A group of 12 Republican senators sent a letter to the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) that threatens “severe sanctions” and hints at other action if the court issues arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and other Israeli officials.
The letter, dated April 24, was obtained by Zeteo and says that action against Israeli officials would result in “severe sanctions.” The senators referenced the American Service-Members’ Protection Act, a law that authorizes the president to use any means to free any US or allied personnel detained by the ICC. The law is nicknamed the Hague Invasion Act.
“If you issue a warrant for the arrest of the Israeli, we will interpret this not only as a threat to Israel’s sovereignty but as a threat to the sovereignty of the United States. Our country demonstrated in the American Service-Members’ Protection Act the lengths to which we will go to protect that sovereignty,” the letter reads.
The senators said the ICC didn’t have jurisdiction to issue warrants since neither the US nor Israel are members of the court. But the State of Palestine, which includes Gaza and the West Bank, was accepted as a member of the ICC in 2015, and any warrant would be related to Israel’s actions in Gaza.
The letter concludes: “The United States will not tolerate politicized attacks by the ICC on our allies. Target Israel and we will target you. If you move forward with the measures indicated in this report, we will move to end all American support for the ICC, sanction your employees and your associates, and bar you and your family from the United States. You have been warned.”
On May 3, the ICC issued a statement condemning threats against the court and said attempts to “impede, intimidate, or improperly influence” ICC officials must “cease immediately.”
Netanyahu has been calling for other countries to work against the warrant and said that if one is issued over his genocidal war in Gaza, it would be an “unprecedented antisemitic hate crime.”
The 12 Republican senators who sent the letter include Mitch McConnell, Tom Cotton, Marsha Blackburn, Katie Boyd Britt, Ted Budd, Kevin Cramer, Ted Cruz, Bill Hagerty, Pete Ricketts, Marco Rubio, Rick Scott, and Tim Scott.
More naked thuggery from the Yankee Empire.
BY BOTH PARTIES! COMPLICIT IN THE ACT OF GENOCIDE!
It’s the Anglo/American/Israel empire.
Either way, they should all GTFO of the world.
Looks like Israel occupies the banks of the Potomac as much as the West Bank
Actually a WAR CRIME under the Geneva Conventions and Ultra vires according to the Treaty clause or the US Constitution. Schedule III Articles 129 to 131 of the Geneva Conventions a US Senate ratifies International Treaty.
Still optimistic the world can avoid WW3?
Not according to Professor Jeffrey Sachs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdxt23fKLIg
Not a chance.
Senators? More like Mafia mob bosses, or maybe Sith Lords from Star Wars. Nothing but pure evil and hatred.
More like dozen petty tyrants and faithless traitors. Nothing more, nothing less.
I guess we know where to start in preparing a list of who is “on the take”
It’s longer than that. . . https://candidates.aipacpac.org/page/featured/
Well as I said, the ICC is over now either way. They buckle now and no one in the world henceforth will be able to take them seriously in any sort of capacity. They have then revealed themselves to be nothing but a tool and extension of Western political power, as they already have done everything in their power to strengthen that image. They would have extended that unflattering picture to the point of even de facto legalizing participating in genocide.
And if the don’t buckle they may hold on to some last shreds of credibilty but committed suicide of the body. They will be destroyed by the power of the entire West (mind you if the Israeli say jump America asks how high, if America says jump Europe asks how high, the ICC is located in the Hague and the unquestioning obedience of the Dutch govt can never be in doubt) instructing the rest of the world once more the infinities of Western hypocrisy. So exit ICC at both horns of the dilemma.
Move the ICC to a safer and more civilized location such as Shanghai, Mexico City, or Moscow,
” safer and more civilized location” Moscow??? LOL.
You a anti Russian racist too ?
“…anti Russian racist…”
I’m told there’s no such thing; at least until the Southern Poverty Law Center or some local, state, or federal agency decrees that “ta**ie” and other racial slurs against Russians are exactly what they already are.
Nope, but I do enjoy a good joke. Moscow safer and more civilized than The Hague. That was funny. Now saying that Mexico city is safer than The Hague, that is just dumb.
Found on Twitter:
“I think we should’ve gone into Rafah yesterday already… There are no uninvolved (civilians) there. You have to go in and kill and kill and kill… We have to kill them before they kill us”
That’s Shimon Boker, vice chairman of the World Likud, the international arm of Netnayahu’s party. This is what he had to say three days ago, on Channel 12’s “Ofira & Levinson” talk show.
“shimon” sounds like a Michael Jackson word.
America needs to listen to this interview of Professor Jeffrey Sachs by Judge Napolitano:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdxt23fKLIg
America doesn’t want to listen. Even if we manage to listen, most of us have magical wipers in our brains similar to windshield wipers. But those wipers do a much better job wiping out any remaining humanity.
As Gore Vidal said “United States of Amnesia” …
This is Biden’s america.
Not since Clinton has the Republican Party had such a useful Democrat as President.
This is what Judge Napolitano and Professor Jeffrey Sachs had to say about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdxt23fKLIg
““If you issue a warrant for the arrest of the Israeli, we will interpret this not only as a threat to Israel’s sovereignty but as a threat to the sovereignty of the United States.” Bat shit crazy as well as dangerous. We are ruled by absolute criminals. Revolution now!
Anti abortion baby killers haunt the halls of Congress blathering violent nonsense as the US withers.
What is an “Anti abortion baby killers” ?
Well, you have these people who profess to be “pro life” but really are just anti-women. It’s a religious thing, women aren’t supposed to make decisions. Men do that for them. This is the way God organized the world to be.
These are the same people, usually, who have no problem with murdering humans of any age. Babies, children, young adults, adults, elderly. Well, they do become concerned with the elderly again at some point. Or with anyone who decides they desire a dignified death over pointless suffering. Then they are at odds with God again you see. But killing babies to support a genocide is alright with Jesus.
Wait – the same god whose book instructs how to perform an abortion, as a witchcraft-y test for unfaithfulness ? (Numbers 5:11-31)
Well yes, but then again what could be bad about poisoning women on instigation by frustrated insecure feeble minded men overshadowed physically and mentally by a wives way out of his league?
Atheists scored a big win here. If there was a God, this piece of paper would burn as soon as it received those signatures.
Thank you proving that charges against President Putin are false and a joke!
The REAL story here is that ONLY 12 Congresspeople threatened the ICC. The other 400 some odd members of Congress probably realize those 12 are now open to war crimes charges themselves! What a disgrace, that US “leaders” would leave the door open so the wolf can eat the chickens!
“those 12 are now open to war crimes charges themselves” That is just plain stupid.
Aiding and abetting a plausible genocide
Which they are not doing.
The Bush Hague Invasion Act was passed by the House 280-138 (84 Democrats in favor) and by the Senate 71-22 (Dems voting in favor included Biden, Leahy, Schumer, Hillary Clinton, Mikulski and Wellstone; McCain voted against it). Please get it straight for the millionth time. We live in a one party military industrial capitalist dictatorship.
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http://www.senate DOT gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_votes/vote1072/vote_107_2_00145.htm?congress=107&session=2&vote=00145#position
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So are these 12 War Criminals protecting War Criminals? Congress is the enemy of our Constitution, our Republic and World Peace. PLEASE vote OUT all the Reps/Dems in the coming November Elections. For any American Senator, to threaten the ICC for arresting War Criminals, is also threatening the Rule of Law. These 12 Senators know that many in Congress, including themselves, are complicit in sponsoring, aiding, abetting War Crimes and just maybe, see the possibility of themselves being issued Arrest Warrants. The Genocide of Palestinians by Israel/Western Nations, will never be hidden, never not punished, because the World has seen the evidence, has heard the evidence and the People demand Justice.
The 12 Republican senators who sent the letter include Mitch McConnell, Tom Cotton, Marsha Blackburn, Katie Boyd Britt, Ted Budd, Kevin Cramer, Ted Cruz, Bill Hagerty, Pete Ricketts, Marco Rubio, Rick Scott, and Tim Scott.
A partial list of who makes Putin look like a moderate if he were a US senator. Also, a list of people that I wish were gathered together and dumped off in downtown Rajah.
Hear hear.
Check out and find how much AIPAC and other Zionist linked moneys and goodies they got.
This is not a nightmare, it has become reality the hegemon has become a Banana Republic with President Netanyahu in charge of the evil idiots in congress.
Have the ‘Turner Diaries’ become prophecy like ‘1984’ and Manson’s ‘Helter Skelter’ race war?
It is close.
Thankfully the ICC will ignore these utter fiends and produce arrest warrants for American political hacks also. The more these examples of human garbage are ignored the better for all of Us
So much for the “rules based international order.” Putin didn’t throw this kind of hissy fit when they issued a warrant for him. These traitors do that and more for a foreign government.
The Palestinians are targets too. Put that in your pipe and smoke it a-holes.
It is the peak of ideological and clinical psychopathy to declare that opposition to genocide is a form of genocide, as Johnson and virtually all of our morally corrupt political class is doing.
And, would be found totally insane in anybodies court of law. Everyday the collective psychosis gets more intense in Wash. and is also spreading around the world. Governments are all going nuts at once!
This proves there’s no concept of law, let alone decency in Wash. The uni-party is supreme now, and it is all for genocide with US tax payer funds for weapons and Tel Aviv’s using the weapons for the ongoing ethnic cleansing.
The collective psychosis is intensifying in Wash. and Tel Aviv and, like a virus, it is spreading around the world with other countries joining in on stopping protests through state sponsored violence against peaceful protestors.
threaten, sanction, destabilize, lecture, demand, invade, occupy, overthrow, destroy, ….
This is Uncle Sam’s vocabulary, all of it. Soon to become the most hated nation state in history on the planet, dwarfing the hordes out of Asia in its grotesque violence accompanying the relentless pursuit of global rule with the iron fist.