Biden administration signals it will support push to sanction ICC (www.ft.com)

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The Joe Biden administration will work with Congress on possible sanctions against the International Criminal Court after its prosecutor announced it was seeking arrest warrants for senior Israeli and Hamas officials, US secretary of state Antony Blinken said on Tuesday.

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Blinken’s openness to bipartisan co-operation over the ICC is a sign of the level of anger in Washington over its request for arrest warrants for Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and defence minister Yoav Gallant.

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The sanctions could be similar to those imposed by the Trump administration on the ICC’s then chief prosecutor Fatou Bensouda and the court’s head of jurisdiction Phakiso Mochochoko for their investigation into alleged US war crimes in Afghanistan. The sanctions froze their American assets and banned their travel to the US. The Biden administration has not yet indicated what kind of sanctions it would support.

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Republican Senator Lindsey Graham praised Schumer’s response to the ICC warrant application and urged him “to follow strong words with strong deeds”.

“It is imperative that the Senate, in a bipartisan way, comes up with crippling sanctions against the ICC — not only to support Israel but to deter any future action against American personnel,” Graham said.

In an interview with MSNBC on Tuesday, Netanyahu said his response to the ICC’s announcement was “no different from what President Biden said, this is outrageous and many people across the political spectrum in the United States . . . have called it exactly that”.

“It’s a rogue prosecutor who’s out to demonise the one and only Jewish state,” he added.

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[-] TheDemonBuer@lemmy.world 46 points 5 months ago

“It is imperative that the Senate, in a bipartisan way, comes up with crippling sanctions against the ICC — not only to support Israel but to deter any future action against American personnel,” Graham said.

In this time of political division, it's good to see there is still at least one thing liberals and conservatives agree on, and that is that the US and Israel must be allowed to commit war crimes without consequences.

[-] NegativeLookBehind@lemmy.world 39 points 5 months ago

Will somebody take the shovel away from Joe? His political grave is deep enough.

[-] Pavidus@lemmy.world 15 points 5 months ago

They should just comply. If they did nothing wrong, it will be fine. That's what we're told, right?

[-] anticolonialist@lemmy.world 12 points 5 months ago

This is the status quo so many people are defending

[-] Suavevillain@lemmy.world 9 points 5 months ago

It would be an historic and dangerous mistake for a Democratic Administration to participate in an attack on international law and institutions. There is no such thing as a "rules based international order" if the rules only apply to people and countries you don't like. I've never seen someone not want to win like this before. Bipartisanship only moves in one direction, and it is right.

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