Kuala Lampur, June 24 -- JUNE 24 - "You do not have to blow up a whole building because there is one Hezbollah member in it. There are many innocent people too."

Donald Trump said that recently of Israel's bombing in Lebanon. It was an unusually blunt description of the civilian cost of war from a man not usually accused of excessive tenderness towards international law.

But there is another kind of demolition now under way: the demolition of the independence of the International Criminal Court's prosecutor, Karim Khan.

And Malaysia should not be silent.

Three senior judges, appointed by the ICC's own governing Bureau, examined the United Nations investigation into allegations against Khan. They reviewed the report and a vast body of ...