It’s good to see the entire federal government united and correct in their condemnation of the ICC.
The State Department was out with a longer statement that denounced the court for pairing Israel with Hamas.
‘We reject the Prosecutor’s equivalence of Israel with Hamas. It is shameful. Hamas is a brutal terrorist organization that carried out the worst massacre of Jews since the Holocaust and is still holding dozens of innocent people hostage, including Americans,’ Secretary of State Antony Blinken said in a statement.
And White House spokesman John Kirby noted that ‘we don’t believe the ICC has any jurisdiction in the matter.’
House Speaker Mike Johnson blasted the ICC and threatened to hold sanctions against the court.
‘The ICC has no authority over Israel or the United States, and today’s baseless and illegitimate decision should face global condemnation,’ he said.
‘Congress is reviewing all options, including sanctions, to punish the ICC and ensure its leadership faces consequences if they proceed. If the ICC is allowed to threaten Israeli leaders, ours could be next,’ he added.
Republican Rep. Elise Stefanik was in Israel when the decision came down.
‘As Bibi leads @Israel through one of the darkest moments in its history, we must stand unequivocally with Israel against Iran and their proxies who seek to destroy the only democracy in the Middle East,’ she wrote on X.
When your foreign policies always seek to straddle a fence you’re going to get a picket up the ass every now and then. Dollar diplomacy only works when the recipients fear consequences for noncompliance and right now nobody believes there’s a bite behind the Biden/Blinken bark.