Netanyahu hails US sanctions on ICC and calls Nobel laureate jurist 'bigot'
Netanyahu hails US sanctions on ICC and calls Nobel laureate jurist 'bigot' Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Friday praised the US for imposing sanctions on the International Criminal Court (ICC), which has issued a warrant for his arrest over war crimes in Gaza. "The ICC is not a court. It is a political body that poses a mortal threat to law-abiding democracies worldwide and to the…
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu lauded the United States for imposing sanctions on the International Criminal Court (ICC) on Friday. The ICC issued a warrant for Netanyahu's arrest, accusing him of war crimes committed in Gaza. Netanyahu's office argued that the ICC is a political entity, not a court, and a significant danger to democracies and national sovereignty worldwide.
The sanctions were imposed by the Trump administration the same day the Nobel laureate jurist Navi Pillay was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. Netanyahu's office labeled Pillay a "bigot against Jews" for her assertion that Israel was committing genocide in Gaza. The Nobel Committee, according to Netanyahu's office, has lost its moral integrity by awarding the highest honor to a person they claim has fabricated and spread falsehoods about the Jewish state.
Navi Pillay, who headed the UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, found that Israel was committing genocide in Gaza last year.
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