy in the Middle East. A year earlier, in
2014, Palestine became a “State Party” to the 1969 Vienna Convention on the Law
of Treaties, possibly to pre-empt Israel in upholding its rights as a State since
1948. One of the main consequences of the Palestinian membership to the Rome
Statute is undoubtedly the automatic jurisdiction of the International Criminal
Court (icc) over possible international crimes perpetrated in the Palestinian
Authority controlled territories. In view of the previous facts, the following questions arise: What are the consequences of Palestine becoming the 123rd member State
to recognize the jurisdiction of the icc for Israel? Wasn’t it the same Nuremberg
principles that inspired the trials of the Nazi criminals who exterminated the Jewish people? As a “State Party” to the Rome Statute, will Palestine succeed in
transferring its historic conflict against Israel to The Hague? And, for that matter,
will the international pressure force Israel to ratify the Rome Statute?