Republican Senators Threaten International Criminal Court With ‘Severe Sanctions’: ‘Target Israel and We Will Target You’

[toomuchtime_]

Twelve Republican senators signed a letter threatening members of the International Criminal Court with “severe sanctions” and a ban from the United States after it was reported that the ICC was preparing an arrest warrant for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.


The letter – which was signed by Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL), and Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC), among others – warned ICC prosecutor Karim Ahmad Khan that any attempts to issue an arrest warrant for Netanyahu or other Israeli officials would “result in severe sanctions” against both Khan and the ICC as a whole.

“By issuing warrants, you would be calling into question the legitimacy of Israel’s laws, legal system, and democratic form of government,” the letter claimed, before protesting that the ICC had not issued similar arrest warrants for Chinese President Xi Jinping, Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, or Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.

The senators continued:

Neither Israel nor the United States are members of the ICC and are therefore outside of your organization’s supposed jurisdiction. If you issue a warrant for the arrest of the Israeli leadership, we will interpret this not only as a threat to Israel’s sovereignty but 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 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 the report, we will move to end all American support for the ICC, sanction your employees and associates, and bar you and your families from the United States. You have been warned.

As noted by Zeteo founder Mehdi Hasan, who published the letter in full on Monday, the American Service-Members’ Protection Act threateningly cited by the senators was signed into law by former President George W. Bush in 2002 and “has since become widely known as ‘The Hague Invasion Act’ because it authorizes the U.S. president ‘to use all means necessary and appropriate’ to bring about the release not just of U.S. persons but also allies who are imprisoned or detained by the ICC.”

The letter was signed by McConnell, Rubio, and Scott, along with Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR), Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), Sen. Katie Britt (R-AL), Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL), Sen. Ted Budd (R-NC), Sen. Pete Ricketts (R-NE), Sen. Kevin Cramer (R-ND), and Sen. Bill Hagerty (R-TN).

On Friday, the ICC demanded an end to “intimidation” against the court, seemingly in response to the senators’ letter, which was dated April 24.

“The Office insists that all attempts to impede, intimidate or improperly influence its officials cease immediately,” the Court declared in a statement.

MSN

And on the other side we have antisemitic anti-American riots on college campuses.

 

[IM2]

Netanyahu should be arrested.

 

[HikerGuy83]

On Friday, the ICC demanded an end to “intimidation” against the court, seemingly in response to the senators’ letter, which was dated April 24.

Tell him to GFY.

 

[DudleySmith]

The ICC is a running joke, as is most farces, like the UN. The U.S. needs to quit funding them and off-shore the UN to some crappy island somewhere.

 

[rampart]

Twelve Republican senators signed a letter threatening members of the International Criminal Court with “severe sanctions” and a ban from the United States after it was reported that the ICC was preparing an arrest warrant for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.


The letter – which was signed by Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL), and Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC), among others – warned ICC prosecutor Karim Ahmad Khan that any attempts to issue an arrest warrant for Netanyahu or other Israeli officials would “result in severe sanctions” against both Khan and the ICC as a whole.

“By issuing warrants, you would be calling into question the legitimacy of Israel’s laws, legal system, and democratic form of government,” the letter claimed, before protesting that the ICC had not issued similar arrest warrants for Chinese President Xi Jinping, Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, or Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.

The senators continued:


As noted by Zeteo founder Mehdi Hasan, who published the letter in full on Monday, the American Service-Members’ Protection Act threateningly cited by the senators was signed into law by former President George W. Bush in 2002 and “has since become widely known as ‘The Hague Invasion Act’ because it authorizes the U.S. president ‘to use all means necessary and appropriate’ to bring about the release not just of U.S. persons but also allies who are imprisoned or detained by the ICC.”

The letter was signed by McConnell, Rubio, and Scott, along with Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR), Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), Sen. Katie Britt (R-AL), Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL), Sen. Ted Budd (R-NC), Sen. Pete Ricketts (R-NE), Sen. Kevin Cramer (R-ND), and Sen. Bill Hagerty (R-TN).

On Friday, the ICC demanded an end to “intimidation” against the court, seemingly in response to the senators’ letter, which was dated April 24.

“The Office insists that all attempts to impede, intimidate or improperly influence its officials cease immediately,” the Court declared in a statement.

MSN

And on the other side we have antisemitic anti-American riots on college campuses.

all right we get it, israel is above international law.and is not required to act civilized.

the icc is an important component of international law and an institution we should be supporting.

at some point the leaders of one of our political parties will be behind that thick glass in the hague. where they belong.

 

[cnm]

The ICC is a running joke, as is most farces, like the UN. The U.S. needs to quit funding them and off-shore the UN to some crappy island somewhere.

One can see the US will never be short of hubris. The sort of hubris that can complain about funding a court the US has refused to join.

 

[DudleySmith]

One can see the US will never be short of hubris. The sort of hubris that can complain about funding a court the US has refused to join.

Yes, you do spew a lot of it.

 

[cnm]

off-shore the UN to some crappy island somewhere

It's not already?

 

[cnm]

Yes, you do spew a lot of it.

It was your vomit about the US funding the ICC, not mine.

 

[DudleySmith]

It was your vomit about the US funding the ICC, not mine.

It's a spawn of the UN, that collection of dictators, perverts, organized crime families, and Islamo-nazi terrorist regimes you love. You keep trying to be clever, though; self-delusion obviously works for you. The Kenyan Muslim communist loved the ICC, same as you do.

The US-ICC Relationship

The United States (US) historically has been and continues to be an an ardent supporter of international criminal justice, having played critical roles in the establishment and operations of the United Nations (UN) War Crimes Commission, the World War II tribunals at Nuremberg and Tokyo, and the...

www.aba-icc.org

 

[cnm]

It's a spawn of the UN, that collection of dictators, perverts, organized crime families, and Islamo-nazi terrorist regimes you love. You keep trying to be clever, though; self-delusion obviously works for you. The Kenyan Muslim communist loved the ICC, same as you do.

The US-ICC Relationship

The United States (US) historically has been and continues to be an an ardent supporter of international criminal justice, having played critical roles in the establishment and operations of the United Nations (UN) War Crimes Commission, the World War II tribunals at Nuremberg and Tokyo, and the...

www.aba-icc.org

What has that to do with its funding? Has it emptied your bank account?

 

[cnm]

The evolution of funding for the International Criminal Court: Budgets, donors and gender justice​

As such, our data available on the Harvard Dataverse site show that the ICC’s largest funders are large European economies, Japan, South Korea, Australia, and Brazil.​

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14754835.2022.2156276

​

 

[rampart]

What has that to do with its funding? Has it emptied your bank account?

is ted turner still funding the u n? he picked it up when reagan stopped por un funding.

 

[rylah]

Netanyahu should be arrested.

PM Ben Gurion personally made sure, rapists were castrated before they get to court.

Beside agenda, some people are very much attached to their privates.

 

[toomuchtime_]

all right we get it, israel is above international law.and is not required to act civilized.

the icc is an important component of international law and an institution we should be supporting.

at some point the leaders of one of our political parties will be behind that thick glass in the hague. where they belong.

If you did get it, you would know that Israel has meticulously followed International Humanitarian Law throughout this war, and, although it sounds strange, has made this the most civilized war in history.

The ICC, on the other hand, is a political organization that fronts a "court" that takes orders from its political backers. The last prosecutor found no fault for Israel in the Mavi Marava incident, but that was not the decision the states backing the ICC wanted, so they forced her to open the investigation twice more.

 

[DudleySmith]

What has that to do with its funding? Has it emptied your bank account?

So now you're going to babble some nonsense after proving you don't know a damn thing and are just sniveling. Okay.

 

[cnm]

PM Ben Gurion personally made sure, rapists were castrated before they get to court.

How about land thieves?

 

[Crepitus]

Twelve Republican senators signed a letter threatening members of the International Criminal Court with “severe sanctions” and a ban from the United States after it was reported that the ICC was preparing an arrest warrant for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.


The letter – which was signed by Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL), and Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC), among others – warned ICC prosecutor Karim Ahmad Khan that any attempts to issue an arrest warrant for Netanyahu or other Israeli officials would “result in severe sanctions” against both Khan and the ICC as a whole.

“By issuing warrants, you would be calling into question the legitimacy of Israel’s laws, legal system, and democratic form of government,” the letter claimed, before protesting that the ICC had not issued similar arrest warrants for Chinese President Xi Jinping, Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, or Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.

The senators continued:


As noted by Zeteo founder Mehdi Hasan, who published the letter in full on Monday, the American Service-Members’ Protection Act threateningly cited by the senators was signed into law by former President George W. Bush in 2002 and “has since become widely known as ‘The Hague Invasion Act’ because it authorizes the U.S. president ‘to use all means necessary and appropriate’ to bring about the release not just of U.S. persons but also allies who are imprisoned or detained by the ICC.”

The letter was signed by McConnell, Rubio, and Scott, along with Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR), Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), Sen. Katie Britt (R-AL), Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL), Sen. Ted Budd (R-NC), Sen. Pete Ricketts (R-NE), Sen. Kevin Cramer (R-ND), and Sen. Bill Hagerty (R-TN).

On Friday, the ICC demanded an end to “intimidation” against the court, seemingly in response to the senators’ letter, which was dated April 24.

“The Office insists that all attempts to impede, intimidate or improperly influence its officials cease immediately,” the Court declared in a statement.

MSN

And on the other side we have antisemitic anti-American riots on college campuses.

12 republicans can't do shit.

Hell, I doubt they could decide where to have lunch without Democratic help.

 

[rylah]

How about land thieves?

Beware with what you call for,

there're many nations in the region preparing to follow
Israel's example, and get rid of the yoke of Arab imperialism

 

[cnm]

Beware with what you call for,

Calling Israelis, especially those stealing the West Bank.