Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has sharply criticized the possible issuing of arrest warrants against him and other Israelis by the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague. If the court were to issue the warrants, it would be an “unprecedented anti-Semitic hate crime,” Netanyahu said in a video address on Tuesday. Such a step would violate Israel’s right to self-defence following the Hamas massacre on October 7 last year, he claimed. Netanyahu spoke of a “distortion of justice and history,” and insisted that the possible arrest warrants would have no influence on Israel’s de…