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Because the war criminals committing genocide are foreign leaders who exist outside of U.S. legal jurisdiction, that can only prosecuted by waging war against their respective countries and capturing them. In the case of Israel, which I assume you're referencing here, this is a non-starter.
SBF and Ellison are U.S. citizens living within U.S. borders who can be arrested and brought into state custody quite easily when they break U.S. laws.
It seems unfair at face value, but the alternative is just "America: World Police", and that's why we can only arrest people and charge them with crimes inside our sovereign borders and on the battlefield.
And Kissinger? Nixon? Bush? Clinton? Bush? Biden? Trump?