Hours after an International Criminal Court prosecutor sought arrest warrants for senior Israeli officials alongside Hamas terrorists, and after members of Congress denounced that decision, U.S. President Joe Biden and Secretary of State Antony Blinken released statements.
“The ICC prosecutor’s application for arrest warrants against Israeli leaders is outrageous,” the president said in a very terse statement. “Let me be clear: whatever this prosecutor might imply, there is no equivalence—none—between Israel and Hamas. We will always stand with Israel against threats to its security.”
Washington “fundamentally rejects” the announcement from the United Nations body in The Hague, Blinken wrote in a heftier statement.

The decision by the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court to seek arrest warrants for Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu and Defense Minister Yoav Gallant “is beyond outrageous and shows the extent to which the international judicial system is in danger of collapsing, Israeli President Isaac Herzog said on Monday.
“Taken in bad faith, this one-sided move represents a unilateral political step that emboldens terrorists around the world, and violates all the basic rules of the court according to the principle of complementarity and other legal norms,” he said.

When a small conference was held this spring in Israel’s heartland on the laws related to the Parah Adumah, both Hamas and Hezbollah posted the ad for the event on their Telegram pages.
Just months earlier, a Hamas spokesman in Gaza had chosen the 100th day of the Israel-Hamas war to cite the relocation of five red heifers to Israel from the Lone Star State as the reason for the Oct. 7 massacre.

Israeli politicians on Monday slammed the decision of the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), Karim Khan, to issue arrest warrants for Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Yoav Gallant for “war crimes” along with the leaders of the murderous Hamas terror organization. Minister Benny Gantz said: “The State of Israel is […]

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Israeli politicians have responded with indifference to the news of Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi’s death in a helicopter crash on Monday. An unnamed Israeli official was quick to deny any involvement in the incident, telling Reuters, “It wasn’t us.” MK Avigdor Liberman, chair of the opposition Yisrael Beytenu party, downplayed the significance of Raisi’s death, […]