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We will always stand with Israel against threats to its security
the US leader added
It is reasonable to expect that once Trump comes in, he will go after the ICC and the ICJ in ways that profoundly damages the multilateral system,
Trita Parsi, the executive director of the Washington-based Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, noted on X ... referring also to the International Court of Justice
You can expect a strong response to the antisemitic bias of the ICC & UN come January”
Michael Waltz, Trump’s nominee for national security advisor, echoed Netanyahu and Gallant in his response to the court’s moveIf you aid and abet the ICC after their action against the State of Israel, you can expect consequences from the United States,
he saidAmana is a key part of the Israeli extremist settlement movement and maintains ties to various persons previously sanctioned by the US government and its partners for perpetrating violence in the West Bank,
the US Treasury said
The cancellation of administrative detention orders for settlers alone is a cynical... move that whitewashes and normalizes escalating Jewish terrorism under the cover of war,
the group said in a statement, referring to a spike in settler attacks throughout the Israel-Hamas conflict over the past 13 monthsIt is embarrassing to see Netanyahu and Gallant in the same place as Muammar el-Qaddafi, Slobodan Milosevic, Ratko Mladic and several African dictators,
wrote Sima Kadmon, a political columnist and longtime Netanyahu critic, in the Friday editions of the popular Yediot Ahronot newspaper
It turns him into the victim he likes to be, the person fighting for Israel’s rights,
Mr. Barak said,
I appeal to all States Parties to live up to their commitment... by respecting and complying with these judicial orders,
Khan said in a statement
The court’s decision may ease some of my pain, but my sister’s soul – and those of tens of thousands of Palestinian victims – will not find peace until Netanyahu and his army leaders are behind bars,
Munira al-Shami, whose sister Wafa was killed in an Israeli attack a month ago, told the BBC
We are not getting into hypotheticals.”
When asked by journalists if Netanyahu would be arrested if he came to the UK, the government spokesman repliedIt’s an antisemitic step that has one goal – to deter me, to deter us from having our natural right to defend ourselves against enemies who try to destroy us,
he saidWhat is the message to Hamas? What is the message in accordance with the hostages deal?"
Akunis asked
I'm very happy to hear that officials in the next administration in the United States, and the current members of the Congress and the Senate actually declared that they will change the laws against the ICC,
Akunis saidThis is a first step showing international commitment to justice,
Naim said in a statement shared with NewsweekWhether they're the families in the kibbutzim that are mourning the people killed from the seventh of October, or that are so horrendously being kept today, or they don't know, the fear, the terror of the unknown of where they are, or it's Palestinians in the West Bank or in Gaza, ... they have the right, not as a charity, not as a favor to them, but they have a right to be seen by the law."
Khan said at the timeAnd then the law has an obligation to analyze information in this environment, separate fiction from fact, and then present it to judges,
he addedThe decision actually send a message today, to the Western world, to the United States, and to other democratic countries, ... that today it's Israel, today it's Prime Minister Netanyahu and former defense minister Gallant, tomorrow maybe it's you."
he said
The International Criminal Court’s long overdue decision to issue arrest warrants for Netanyahu and Gallant for war crimes and crimes against humanity signals that the days of the Israeli apartheid government operating with impunity are ending,
Tlaib said in a statement
The ICC is a kangaroo court and Karim Khan is a deranged fanatic,
Cotton wrote in a social media post