US isolation deepens with ICC’s Netanyahu arrest warrant
The White House was quick to condemn the arrest warrants for Netanyahu and his former defense minister, fueling accusations of a double standard.
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WASHINGTON — When it comes to Israel, Joe Biden is not the lame-duck president some hoped he would be.
Far from increasing pressure on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government, this week the Biden administration cast the lone UN Security Council vote opposing a Gaza cease-fire resolution, lobbied against a US Senate bid to block arm sales to Israel and condemned the International Criminal Court's issuance of arrest warrants for Netanyahu and his former defense minister, Yoav Gallant.
”We fundamentally reject the court’s decision,” White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters Thursday. “We remain deeply concerned by the prosecutor’s rush to seek arrest warrants and the troubling process errors that led to this decision.”
