WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Jim Risch (R-Idaho), Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today spoke following the International Criminal Court’s (ICC) decision to apply for arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the Israeli Defense Chief. Issued a statement. Yoav Bravery:
“Today’s ICC decision is absurd. The ICC, like the rest of the international community, remains obsessed with targeting Israel in its time of need. There is no reason why the Court should investigate Israel as it is not party to the Rome Statute and Israel has a fully functional judiciary.
“The fact that the court applied for warrants for Hamas and Israeli officials at the same time provides a false moral equivalence between their actions. Israel has responded to Hamas’s reckless aggression with extreme caution for civilians while Hamas has raped and murdered Israeli and American civilians. “Today’s actions damage the Court’s credibility and seriously harm legitimate accountability efforts where actual war crimes are being committed in Ukraine, Syria, and across Africa.”
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