After Ole’s and Valentina’s interesting posts on some of the legal aspects of the ongoing conflict in Gaza I would like to address some points regarding an issue that has been briefly mentioned in those posts and in various other contributions on the same topic, e.g. by Eric Posner, namely the question of the establishment of an International Criminal Tribunal for Israel. Perhaps a short remark at the outset: the establishment of an international tribunal that is supposed to deal with cases arising from a certain – more or less – contained conflict, certainly is a tool that looks good…