Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has strongly criticized the International Criminal Court (ICC) prosecutor, Karim Khan, accusing him of issuing false charges and creating dangerous false equivalencies between Israel and Hamas. President Joe Biden and other U.S. officials have reiterated that the United States does not recognize the jurisdiction of the ICC and rejects any equivalence between the actions of Israel and Hamas. The ICC prosecutor has charged both Israeli and Hamas officials with war crimes, including Israeli PM Netanyahu and Defense Minister Gallant, a move that has sparked significant controversy. Critics argue that equating a democratic state like Israel with a terrorist organization like Hamas is morally repugnant. Biden emphasized that the U.S. does not agree with how the ICC is exercising its jurisdiction, particularly in relation to allegations such as the use of starvation as a weapon of war.
Stop all the crocodile tears about the ICC's (non-)statement of "moral equivalence" between Netanyahu and Hamas. If the ICC prosecutor had NOT charged Israeli officials, they would pretend that Hamas's war crimes somehow justify their own. They don't. https://t.co/umJ6PhPoPd
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The United States does not recognize the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court (#ICC) and there is no equivalence between #Israel and Hamas, #US President Joe Biden says. https://t.co/SZl3PIHNxq https://t.co/heB98ASLTS
President Biden: "We've made our position clear on the ICC. We don’t recognize their jurisdiction, ICC, the way it’s being exercised. It's that simple. We don’t think there’s an equivalence between what Israel did and what Hamas did." https://t.co/3pdwKjy01B
"We've made our position clear. We don't recognize the jurisdiction," President Biden says when asked about ICC arrest warrant application against Israeli leaders and if Israel is using starvation as a weapon of war. Biden says he disagrees with "the way it's been exercised."
Biden on the ICC: "We don't think there's an equivalence between what Israel did and what Hamas did." https://t.co/yyTgv7k7Mo
"Not only are the charges by #ICC Prosecutor Khan against Israeli PM Netanyahu & Defense Minister Gallant entirely baseless, it is an egregious perversion of justice and abominable moral equivalence with the terrorists and rapists of Hamas." https://t.co/SF8VxF6kkn
Beyond the bellyaching about "moral equivalency" that the ICC never implied, imagine if the prosecutor had charged only Hamas. That would have reinforced Netanyahu's convenient self-delusion that Hamas's war crimes justify his own. That's not the law. https://t.co/umJ6PhPoPd
It's shocking that the International Criminal Court would imply any equivalency between the actions of Israel and Hamas. Hamas, a terrorist organization, is the real criminal involved in this conflict. It’s abhorrent that the ICC would attempt to argue otherwise. https://t.co/bLOo8MrZLp
As I said in this @JewishChron op-ed, to draw moral equivalence between a genocidal terrorist organisation like Hamas and a democratic state like Israel, which is no different to equating Churchill and Hitler, is abominable and morally repugnant. @IntlCrimCourt @KarimKhanQC https://t.co/fJPx0wVyz6
On the ICC, our government is clear: there is no equivalency between Israel and Hamas. “What I will say is troubling though, is the sense of equivalency between the democratically elected leaders of Israel and the bloodthirsty terrorists that lead up Hamas.” https://t.co/Me9DZWuJ3k
Biden is wrong. The ICC prosecutor did NOT equate Hamas and Israel. He charged both Israeli and Hamas officials for their own separate war crimes. Indeed, given the severity of the offenses, it would have been outrageous had he ignored one side’s crimes. https://t.co/umJ6PhPoPd
"This is a rogue prosecutor that has put false charges and created false symmetries that are both dangerous and false." @netanyahu slams ICC prosecutor over war-crimes warrant. https://t.co/ebeO9Dn6On