House Passes Bill to Impose Sanctions on I.C.C. Officials for Israeli Prosecutions - The New York Times

House Passes Bill to Impose Sanctions on I.C.C. Officials for Israeli Prosecutions - The New York Times FM: John Whitbeck Transmitted above is a NEW YORK TIMES report on the latest manifestation by Israel's loyal and obedient servants in Washington of their fierce hostility toward international law and the moral conscience of most of mankind. Contrary to my hope that even knee-jerk Israel-Firsters might find it awkward to sanction the ICC and its personnel after ICC Prosecutor Karim Khan, who had already obtained an arrest warrant for President Putin, announced that he was seeking an arrest warrant for the head of Myanmar's military junta (https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/12/05/a-strategically-timed-icc-arrest-warrant-request), the U.S. Congress is forging ahead to offer the world a "truly dazzling demonstration of hypocrisy on steroids" and "further embarrass and disgrace the United States". One of the rare things upon which decent people everywhere can agree with the U.S Congress is that there can be "no moral equivalence between the Israeli government and Hamas" or, put more precisely, that there can be "no moral equivalence between those enforcing an illegal occupation, as Israel's 57-year-long occupation of the State of Palestine has been definitively declared to be by the International Court of Justice, and those resisting that occupation, as is their right, including by armed action, under international law" (https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/11/25/icc-arrest-warrants-moral-equivalence).