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My name's Daniel Finn on the Features editor here at Jacobin, and I'll be presenting the show.

Last week, the International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants for the Israeli Prime Minister Benimin Netanyahu and his former defence minister, Yoav Gallant.

It was a rare moment of hope for Palestinians, but the US government responded with outrage.

At the State Department press briefing, reporters asked Matthew Miller why the Biden administration

had previously welcomed the ICC arrest warrant for Russian leader Vladimir Putin,

but now took a very different view of the court's legitimacy.

Every other country has to make their own decisions under their law and their systems,

how they're going to react to it.

So when the secretary was, like last year it was where he was talking about,

the warrant for Vladimir Putin said,

this was in Senate, said any country that's parties to the court has obligations

that should fulfill those obligations.

So should countries' obligations to international treaties be sort of selective in this way?

No, every country has to make that decision for themselves.

But I don't think there is any equivalence between the case that the ICC has brought against

Russia and the case that it has brought against Israel.

When you look at the difference between the two countries, Russia is not a democracy, does

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