Posted on 05/22/2024 3:25:49 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
At the Senate Tuesday, Secretary of State Antony Blinken had to contend with protesters upset over the Biden administration’s support for Israel during its brutal war on Gaza. Screams of “war criminal” and “butcher of Gaza” broke out on the Senate floor before protesters were forcibly removed.
Blinken was called to testify before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in a review of the State Department’s budget for the 2025 fiscal year, and later the Senate appropriations subcommittee. While Blinken was speaking during the first hearing, protesters who had red paint on their hands stood up and called him “bloody Blinken,” shouting that “the blood of 40,000 Palestinians” is on his hands.
“Blinken, you will be remembered as the butcher of Gaza!” one protester yelled as Capitol Police officers removed him from the hearing. “You will be remembered for murdering innocent Palestinians.”
The antiwar organization Code Pink posted video of the interruption to X (formerly Twitter) and also posted video of one protester being picked up and carried outside of the room by police.
In a brief moment of levity, Senator Lindsey Graham warned in the hearing that if the ICC followed through on pursuing warrants for Israeli officials, “we’re next.” His statement drew applause from protesters, who welcomed the news.
“You can clap all you want to,” Graham said. “They tried to come after our soldiers in Afghanistan but reason prevailed.… What I hope to happen is that we level sanctions against the ICC for this outrage.”
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Interfering with an official proceeding. Life in prison?
I always thought he looked sort of goofy.
Has anyone else used this line or did I just make it up?
Deer to another deer: “You have that Blinken-lost-in-the- headlights look again.” 🦌🦌👀
If that were enforced then the screaming banshees interrupting the hearings for the Brett Kavanaugh nomination would still be in prison. They didn’t even have to pay for the long gouges and scratch marks on the old wooden doors to the hearing chambers. Metal rakes and screwdrivers.
Antony Blinken is not used to being the "bad guy".
Interfering with an official proceeding. Life in prison?
The enemy of my enemy is still my enemy. But for now, “let them fight”.
The Democratic Party will be pro-Hamas.
LOL! Good 1
“What I hope to happen is that we level sanctions against the ICC”
Judicial overreach should be a statutory crime and carry the same penalty as sedition.
And yes, the statute making judicial overreach a crime should have been written long ago.
Oh, palestooges. My new term for the hamas-shole living fidiots.
GERMANY SAYS IT WOULD ARREST NETENYAHU, SO DOES FRANCE AND NORWAY. WHY ARE WE DEFENDING THEM FROM PUTIN?!!
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