Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) has called out House leadership for including a bill as part of a proposed rules package designed to protect Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
The rules package, which is set to be voted on Friday after the new House elects its speaker, includes a bill to sanction the International Criminal Court, which recently issued arrest warrants for Netanyahu, former Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, and Hamas military leader Mohammed Deif.
“The United States is a sovereign country, so I don’t assign any credibility to decisions of the International Criminal Court,” Massie wrote on X. “But how did a bill to protect Netanyahu make it into the House rules package to be voted on immediately after the Speaker vote? Where are our priorities?!”
The bill would impose sanctions “with respect to the International Criminal Court engaged in any effort to investigate, arrest, detain, or prosecute any protected person of the United States and its allies.”
The House passed a bill to sanction the ICC last year, but it was not taken up by the Senate. The US does have a law on the books that authorizes the use of military force against the Hague-based ICC to free any US or allied government officials or service members, nicknamed the Hague Invasion Act.
Massie is often the sole Republican in the House who votes against pro-Israel legislation and has been outspoken about the influence of the Israel lobby on Congress. In an interview with Tucker Carlson last year, Massie said every Republican in Congress except him has an “AIPAC babysitter,” referring to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, one of the most powerful lobbying groups in the country.
Massie has also gone against his own party by opposing the re-election of Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA), who has been endorsed by President-elect Donald Trump. Johnson played a decisive role in passing the $95 billion foreign military aid that President Biden signed into law last year.
Brave.
Let me get this straight- while the mainstream media pounds the "diabolical terrorists" meme into Americans' heads 24/7 concerning the New Years Days attacks, it continues to fund GENOCIDE by Israel in the Middle East? Every day I get on this website and read the headline "Israel kills 50 to 100 Gazans the last 24 hours". Americans haven't seen nothing yet. Their "best friend and ally" in the Middle East would gladly "gazify" American cities and take them if it could!
~Goebbels
This video includes that clip of Massie talking about AIPAC's influence over Congress.
The "dancing Israelis" are still dancing.
Patrick J. Buchanan famously said that Capitol Hill was "Israeli Occupied Territory". If anything, things have probably gotten even worse since then in the Swamp.
When criminals are in power, they want to abolish courts.
Massie in ‘28
Free Free America 🇺🇸
Trump should have picked him as his running mate.
But would Massie accept the honor?… Nah, he’s got a future.
Sorry but Adelson is paying the piper.
Trump bellowed that Massie should be kicked out of the Republican Party when Massie forced the Congress Critters to come back to D.C. to have their votes on the Stimulus Package recorded.
The White House, Senate, and House are institutions rotted to the core…. and I say throw in the Fourth Estate while you're at it.
I think Massie is very brave, but I hold out zero hope that he can clean out the detritus that infests the place and I seriously doubt that anyone will have his back.
The one article of clothing that we and the western Europeans wear in common are the cowardice and incompetence that runs rampant through our respective "governments".
With respect to cowardice and incomptence, you can add corruption.
Massie meant to say:
“The United States is a sovereign country on Planet Moon Watching Above You…! , so I don’t assign any credibility to decisions of the Plant Earth-driven International Criminal Court ,”
Since the United States is not a party state to the Rome Statute treaty, decisions of the ICC only affect it when they involve states that ARE parties to that treaty.
Magical immunity from the law in other countries isn’t “sovereignty,” it’s a negation of “sovereignty.” Massie’s statement is the equivalent of saying “The United States is a sovereign country, so I don’t assign any credibility to a traffic ticket in Budapest or a murder indictment in Tokyo.”