Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) appeared on FNC’s “Special Report” on Monday and said the International Criminal Court (ICC) is pursuing Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and other Israeli officials. criticized.
Cotton also expressed disappointment with the Biden administration’s response.
“This is an outrageous moral equivalency, and the president has acknowledged it, and it speaks to how left-leaning the International Criminal Court is,” he said. “I was disappointed, for example, that President Biden did not deny the underlying allegations that Israel intentionally killed civilians and starved children.”
“The suffering of civilians in Gaza is real, but it is only happening because Hamas uses these civilians as human shields and props in its international political strategy,” Cotton continued. . “I have a bill that would impose sanctions on this corrupt prosecutor and the people in his office who are not only targeting Prime Minister Netanyahu now, but also targeting American soldiers in the past as well. We are working with Republican leadership in the House to pass this bill quickly and hopefully force Chuck Schumer to introduce it in the Senate, as he also condemned the International Criminal Court today. This is because they are doing so.”
“But I can tell you, the only reason we have to push this bill is because Joe Biden reversed Donald Trump’s decision in the past to sanction this very government and this very court. ,” he added. “This is a rigged court that Congress previously gave the president the power to go against. Joe Biden has not used that power. Donald Trump did.”
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