how can there be justice in a court which has no mandate to exist, let alone conduct trials?
the ICJ is assuming ultimate authority over justice on the planet, and as such sets an incredibly dangerous precedent. whether this vaunted authority prosecutes genuine crimes or not is irrelevant, the power of a singular organization playing the role of a global supreme arbitrator is simply too dangerous.
Any risk that the ICJ itself becomes corrupt is so compelling that it should never even have been conceived, and cannot conscienibly be supported if one considers this unacceptable risk. Those involved and who continue to support the ICJ clearly do not understand legends such as Icarus or the Tower of Babel; blindly striving for ideals risks making an imperfect world even worse.
I don't know anything about the ICJ, but, courts always have a mandate to exist. Without such a mandate, they are not a court, and can't be talked about as existing, except in a fictitious way.
A guy courts a gal. The court exists as long as she accepts the courting.
The ICJ people are the ones who give their court its authority. Destroy those people, and the court doesn't exist any longer. Any people who give any credence to the ICJ (like you seem to be doing, inadvertently), are people who support the ICJ, and help to maintain its existence.
If the makers of the ICJ court have strength, they just might conquer anyone who doesn't have strength to oppose them. But that is the way it is with anything. Hitler never had any strength until he formed the court of his government and talked people into supporting him. Then he had strength.
The fear is that the ICJ might be relying on some other governmental statements to trick or force the other government into giving them their strength.
The United Nations only has strength because member nations give it their strength. But they never give it their whole strength. Nobody wants to be conquered by the UN.
The ICJ has strength because of the strength of the people who formed it and recognize it. The question is, how great is their strength, really?