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The ICC is a kangaroo court and Karim Khan is a deranged fanatic,
Cotton wrote in a social media post
Today’s historic arrest warrants cannot bring back the dead and displaced, but they are a major step towards holding war criminals accountable,
the congresswoman added
We are in consultation with our partners, which include Israel, about our next steps.”
Asked about calls for sanctioning court officials, Jean-Pierre told reportersWe urge the Canadian government to stand firm in its support of Israel’s right to defend itself by rejecting and condemning the ICC’s decision,
Moed said in a statement
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We need accountability in our world, and so based on that, Canada will abide by its obligation under the ICC treaty,
Joly saidThe United States fundamentally rejects the Court’s decision to issue arrest warrants for senior Israeli officials. We remain deeply concerned by the Prosecutor’s rush to seek arrest warrants and the troubling process errors that led to this decision,
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We stand up for international law, and we will abide by all the all the regulations and rulings of the international courts,
Trudeau saidWe need to see a ceasefire that protects civilians. We need to get back on track towards a two-state solution with a peaceful Israel living alongside a peaceful Palestinian state,
Trudeau said
The ICC's decision represents hope and confidence in international law and its institutions,
the Palestinian statement said, urging ICC member states to sever "contact and meetings" with Netanyahu and Gallant - who was sacked by the Israeli prime minister earlier this month
Gaza won’t return to what it was before.” ... Hamas won’t be there. We will eliminate everything.”
In the days after 7 October 2023, Gallant promised ... If that left room for subtlety, he declared
None of that context seems to matter to the kangaroo court of the ICC, which cannot let facts get in the way of its ideological crusade against the Jewish State. The ICC should be sanctioned not for enforcing the law but for distorting it beyond recognition,
the congressman concluded
The ICC ignores the cause and context of the war. Israel did not initiate the war. The war was imposed upon Israel by the unbridged barbarism of Hamas on October 7th. Not only did Hamas wage war on Israel, causing the deadliest day for Jews since the Holocaust, it carefully constructed a battlefield designed to maximize the loss of civilian life,
he continued
We support the ICC, while always remembering that the court must play a legal role and not a political role. We will evaluate together with our allies what to do and how to interpret this decision,
Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani said
The barbaric Israeli authorities, who target our innocent Palestinian brothers and sisters... must be brought to justice as soon as possible for their war crimes and crimes against humanity."
TurkishSweden and the EU support the important work of the court and safeguard its independence and integrity,
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Prime Minister Netanyahu is now officially a wanted man,
said Amnesty's Secretary General Agnes CallamardA lot of the point is to do what's right even if you know that, in the short term, it's probably not going to make a big difference."
CombsWhen states don't like what the ICC does, they don't often cooperate,
said Nancy Combs, a professor at William & Mary Law School in the US state of VirginiaThe Argentine Republic expresses its profound disagreement with the recent decision of the International Criminal Court (ICC) to issue arrest warrants against the Prime Minister of Israel and the former Minister of Defence,
read a statement published on social mediaWe call on the international community to condemn the actions of Hamas and Hezbollah, to defend Israel's sovereignty and to act justly and impartially in the search for a lasting peace in the region,
the statement concluded