“If the ICC was allowed to … go after the leaders of nations whose actions they disagree with, why would they not come after America?”
— Home Speaker Mike Johnson pushes GOP-sponsored invoice to sanction the ICC for making use of for an arrest warrant in opposition to Israeli PM Netanyahu pic.twitter.com/t2ikJnDRGC
— The Recount (@therecount) June 4, 2024
Congress should shield America’s pursuits.
The ICC’s determination to subject arrest warrants for a democratic ally’s sitting management threatens these pursuits.
H.R. 8282 would permit our nation to sanction this rogue court docket at any time when they try and harass us or an allied state. pic.twitter.com/nTzNt3YFJ7
— Home Guidelines Committee (@RulesReps) June 4, 2024
Take a spoonful of Holocaust and add a touch of chosen ones, and also you’ve acquired your self a bunch of people that can do no matter they wish to anybody, together with slaughtering tens of 1000’s of kids with out consequence.
That is simply primary politics.
The Home of Representatives on Tuesday handed laws to sanction Worldwide Legal Court docket officers concerned in looking for arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.In a 247-155 vote, 42 Democrats joined all Republicans in backing the invoice which might drive President Biden to disclaim entry into the US, revoke visas and impose monetary sanctions on members of The Hague concerned within the effort to arrest Netanyahu, 74, and Israeli Protection Minister Yoav Gallant, 65, over alleged struggle crimes associated to Israel’s response to the Oct. 7, 2023, terrorist assault on the Jewish state.
Reps. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) and Warren Davidson (R-Ohio) voted “current.”“Immediately, Home Republicans handed the Illegitimate Court docket Counteraction Act which can maintain the corrupt ICC accountable to guard Israel and our allies from baseless assaults from antisemitic unelected bureaucrats on the ICC,” Republican Convention Chairwoman Elise Stefanik (R-NY) stated in a press release.
“The ICC is an illegitimate court docket that equivocates a peaceable nation defending its proper to exist with radical terror teams that commit genocide,” she added.
What a foolish, silly bitch.
I can’t even consider these individuals are nonetheless speaking about October seventh. Even when you needed to speak about that, shouldn’t there by an investigation? Shouldn’t we all know the way it was allowed to occur? Shouldn’t we all know how lots of the civilians had been killed by Israelis, and never Hamas?
Shouldn’t we additionally talk about the 80 years of historical past main as much as the occasion?
Elise Stefanik doesn’t wish to know any of that.
She simply desires to line her pockets with Jewish money, whereas lining her plate with donuts.
Immediately, the Home handed a invoice which might apply US sanctions on the ICC for his or her efforts to carry Israeli leaders accountable for his or her crimes in Gaza. We can’t permit our authorities to assault worldwide establishments upholding the rule of regulation.
Inform Schumer to not let this… pic.twitter.com/YgL7fyDAUC
— Medea Benjamin (@medeabenjamin) June 4, 2024