House Speaker Mike Johnson is urging the Biden administration to help block the International Criminal Court from issuing arrest warrants against top Israeli officials.
Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., is calling on President Biden to utilize the U.S.'s influence on the world stage to block the International Criminal Court's reported plan to issue arrest warrants for top Israeli officials, including Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. If true, the warrants would be 'baseless and illegitimate' and prove a blow to U.S. national security, Johnson said in an impassioned statement Monday.
Instead of wrongly targeting Israel, the ICC should pursue charges against Iran and its terror proxies, including Hamas, for engaging in horrific war crimes. The Biden administration must immediately and unequivocally demand that the ICC stand down and the U.S. should use every available tool to prevent such an abomination.' Fox News Digital reached out to the White House for a response. State Department deputy spokesman Vidant Patel would not confirm or deny whether the U.S.
Like the U.S., Israel is not a member of the ICC, but the Palestinian territories were admitted in April 2015. 'Under my leadership, Israel will never accept any attempt by the ICC to undermine its inherent right of self-defense,' Netanyahu said in a statement on X Friday. 'The threat to seize the soldiers and officials of the Middle East’s only democracy and the world’s only Jewish state is outrageous. We will not bow to it.
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