Previously, the Biden administration signaled it would support a Republican-led congressional move to punish the war crimes court.
Netanyahu blasted the new stance in an interview with Sirius XM’s “The Morgan Ortagus Show” that is set to air Sunday. | Jacquelyn Martin/AFP via Getty ImagesIsraeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he’s “surprised and disappointed” that the Biden administration won’t support sanctions on a war crimes court seeking his arrest.
“The United States said that they would, in fact, back the sanctions bill,” Netanyahu says in the interview. “I thought that was still the American position because there was bipartisan consensus just a few days ago.” The Biden administration is in talks with Congress on how best to respond to the arrest warrants. Republicans are pushing a sanctions bill while Democrats debate whether or not to sign onto the measure. President Joe Biden initially called the ICC’s decision “outrageous” and said it drew a false equivalence between the actions of a democratic state and a militant group.
The Trump administration imposed sanctions on the ICC’s former prosecutor, including revoking visas and blocking property access, for investigating alleged war crimes by American troops in Afghanistan and Israelis in Palestinian territories. The U.S. lifted those penalties in 2021, with Blinken calling them “inappropriate and ineffective” at the time.
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