Republican lawmakers blast ICC over Netanyahu warrant

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*********** lawmakers blast ICC over Netanyahu warrant

Republicans are vowing retribution after the International ********* Court

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for ******** Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over his handling of the ongoing conflict in Gaza.

ICC chief prosecutor Karim Khan

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against the two leaders Monday, as well as the commander of ******’s military wing, Mohammed Diab Ibrahim Al-Masri, and ******** Defense Minister Yoav Gallant.

Republicans on key foreign policy panels blasted the decision and warned that they would make good on threats from earlier this month to punish the international tribunal, of which neither the ******* States nor ******* are members, if it went after ******** officials.

“I will feverishly work with colleagues on both sides of the aisle in both chambers to levy damning sanctions against the ICC,” Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) said shortly after the news became public.

In a statement, Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.), a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, said that “Khan’s kangaroo court has no jurisdiction in ******* to pursue these anti-Semitic and politically motivated ‘charges,’” adding that he looks “forward to making sure neither Khan, his associates nor their families will ever set foot again in the ******* States.”

Sen. Jim Risch (R-Idaho), the top *********** on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee blasted the action as “absurd” — saying in a statement the decision to simultaneously pursue arrest warrants against ****** leadership and ******** officials creates a “false moral equivalency” between the two groups’ actions.

House Republicans have introduced a number of measures taking action against the ICC, though Speaker Mike Johnson’s office did not immediately comment on whether the chamber would take any of them up.

The outrage was not isolated to Republicans. Democrats representing large ******* ********* communities also slammed the decision.

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, Rep. Ritchie Torres (D-N.Y.) slammed the warrants as “not justice but rather retribution against ******* for the original sin of existing as a ******* State and the subsequent sin of defending itself amid the deadliest day for Jews since the Holocaust.”

Progressives, however, celebrated the decision. “If Netanyahu comes to address Congress, I would be more than glad to show the ICC the way to the House floor to issue that warrant. Ditto for ****** leader,” Rep. Mark Pocan (D-Wis.), a past head of the Congressional Progressive Caucus,

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. A handful of progressive Democrats have previously indicated support for an arrest warrant.

The National Security Council didn’t respond to a request for comment. But the White House previously said that it

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into *******, as ******* isn’t a member of the court. Earlier this month, the State Department also issued a report which didn’t find that ******* had violated international humanitarian law during its war in Gaza.

Secretary of State Antony Blinken came out against the warrant requests Monday afternoon: “We ******* the prosecutor’s equivalence of ******* with ******. It is shameful,” he said in a statement. “This decision does nothing to help, and could jeopardize, ongoing efforts to reach a cease-***** agreement that would get hostages out and surge humanitarian assistance in.”

In a statement, President Joe Biden called the announcement “outrageous” and stated that “We will always stand with ******* against threats to its security.”

An arrest warrant could be “highly problematic for the Biden administration, as it effectively puts not only Netanyahu, but also Gallant — who the Biden team has viewed as a potential moderate alternative to Netanyahu — in the same category as Vladimir ******,” said Trita Parsi, executive vice president of the Quincy Institute think tank.

In March 2023, the

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for the Kremlin leader over the forced transfer of children to Russia after its invasion of Ukraine, limiting ******’s international travels. And Johnson has said he plans to invite Netanyahu to address Congress, raising the question of whether the Biden administration would defy the ICC during such a visit.

But the arrest warrants over the *******-Gaza conflict haven’t been issued yet, so there’s a chance the Biden administration won’t have to deal with the issue during the war. Negotiators have been trying for months to secure a cease-***** deal between ******* and ******, though talks

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After Khan’s filing, ICC judges will determine whether the evidence he provided is enough to formally issue the warrants. That process can take several months.

Olivia Beavers contributed to this report.

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