Kuala Lampur, June 11 -- It's always the same playbook. When justice starts sniffing too close to the men with blood under their fingernails, they don't argue facts. They don't invite transparency. They threaten. They bully. They pick up the phone and speak slowly, like they're doing you a favour by not tearing the whole thing down. And that's exactly what David Cameron did.

The former Prime Minister-Britain's once-chosen steward of democracy and human rights-called the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court and told him that holding Israeli leaders accountable for alleged war crimes would be like "dropping a hydrogen bomb." Let that sink in. Not a court ruling. Not a verdict. A bomb. This wasn't diplomacy. This was a warni...