Posted on 05/23/2024 4:54:52 PM PDT by Angelino97
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said he wants to work with Congress on legislation to penalize the International Criminal Court after it applied for arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Yoav Gallant.
“Given the events of yesterday, I think we have to look at the appropriate steps to take to deal with again, what is a profoundly wrongheaded decision,” Blinken said at a State Department budget hearing with the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
Blinken’s comments were an early indication of the Biden administration’s openness to taking action against the Netherlands-based court for its application for arrest warrants for the senior Israeli officials. The court’s chief prosecutor Karim Khan also issued warrants for senior Hamas officials, including its leader in Gaza, Yahya Sinwar.
Blinken was responding to questions by the ranking member of the committee, Republican Sen. James Risch, who asked if Blinken would work with him on legislation that “includes the question of the ICC sticking its nose in the business of countries that have an independent legitimate, democratic judicial system.”
“The devil’s in the details, so let’s see what you got, and we can take from there,” said Blinken, adding that he wants to work with the committee “on a bipartisan basis.”
In a Senate Appropriations subcommittee hearing on Tuesday afternoon, Blinken said he would “welcome” working with Sen. Lindsey Graham on “bipartisan” sanctions against the ICC.
The Biden administration came out forcefully against Khan on Monday for his decision to apply for the warrants against top Israel officials on charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity.
“It’s clear Israel wants to do all it can to ensure civilian protection,” said Biden at a White House reception marking Jewish American Heritage Month. “Let me be clear: What’s happening is not genocide.”
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And warrants for Z and P, too, no doubt.
I’m old enough to remember when the ICC were the “good guys” because they issued an arrest warrant for The Putin...
I am no Blinken fan. Often, he appears very strange and not up to his job.
I call him “Short Pants” Blinken, banging his sippy cup on the kiddie table of international diplomacy to get attention, while the adults talk about real geopolitics.
Seeing will be believing. Blinken and Biden are about as trustworthy and well- intentioned as rabid rhinosauri
IIRC-—THE HEAD OF THE ICC is a MUSLIM.
Where is the MYSTERY???
He knew that was total BS, yet it allowed Biden to use it to say the laptop story was “Garbage”—taking that issue off the table during the debate with Trump.
Blinken is a totally dishonest POS.
Blinken is a career staffer who has no executive presence and no idea how the world has changed. He seems to think the US can just throw its weight around like it was still 1949 or some such bygone era. So just how are he and Graham going to “punish” the ICC when 1)we don’t recognize them and 2) they don’t care what we think.
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True.
Agreed. But these slimy Democrats have suddenly realized that THEY will be next when the ICC decides to affix some war crimes to them. Ergo the seeming "change of heart" as the years go by.
It has been rumored that Biden and his cronies are behind the ICC false condemnation of Israel. Why should Blinken get involved except to neuter strong voices coming from Congress that would expose the ICC as a pathetic joke.
It’s just a political maneuver, trying to be pro-Hamas & pro-Israel simultaneously!
The "Duality of Man", Jungian thing.
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