Legal Affairs
“This law no more stifles free speech than the presence of a thermometer would change the temperature,” wrote Pastor John Hagee and Ralph Reed.
Ankara has given unequivocal support to Hamas in its war against Israel.
The ICJ judges voted 15-to-1 against the Central American country’s request.
“Branding Israel’s leaders and soldiers as war criminals will pour jet fuel on the fires of antisemitism, those fires that are already raging on the campuses of America and across capitals around the world.”
“The possibility that they will issue arrest warrants ... is a scandal of historical magnitude,” said the Israeli premier.
House Speaker Mike Johnson calls the prospective warrants “disgraceful,” “lawless,” warns the ICC could issue them against American diplomats and military personnel.
Diplomatic efforts to thwart Chief Prosecutor Karim Ahmad Khan’s move have reportedly failed.
In a letter, two members of the Senate Armed Services Committee said “the United States and our allies should increase pressure.”
The court ruled that “there was a risk of irreparable harm to the Palestinian right to be protected from genocide,” Joan Donoghue said.
Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich has warned that unilateral recognition of a Palestinian state by the U.N. General Assembly will result in an immediate halt to all transfers of funds to the P.A.
Senior officials associated with the tribunal in The Hague said that the Americans had green-lit the move.
According to reports, an emergency meeting was convened at the Prime Minister’s Office.
