The No. 2 Senate Republican plans to condemn the ICC for its embrace of ‘the legal fiction and the moral fraud that Israel violates human rights, that sovereignty doesn’t matter and that Israel has no right to defend itself.
On Tuesday, Senate Democrats blocked a Republican-led effort to advance legislation imposing sanctions on the International Criminal Court (ICC), citing concerns about its broad impact on US allies and businesses, most notably Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu against whom the ICC had issued an arrest warrant.
Before you shuffle off the world stage in a stupor for the last time, 'Genocide Joe', let's review your legacy report card.
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Joe Biden’s Indictment
The former president’s unexpectedly powerful farewell address rightly condemned the very oligarchy he empowered.
If the U.S. president is charged with impeding an investigation, it could make nearly all international visits a headache and a risk.
Biden and Blinken are not the first US leaders to justify and participate in genocide, to create a desert and call it peace, but they have done it in front of the eyes of the world and they have done it at a time when everything else is coming apart.
President Joe Biden, who leaves office next week, announced on Friday that he was commuting the sentences of nearly 2,500 people convicted of non-violent drug offenses, saying he has now issued more individual pardons and commutations than any predecessor.
Week one of Trump's presidency reveals dual approach: public backing for Israel through executive orders while pressuring Netanyahu behind the scenes on hostage deal and Lebanon.
European officials have warned that the bill, prompted by an arrest warrant for Israeli leader Benjamin Netanyahu, would irreparably harm the institution.
Will Senate Democrats block a bill to sanction the International Criminal Court?
Karim Khan said that a crime against humanity was being committed by top officials against “Afghan women and girls, as well as the LGBTQI+ community.”