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Antony Blinken has indicated that he will work with American lawmakers on potential sanctions against the International Criminal Court after it sought arrest warrants for Israel’s prime minister and defence minister, setting the stage for a confrontation with the world court in the Hague.

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[-] ButtermilkBiscuit@lemmy.world 73 points 5 months ago

Yes that will help, sanction the people responsible for calling out war crimes when they.......call out war crimes.

[-] Cheradenine@sh.itjust.works 43 points 5 months ago

I'm trying to wrap my head around how devoted to this you must be to jeopardize your reelection.

No one I know supports Israels actions, no one I know supports hamas actions. Everyone I know agrees it is genocide.

[-] ghostdoggtv@lemmy.world -2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Their subservience to Israel is an insult to everything the United States is supposed to stand for. Joe Biden hates America and you know it's true because he unconditionally supports the state of Israel.

[-] floofloof@lemmy.ca 22 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Just for the sake of balance, Republicans also unconditionally support the state of Israel, and are, if anything, even more uniformly enthusiastic for its actions in Gaza and the West Bank than Democrats. Americans have no good electoral options on this issue.

[-] Cheradenine@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 months ago

I don't believe that is true.

Whether it is global politics, the second coming, or just something out of my sphere I don't understand it.

[-] ghostdoggtv@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

America has lost its independence from the crown by way of Israel's ties to the British and our shackling to THEIR geopolitical constructs by way of the Balfour declaration and the catastrophic administration of mandatory Palestine. The corporatized political economic laundry machine between the 3 (UK/I/USA) completely undermines any democratically rooted ability of the popular states to regulate colonial influence. "Where we go one, we go all." The world is in for some incredibly dark times ahead.

[-] girlfreddy@lemmy.ca 28 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

America's acting like the former apartheid South Africa and Russia right now.

[-] Shiggles@sh.itjust.works 26 points 5 months ago

Isn’t south africa doing the right thing this time around? Something about “we know an apartheid state when we see one”.

[-] girlfreddy@lemmy.ca 9 points 5 months ago

That's fair. I will amend my statement to say the "former" SA gov't.

[-] wildbus8979@sh.itjust.works 15 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Who was supporting South Africa back then? The US and Israel.

[-] Linkerbaan@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago

You'd almost say it is...

Fascism...

[-] NatakuNox@lemmy.world 24 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

It's crazy how profoundly immoral and blind to so much suffering our country is. This mindset will be the end of the US as we know it.

[-] intrepid@lemmy.ca 21 points 5 months ago

The rest of the world should sanction these US-based thugs and shame them constantly on the media. It's infuriating to see them commit all these atrocities and then smugly pretend to be the heroes.

[-] theacharnian@lemmy.ca 17 points 5 months ago

They kill off international law and then act all surprised when autocracies do crimes.

[-] Deestan@lemmy.world 11 points 5 months ago

If heads of state can be held responsible for war crimes in the middle east, it sets a dangerous precedent for the US.

[-] small44@lemmy.world 8 points 5 months ago
[-] autotldr@lemmings.world 2 points 5 months ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:


“We reject the prosecutor’s equivalence of Israel with Hamas,” Mr Blinken said, warning that the decision could jeopardise efforts to have a ceasefire in Gaza, agree a hostage exchange deal and increase humanitarian aid for the starving Palestinians.

At a hearing of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Tuesday, Mr Blinken was asked if he would support legislation aimed at preventing the world court from “sticking its nose in the business of countries that have an independent, legitimate, democratic judicial system”.

The US sanctioned ICC officials Fatou Bensouda and Phakiso Mochochoko in 2020 for seeking to investigate alleged war crimes in Afghanistan.

The latest ICC war crimes allegations are “significant”, Congresswoman Ilhan Omar said in a statement, adding that “the application for arrest warrants is merely the beginning of a judicial process”.

Mr Netanyahu, on his part, has labelled the ICC’s decision to seek arrest warrants against him and his defence minister “a complete distortion of reality”.

Meanwhile, the leaders of Norway, Ireland and Spain have said their countries will formally recognise Palestine as a state for the sake of “peace in the Middle East”, Al Jazeera reported.


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