At the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Tuesday, Antony Blinken, the administration’s secretary of state, stated that it would be willing to retaliate against President Donald Trump’s sanctions against the International Criminal Court ( ICC).
According to Breitbart News, Biden lifted Trump’s sanctions against the ICC, which he had put in place to stop the ICC from conducting meritless war crimes studies against the United States and allies.
On Monday, the ICC’s chief prosecutor, Karim Khan, announced that he would find warrants against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, as well as three Hamas officials, over the continuing war in Gaza.
The leader denounced the ICC, but he did not make any announcements about how to punish or hinder the permits.
Sen. James Risch ( R- ID), the rank member of the committee, noted that Biden had reversed Trump’s punishment, and asked Blinken if the presidency had consider signing legislation aimed at restoring those restrictions.
Blinken replied:
This look at it… I think from our view, going backwards, in lifting sanctions that were recently implemented, the goal, the goal was to find the best way to protect our service members who served in Afghanistan. And we think we did that. But given the events of yesterday, I think we have to look at the correct steps to take to deal with, again, what is a genuinely wrongheaded choice.
The upcoming Senate bill would prohibit the ICC from retaliating against nations with an “independent, genuine, political judicial system” capable of handling any possible misconduct by users of their armed forces.
Blinken was repeatedly interrupted by anti-Israel and anti-war demonstrators who repeatedly referred to him as a “war criminal.”
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