The Oscar-winning actor’s reported phone call to the White House involved Amal Clooney’s work with the International Criminal Court to seek arrest warrants against Israel leaders.
Honoree US actor George Clooney and his wife Lebanese-British barrister Amal Clooney arrive for the 45th Kennedy Center Honors at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, DC, on December 4, 2022.
But Clooney, as well as the Biden re-election campaign, may still need to address criticism that the Academy Award-winning actor, who donated $500,000 to Biden’s campaign in 2020, was able to get access to a top White House official in order to lodge his complaints. On May 20, Karim A. A. Khan, chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, announced that he was seeking to charge three top Hamas leaders, as well as Netanyahu and Gallant, with war crimes and crimes against humanity, related to Hamas’ Oct. 7 terrorist attack on Israel and Israel’s response.“The attacks by Hamas in Israel on Oct.
Biden, along with other top Democratic and Republican leaders, objected to the ICC’s move to charge both Israeli and Hamas leaders. He suggested it placed the leaders of a democratic nation, responding to a brutal terrorist attack, on an equal footing with the organization that launched the attack and whose goal is to eradicate that nation, the Washington Post reported.
But the White House has since voiced opposition to sanctions, saying they were “not the right answer” and an “overreach,” the Washington Post reported.
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