Lawmakers want to “punish” the court for the Gaza war crimes probe.
The US House of Representatives on Tuesday voted to punish the International Criminal Court for seeking to charge Israeli leaders with war crimes in Gaza.
ICC Prosecutor Karim Khan has sought arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, as well as three top leaders of the Palestinian militant group Hamas. While the court has not yet approved the request, American lawmakers have moved to make sure it does not.
“The idea that they would issue an arrest warrant for the prime minister of Israel, defense minister of Israel at the time where they’re fighting for their nation’s very existence against the evil of Hamas as a proxy of Iran is unconscionable to us,” Speaker Mike Johnson, a Louisiana Republican, said on Tuesday. “And as I said a couple of weeks ago, the ICC has to be punished for this action.”
The proposal passed with 247 votes in favor and 155 opposed. Every Republican and 42 pro-Israel Democrats voted yes. The rest of President Joe Biden’s party voted no, however, because they were opposed to the sanctions that were at the heart of the Republican proposal.
Sponsored by Texas Republican Chip Roy, the bill would see the US impose travel and financial sanctions against ICC officials, giving the US president unilateral authority to end them if the court stops investigating Americans or their allies, or “permanently ends” investigations into protected individuals.
Some Democrats warned that the sanctions could impact some of Washington’s allies which – unlike the US – have ratified the Rome Statute and accepted the ICC’s jurisdiction.
“It would sanction the leaders of some of our strongest allies: the UK, Italy, Germany, Japan. That’s dangerous stuff,” said Congressman Gregory Meeks, the New York Democrat who sits on the House Foreign Affairs Committee. “It’s so broad that it becomes very dangerous for us.”
Supporters of the bill from both parties have said that passing it would “send an important message” to the world that the US stands with Israel. It is unlikely to become law without Biden’s approval and support from Democrats in the Senate, however.
US outrage over the mere possibility the ICC could charge the Israeli leadership has drawn accusations of hypocrisy, as Washington cheered the court last year when it went after Russian President Vladimir Putin.
“There is Roman law, there is common law. And there is American law – decadent arthouse, transitioning into liberal postmodern bipolarity,” Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on Telegram, commenting on the House vote.
Gangster state.
But who wants to be associated with pariah’s. Only a sh**hole country like the USA. All bought by j*** sh finance
This means that those Nations that have upheld the rulings of both the ICC and the ICJ should now cancel any and all extradition agreements / treaties with the U.S., convert to BRICS, and recall their Ambassadors.
Closing the Foreign Government Consulate Offices in the U.S. will probably follow in light of the ‘sanctions’.
The U.S. hasn’t been the U.S. since 1913…it is a Zionist/J3wi$h-controlled country with a doped-up and overly-entertained population which has no cognitive thinking abilities no thanks to the Covid 19 bio-weapon vaccine and the death sentences that are well underway from the jabs.
F@#K Israel, and the Israeli-Americans serving in the bloody disgusting U.S. Congress!!!!!
And remember Solzhenytsyn’s observation;
“J3w$ ran the (GULAG) camps!” That explains the atrocities committed against the Gentile and Goyim prisoners!
They are no doubt worried they might be next….high time the crooks were made to answer for their crimes against the peoples of the world……….
The US stands with Israel does it.
Must be happy destroying most of Gaza civilian infrastructure and residences. Must be happy with prominent Israelis plans for the land
Well done sell-out US congressman and senators.
What’s bad:
Money’s being taken from the people to support this BS and the people get 💩 in return.
https://sputnikglobe.com/20240606/us-uses-aid-pier-to-roll-out-new-military-tech-for-testing-in-gaza-1118799094.html
US ” aid” or how the anglos saxon world operates. Perfidy is their mark
The Rothschild cabal, starting THEIR parasitism in the 1700s, perfecting world terrorism with creation of Central Banks following 1913, usurping the goys labour with fractional reserve banking and compound interest (and demockracy), a scam so gigantic that normal people cannot grasp.
And THAT is the reason Putin kicked THEM out, and THAT is the reason THEY instigate war with Russia.
“War is OUR business. Let’s invest YOUR son.”