Washington DC -Senate Democratic Party members have prevented the passage of the international criminal court (ICC) over the issuance of the arrest warrant of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Minister of Defense, Yoab Gallant. Gaza.
Tuesday voting gained 54 votes, 45 votes opposed, and did not take 60 votes required to go to the final vote.
The UN experts, European authorities, and the current and ICC management institutions have all opposed the bill and have warned that they will set a dangerous precedent when the importance of international legal order increases. Masu.
However, many of the Democratic members who voted against the measures have accused the court in which a lawsuit against Israel was filed by issuing a warrant against Netanyahu and Galant. The court simultaneously issued a warrant by Commander Hamas Mohamed Deif in response to his role in the attack against southern Israel on October 7, 2023.
ICC denies bias in its actions.
Before the voting, Chuck Schumer, a Senate Democratic leader dominated by the Republican Party, said the sanctions billed, “I want to be the Lord and become a law.”
“But as I want to see that the institution has been dramatically reformed and re -formed as opposed to ICC bias against Israel, the draft in front of us has insufficient drafts. There is a deeply problem, “he said. Allies and companies dealing with court.
He called a Republican member to return to the negotiating table to adjust the legislative language.
“Our close allies should be related to us,” said the Republican member, John Tune, a Republican member, supported by the Senator, supporting the bill.
“ICC is targeting Israelites today, but it can be easily set for Americans,” he said.
Senator John Fetterman was the only Democratic Party member who voted for the law. He was promptly praised by the American Slael Public Relations Committee (AIPAC), a very influential parent Israel lobby.
In the post of Social Media Platform X, the group thanked Fetterman for the “principle of Israeli leader and Israeli to the ICC -based attack.”
In the past, President Donald Trump has strictly bound for ICC, and in 2020, the court imposed sanctions over the concerns that the court was investigating US military behavior overseas.
Former President Joe Biden’s administration later canceled the order, but Trump overturned Biden’s decision last week.
His movement was symbolic until now, as the reversal did not automatically re -imposed sanctions.
“Demandable culture”
Neither the United States nor Israel is the Roman party that established ICC.
However, the court claims that Israeli officials may be responsible for their actions due to suspicion of war crimes in Gaza.
Palestine has been an ICC member since 2015.
The court used a similar debate to issue an arrest warrant to Russian officials on suspicion of abuse in Ukraine. Russia is not the ICC party, but Ukraine is.
In issuing a warrant against Netanyahu and Gallant, ICC prosecutors have argued that Israel’s restrictions on gaza, including water and medicine, are equivalent to hunger as a war method.
The two officials of Israel were accused of crimes against humanitarian, including murder and persecution, and war crimes that instructed the attack on civilians.
In the past, the war in Israel in Gaza killed 47,354 Palestinians and drove almost all the population of the flying land. There was a sparse ceasefire from January 19th.
Before both men were killed by Israel’s strike, ICC was looking for a warrant from Hamas’s political leader Ismile Hannier and Gaza’s Yahiya Sinwir.
Earlier this month, the United Nations experts called on the U.S. in the United States to refuse the bill after being passed by the Republican House of Republican.
“It is shocking to see a country that thinks it is a champion of law dominating the law that hinders the actions of independent court, which was established by the international community,” said an expert.
They added threats to ICC that “promoting the culture of exemption.”
In an article published by the Just Security Website on Monday, the current and former presidents of the International Criminal Court’s Contracts, and the organizations that manage the court may “strictly disturb” sanctions around the world. He warned that there was. 。
“The tasks remain, but they are committed to the ICC justice vision and their duties to guarantee that no one will exceed the law, regardless of power,” he wrote.
“Efforts to weaken ICC are an attack on the principle of protecting the weak from powerful people.”