In response to the International Criminal Court (ICC) issuing arrest warrants against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Yoav Gallant along with the leaders of Hamas, President Biden made it clear those warrants don't hold any water during a speech at the White House Rose Garden today:
Let me be clear: We reject the ICC’s application for arrest warrants against Israeli leaders. Whatever these warrants imply, there is no equivalence between Israel and Hamas. It’s clear Israel must do all it can to ensure civilian protect but let me be clear: Contrary allegations against Israel made by the International Court of Justice, what is happening is not genocide. I reject that. We will always stand with Israel and its threats against its security.
Naturally, there is a fear in the back of my mind that he or a member of his administration will by this time tomorrow have publicly lectured Israel about defending herself much like when President Biden announced earlier this month he was partially withholding military aid approved by Congress to Israel the day after claiming his administration's commitment to Israel was "ironclad" during Holocaust Remembrance Day.
But at least for today, President Biden rejected the ICC's attempt at moral equivalence between Israel and Hamas and also rejected charges that Israel is responsible for genocide. The ICC makes no such distinction between perpetrator and victim and as such the Biden Administration is wise not to recognize its legitimacy let alone its edicts.
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