Nick Robinson

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1,535 appearances 8 recordings 1 series first heard May 2026 last heard 9 Jul

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Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · 'We need some daydreaming': lawyer Theodor Meron on surviving the Holocaust, and issuing Netanyahu’s arrest warrant · 12 Jun 2026 podcast

idea in your mind that the law in some sense was the answer to the horrors that you'd lived through, that in some sense rules, order, a legal framework might stop the horrors happening again? matched

So let's turn now to this extraordinary moment towards the latter part of your life, what I matched

could describe as your late middle age now that you're ninety-six, which is this decision that you take, having been involved in international criminal justice for much of your life, having been president of the war crimes tribunals for the UN, dealing with both Rwanda and Yugoslavia. matched

The decision you took to be involved in a decision about whether to prosecute the Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, you had up until that moment said I don't want to be involved in decisions about Israel. matched

Why did that change? matched

Just to explain the history to people who don't know that, back in nineteen sixty seven when Israel came under attack, managed to see off that attack incredibly quickly in those six days, and then occupied the territory which Israel still occupies now. matched

and which is so deeply controversial because of the development of Israeli settlements on what is seen internationally and within law as occupied Palestinian land. matched

You're telling us that way back then matched

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Those settlements shouldn't exist. matched

They're not legal. matched

How was that judgment received then? matched

Not enthused? matched

Not induced. matched

That's another of your understatements. matched

Um I imagine they were furious, weren't they? matched

As they were they intended to ignore it. matched

And but this uh they would disguise them in effect. matched

When you look at what's happening on the West Bank now, in which it's clear that settlers are attacking Palestinians in their villages in order to drive them out of that land to occupy more and more of the land matched

to make it argued often the two state solution impossible to implement, even if it can never be agreed. matched

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