On Nov. 21, the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, accusing them of war crimes and crimes against humanity in Gaza. Netanyahu’s office announced plans to appeal the decision and noted that U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., had informed Netanyahu about “a series of measures he is promoting in the U.S. Congress against the ICC and countries cooperating with it.”
In the video above, Straight Arrow News contributor Star Parker echoes the condemnations of the ICC warrants by both U.S. House leadership and President Biden. Parker also says that Democratic leadership must consider sanctions against the ICC and calls for “bipartisan resolve against terrorist organizations like Hamas.”
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The following is an excerpt from the above video:
Hamas terrorists brutally murdered more than 1,200 Israeli citizens on that dark day in 2023 and took hundreds more hostage. Several Americans were also killed or taken hostage that day.
On June 4th, 2024, the House of Representatives passed H.R. 8282, the Illegitimate Court Counteraction Act, to impose sanctions on the ICC. Speaker Johnson called the House’s action a “necessary response” to the ICC’s “outrageous and unfounded claims of authority.” In light of the ICC’s latest charges against Prime Minister Netanyahu and Israel’s former defense minister, Speaker Johnson says the U.S. Senate should vote immediately on the bipartisan legislation the House passed in June, and that President Biden should take clear steps to prevent these warrants from being enforced.
If Senate Majority Leader Schumer and President Biden do not act now, the Speaker said, “they will most assuredly invite future lawfare against Israel and the United States. We cannot afford to show weakness.”
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