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Senate Democrats block legislation to sanction ICC over Israel arrest warrants

2025-01-29

[IsraelTimes] John Fetterman is lone Democrat to vote to advance bill, which House already approved; GOP lawmakers now likely need to resume compromise talks in order to overcome filibuster

US Senate Democrats
...every time you hear the phrase white people, white supremacy, white anything but paint, you're listening to a Democrat. Ask him/her/it to reimagine something for you; they do that a lot, though not well. They can hear a dog whistle a mile or two away. They invented the spoils system and Tammany Hall, and inspired the addition of the word (Thomas) Nasty to the English language. They want to stop continental drift and repeal the law of unintended side effects...
on Tuesday blocked a Republican effort to advance legislation sanctioning the International Criminal Court over the arrest warrants it issued against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former defense minister Yoav Gallant over Israel’s military campaign in Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
against Hamas
Hamas

..a regional Iranian catspaw,...
A vote to invoke cloture fell six politicians short of the 60 needed in order to bring the legislation to a floor vote.

The 54-45 vote result allows Democrats to continue filibustering the legislation and will likely require Republicans to resume negotiations with the Democrats aimed at reaching a compromise on the matter — one that at the very least will likely necessitate tweaking the legislation that already passed the Republican-led House.

Senator John Fetterman of Pennsylvania was the only Democrat who votes with Republicans to advance the bill.

While denouncing the warrants, the Biden administration had refrained from backing the effort, and Democrats seem to have decided to double down on that stance by blocking the bill.

"Deeply disappointed by the outcome of the ICC sanctions bill," Fetterman said. "My vote follows Israel — not the ICC that equivocated the democratically elected leader of our special ally to the hard boyz and rapists of Hamas."

Despite the outcome of the vote, it’s unclear whether the Congressional legislation is necessary, as US President Donald Trump
...Perhaps no man has ever had as much fun being president of the US...
signed an executive order on his first day in office restoring sanctions that were imposed during his first term against the ICC, which former president Joe The Big Guy Biden
...46th president of the U.S. Too old and senile to be prosecuted, not too old and senile to set national policy...
revoked with his own executive order.

Along with the arrest warrants for Netanyahu and Gallant, the ICC issued arrest warrants for Hamas leaders Yahya Sinwar, Ismail Haniyeh
...became Prime Minister of Gaza after the legislative elections of 2006 which Hamas won. President Mahmoud Abbas dismissed Haniyeh from office on 14 June 2007 at the height of the Fatah-Hamas festivities, but Haniyeh did not acknowledge the decree and continued as the PM of Gazoo while Abbas maintained a separate PM in the West Bank. Zapped during the 2023-24 war, to eveyone's satisfaction...
and Mohammad Deif over the terror group’s October 7, 2023, attack that started the Gaza war. All three of them have have since been killed, though the warrant for Deif remains standing as Hamas has yet to confirm his death.

Posted by:trailing wife

#2 "Senate Democrats (try to) Block __________"

A headline template to be used the next 4 years with little actual end results.

Posted by: NN2N1 2025-01-29 06:20

#1 I'm waiting for some Latin-American country to lodge protest with ICC over Trump's immigration policies.

Posted by: Grom the Affective 2025-01-29 03:00

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