US rights group condemns House push to impose ICC sanctions
In a statement before the House vote, Sarah Leah Whitson, the executive director of Democracy for the Arab World Now (DAWN), called the effort a “shameful attempt to obstruct justice and undermine the rule of law to shield Israeli leaders from accountability”.
The Washington, DC-based group’s advocacy director, Raed Jarrer, also said the bill would violate Article 70 of the Rome Statute which prohibits intimidation, retaliation, or obstruction of the court’s judicial proceedings.
“The House bill isn’t only an attack on efforts to hold Israeli abusers accountable for their heinous crimes against Palestinians, it’s an attack on human rights, justice, and the rule of law,” he said.
When has the US cared about any of that :/
House vote on ICC sanctions ‘symbolic’ but highlights Democratic Party split
This is really more of a symbolic move by part of the House of Representatives, at least at this moment. There’s still a long way before this would become law.
This is a Republican-drafted bill to sanction and impose visa restrictions on anyone who is a staff member or cooperates with the ICC, involving prosecutions of American citizens and allies, which of course is Israel.
What’s notable here is not only did it pass 247 to 155 in the House of Representatives, with all Republicans voting [in favour], but also 42 Democrats agreed to pass this bill in the House. That’s despite the protest of the Biden White House.
This has really threatened to split the Democratic Party and indeed, we’re seeing where that split has happened.
Biden's genocide is breaking the Democratic party as much as Trump is breaking the Republican party... Why don't they both split, no more 2 party system, 4 parties! (or more)
Trump says Biden ‘scrambling to fix disaster’ he created in Middle East
Former US President Donald Trump has accused Joe Biden of creating a “disaster” in the Middle East through his “incompetence”.
“Weak Joe Biden is only now scrambling to fix the DISASTER he created in the Middle East because he’s afraid of losing the Election,” he wrote on his social media platform, Truth Social.
Trump, who was convicted last week on 34 counts of falsifying business records, continued that he will fix Biden’s “mess” and promised to “bring Peace to ALL Parties once again”.
“We HAD Peace in the Middle East, and we can have it again, but it won’t be with Joe Biden in office,” he wrote.
Trump made similar promises to bring peace to the Middle East before his election in 2016 and presented a plan in 2020, which ultimately collapsed. In 2021, he blamed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for its failure, saying he didn’t think he “ever wanted to make peace”.
Trump was buddies with Netanyahu and helped him get back in power. Trump also moved the US embassy to Jerusalem, angering Hamas further.
Biden made Trump's mess worse, but Trump helped the current disaster come into being.
Israel's right-wing transformation was accelerated by the Netanyahu-Trump alliance
https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2023-03-27/what-netanyahu-and-israelis-learned-from-the-trump-playbook
Biden must push Israel to ‘stop slaughter and starvation’ in Gaza: CAIR
The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) says despite pushing for a ceasefire deal to end the war, the US government “continues to fund the Israeli government’s daily genocidal war crimes against Palestinians in Rafah and the rest of Gaza”.
The advocacy group pointed to an Oxfam report released this week that found 85 percent of Palestinian children in Gaza did not eat for a whole day at least once in the three days before the survey was conducted.
“The Biden administration must take concrete action to force the Israeli government stop the slaughter and starvation in Gaza,” said Ibrahim Hooper, CAIR’s national communications director.
“The genocide must end now, without delay.”
That's exactly what Biden's 'ceasefire plan' is, more delay, more distraction.
