国际法院主席、来自日本的岩泽裕治在联合国会议上保持沉默，未对可能颠覆其法院的问题作出回应。关于冈比亚诉缅甸案——该案将使国际法院降低证明种族灭绝的门槛——仅被简短提及。相比之下，法院大楼的石棉问题则被详细讨论了三段。
The President of the International Court of Justice, Yuji Iwasawa of Japan, kept mum at the United Nations on Thursday on the question that may upend his court. The Gambia v. Myanmar, the case in which the ICJ is poised to lower the threshold for proving genocide, merited only a passing mention. By contrast an asbestos problem in the court’s building received three paragraphs.
毫无疑问，缅甸是岩泽先生心中的首要议题。上周，美国驻联合国大使迈克·沃尔茨（Mike Waltz）对此做出了明确表态。沃尔茨在公开声明中指出，国际法院即将采取的行动正在缅甸准备，“以便在未来将削弱且虚假的[种族灭绝]标准武器化，用来针对美国及其盟军士兵，只要他们对隐藏在平民后面的恐怖分子举手。”法院现在已收到警告。
Make no mistake, Myanmar is atop Mr. Iwasawa’s mind. Mike Waltz, the U.S. Ambassador to the U.N., made sure of that last week. The ICJ’s looming move, Mr. Waltz argued in a public statement, is being prepared in Myanmar “so that weakened and false [genocide] standard can later be weaponized against American and allied soldiers whenever they raise a finger against terrorists that hide behind civilians.”
沃尔茨继续说：“正如我们对国际刑事法院（ICC）的行动所示，”他补充道，“我们不会允许全球主义者、伪法官将法律武器化，针对我们的部队，削弱我们的主权，或危及美国人的生命。”10月9日，美国对国际刑事法院实施制裁，该法院追究个人责任，而非像国际法院那样裁决国家间争端。
The court is now on notice. “As our actions against the ICC demonstrate,” Mr. Waltz continued, “we will not allow globalist, faux-judges to weaponize the law against our troops, undermine our sovereignty, or put American lives at risk.”On Oct. 9 the U.S. sanctioned the International Criminal Court, which prosecutes individuals rather than adjudicating disputes between states as the ICJ does.
海牙的两大法院一直受到国际左派的压力，要求扩大其职权以束缚西方政策。区别在于，岩泽先生和国际法院已经见证了国际刑事法院在从法律走向政治时所遭遇的后果。他是否想做同样的事，让自己的法院陷入类似的危险？
Both courts in The Hague have been under pressure from the international left to expand their remit to handcuff Western policy. The difference is that Mr. Iwasawa and the ICJ have already seen what happened to the ICC when it crossed the line from law to politics. Does he want to do the same, and put his court in similar peril?
美国的担忧是有根据的。正如安德烈斯·穆尼奥斯-莫斯克拉（Andrés Munoz‑Mosquera）——2014年至2025年间北约最高盟军司令的首席法律顾问——在本篇文章中所解释的那样，“一种新的、可塑的[种族灭绝]标准可能成为一种先例，使几乎任何涉及大量平民伤亡的军事行动都被重新定义为种族灭绝指控。”其结果将是“削弱民主国家打击恐怖分子和独裁者的能力。”这就是目标。
U.S. concerns are well-founded. As Andres Munoz-Mosquera, chief legal adviser to NATO’s Supreme Allied Commander from 2014-25, explained in these pages, “A new and malleable [genocide] standard could become a precedent through which virtually any military campaign involving substantial civilian casualties is recast as a genocide claim.”The result would be to “undercut democracies’ ability to fight terrorists and autocrats.”That’s the goal.
大家都知道全球左派为何想重新定义种族灭绝，这与缅甸对罗兴亚人的虐待毫无关系。即使不改变法律标准，也可以将其视为种族灭绝。改变只需帮助南非对以色列的案件——证据远远不足——然后将美国置于威胁之上。
Everyone knows why the global left wants to redefine genocide, and it has nothing to do with Myanmar’s mistreatment of the Rohingya. That can be found genocidal with no change in legal standard. The change would be needed only to help South Africa’s case against Israel—where the evidence falls far short—and then to hold over the U.S. as a threat.
我们希望岩佐和罗马尼亚法官博格丹·奥雷斯库（Bogdan Aurescu）本周在纽约的行程愉快。除非有变动以避免美国制裁，否则这可能是他们最后一次。正如沃尔茨（Waltz）所明确指出的，他们法院的信誉和未来都岌岌可危。
We hope Mr. Iwasawa and fellow judge Bogdan Aurescu of Romania enjoyed their trips to New York this week. Unless something changes to avert U.S. sanctions, it could be their last. As Mr. Waltz made clear, their court’s credibility and its future are at stake.
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