For the Republican majority in the House of Representatives, based on the text initiative, this vote on Tuesday, June 4, shows that “the United States stands firmly with Israel.”
On Tuesday, June 4, the US House of Representatives voted in favor of a bill that would impose sanctions on members of the International Criminal Court, whose prosecutor wants to issue an arrest warrant for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
The proposal is unlikely to win approval in the Democratic-majority Senate, and President Joe Biden has expressed his opposition.
White House critics
But for the Republican majority in the House of Representatives, based on the text initiative, this vote on Tuesday shows that “the United States stands firmly with Israel and rejects international bureaucrats, without any reason, issuing arrest warrants against Israeli leaders on charges of disrespecting international law.” Crimes exist,” said their leader, House Speaker Mike Johnson.
On May 20, ICC Prosecutor Karim Khan requested arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Hamas leaders for war crimes and crimes against humanity in the Gaza Strip and in Israel.
If a panel of judges agree, it will be up to the 124 member states (neither the United States nor Israel) to ultimately make the arrests.
President Joe Biden then criticized Karim Khan's “shameful” approach at the end of May, but the White House last week criticized the Republican initiative, saying imposing sanctions on the ICC was not “the right approach.”
The text, which most Republican elected officials and five Democratic elected officials voted on Tuesday, bars ICC officials involved in the case from entering US territory.
