By Free Republic | Created at 2024-11-18 23:28:56 | Updated at 2024-11-19 01:35:46
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Thune threatens International Criminal Court with sanctions if it doesn’t drop Netanyahu warrant for arrest
Fox News ^ | November 18, 2024 12:38pm EST | Caitlin McFall
Posted on 11/18/2024 3:28:02 PM PST by Olog-hai
South Dakota Republican Sen. John Thune on Sunday threatened to slap the International Criminal Court (ICC) with sanctions if it did not drop its application for an arrest warrant against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Thune — who was selected Wednesday to be the next Senate Majority Leader once the GOP takes the upper chamber come January 2025 — warned that if the current Democratic leader does not take on the international court, he will.
“If the ICC and its prosecutor do not reverse their outrageous and unlawful actions to pursue arrest warrants against Israeli officials, the Senate should immediately pass sanctions legislation, as the House has already done on a bipartisan basis,” Thune wrote on X. “If Majority Leader Schumer does not act, the Senate Republican majority will stand with our key ally Israel and make this — and other supportive legislation — a top priority in the next Congress.” […]
The U.S. does not officially recognize the ICC’s authority, but it is not the first time Washington has looked to halt the court’s actions.
In 2020, the Trump administration opposed attempts by the ICC to investigate U.S. soldiers and the CIA involved in alleged war crimes between 2003-2004 “in secret detention facilities in Afghanistan,” and issued sanctions against ICC prosecutors. …
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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Israel; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: icc; netanyahu; schumer; thune; un
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