[Salon] US National Security Advisor Mike Waltz condemns ICC's Netanyahu warrant - The Jerusalem Post

I can hear this New Right/NatCon/Libertarian/Traditional Conservative email list  let out a collective "Huzzah, Thank God we, and Israel's fascists, have Trump and his team ready to go to attack the ICC again, just like back in 2018." This is a major reason the aforesaid "Right," was all hands on deck to get Trump elected again. So there can be a collective pride in attacking the ICC, with so many here having promoted Trumpism, going back to 2015. Almost as if acting as if we're a political front group for Israeli fascists. As NatCons are overtly, and others purveying their support covertly through "propaganda by omission," as libertarians particularly excell at. 

Biden/Harris could be counted on to provide all the munitions Israel demanded for its expansionistic wars, but with the Democrat's "Left," could not fully be trusted to have the Israeli fascist's "six," as Republicans like to say, mimicking their military Gods. So as we've seen, with the likes of Tucker Carlson having to choke on words suggesting he might oppose war (in between supporting Hitler) in support of Trump's (and Quincy Institute's/The American Conservative) cognitive campaign of revising history with the "Big Lie" that Trump was a "Foreign Policy Restrainer." Though he is, when that's defined as "Restraining" the enforcement of International Law. 

Here's the "Trump Tradition" which Traditional Conservatives revere so much: 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYt3hsAWZNk (2018)

Trump: International Criminal Court has no jurisdiction, legitimacy or authority

And in Solidarity with Israeli fascism, from Jun. 6, 2024, here's JD Vance, with Tom Cotton, et al.: 
https://www.jns.org/give-icc-prosecutor-taste-of-own-medicine-senators-tell-us-attorney-general/

BLUF: "Four Republican senators are urging Merrick Garland, the U.S. attorney general, to investigate the International Criminal Court’s prosecutor, whom they accused of having “broken American law by materially supporting terrorism through his unjust and unjustified targeting of Israel’s prime minister and defense minister.”

. . . 

"Sens. Mike Braun (R-Ind.), Rick Scott (R-Fla.) and J.D. Vance (R-Ohio) were the other signatories."

 

Just prior to that support for attacking the ICC, favorites here, the Quincy Institute and The American Conservative, had an extra-special event for what could be construed as "Incitement of Genocide, " with Vance the keynoter:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVzoZwoU_RY (May 23, 2024)


Let's be honest, and not hypocritical; we, this email list, "owns" this attack on the ICC, given its disproportionate support for Trump/Vance, and their New Right/National/Traditional  Conservatism ideology. 


https://www.jpost.com/international/article-830161

'Expect strong response,' Trump's new National Security Advisor reacts to ICC arrest warrants

In a post on X, Arkansas Republican Sen. Tom Cotton decried the ICC as a "kangaroo court" and called Karim Khan a deranged fanatic."

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Congressman Mike Waltz speaks on Day 1 of the Republican National Convention (RNC) at the Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, US, July 15, 2024.
(photo credit: REUTERS/MIKE SEGAR)

Florida Congressman and incoming National Security Advisor Mike Waltz slammed the ICC's issuing of arrest warrants for  Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant on Thursday, saying the international court has "no credibility."

"These allegations have been refuted by the US government," Waltz wrote in a post on X. "Israel has lawfully defended its people & borders from genocidal terrorists. You can expect a strong response to the antisemitic bias of the ICC & UN come January."

Other condemnations

In a post on X, Arkansas Republican Sen. Tom Cotton decried the ICC as a "kangaroo court" and called Karim Khan a deranged fanatic."

"Woe to him and anyone who tries to enforce these outlaw warrants," Cotton wrote. "Let me give them all a friendly reminder: the American law on the ICC is known as The Hague Invasion Act for a reason. Think about it."

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ICC PROSECUTOR Karim Khan speaks during an interview in The Hague, earlier this year. (credit: PIROSCHKA VAN DE WOUW/REUTERS)

South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham wrote the "International Corrupt Criminal Court has acted in the most absurd and irresponsible manner possible by issuing arrest warrants" against Netanyahu and Gallant while there's a  serious cloud of allegations hanging out over the prosecutor who sought these warrants."

"Senator Schumer needs to pass the bipartisan legislation that came from the House sanctioning the Court for such an outrage and President Biden needs to sign it," Graham wrote. 

Democrats also chimed in with criticism of the ICC's warrants. 

Using explicit language, Pennsylvania Sen. John Fetterman wrote the ICC has "no standing, relevance, or path."

"F**k that," he wrote. 

North Carolina Democratic Rep. Kathy Manning wrote the ICC's decision is a "pure and transparent abuse of justice" to "isolate and undermine our democratic ally Israel, which has the right to defend itself against Hamas terrorists."


The US must stand with Israel and push back against this outrageous and harmful decision, Manning said.  

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