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Hours after ICC issues warrants for Netanyahu, Gallant, Biden recycles six-month-old statement

“There is no equivalence—none—between Israel and Hamas,” the U.S. president said, again.

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu welcomes President Joe Biden at Ben-Gurion Airport, Oct. 18, 2023. Photo by Avi Ohayon/GPO.

U.S. President Joe Biden stated on Thursday evening that the International Criminal Court’s decision to issue arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant is “outrageous.”

“Let me be clear once again: whatever the ICC might imply, there is no equivalence—none—between Israel and Hamas,” Biden said. “We will always stand with Israel against threats to its security.”

The U.S. president didn’t name either Israeli official in his statement, in which he referred only to “Israeli leaders.”

Biden stated nearly the same thing on May 20, when he said: “The ICC prosecutor’s application for arrest warrants against Israeli leaders is outrageous. And let me be clear: whatever this prosecutor might imply, there is no equivalence—none—between Israel and Hamas. We will always stand with Israel against threats to its security.”

The ICC is a stand-alone court in The Hague, which is not part of the United Nations.

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