WTH is the International Criminal Court Prosecuting Netanyahu and Threatening Congress? Senator Tom Cotton Explains
What the Hell Is Going On
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🗓️ 23 May 2024
⏱️ 49 minutes
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This week, International Criminal Court prosecutor Karim A.A. Khan, K.C., announced on CNN that he will seek arrest warrants for Israel’s democratically elected Prime Minister and Defense Minister, as well as three members of Hamas leadership because of “crimes against humanity” related to October 7 and the subsequent Israel-Hamas war. Israel is not a party to the Rome Statute that underpins the ICC, which therefore has no legal jurisdiction in Israel. The ICC has admitted a “State of Palestine,” which theoretically grants jurisdiction over actions in “Palestine” and over Hamas figures. How should Washington respond to the ICC’s extrajudicial investigation? And how will the ICC’s announcement affect its global standing?
Tom Cotton is a United States Senator from Arkansas. Senator Cotton’s committees include the Judiciary Committee, where he serves as the Ranking Member for the Subcommittee on Criminal Justice and Counterterrorism, the Intelligence Committee, and the Armed Services Committee, where he serves as the Ranking Member of the Air Land Power Subcommittee. Before joining the Senate, Senator Cotton was a member of the House of Representatives and served on active duty in the United States Army as an Infantry Officer.
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| 0:00.0 | This podcast is brought to you by the American Enterprise Institute. |
| 0:03.0 | If you like what you hear, please subscribe, rate, review, and share. Thanks for listening. Here's our show. What the hell's going on? What the hell is going on? What the hell is going on? I don't know what the hell is talking about. You don't have to know what the hell is on it. What hell's the matter with these guys? We don't know what's going on. What hell's going on? |
| 0:01.1 | Who in God's name knows what it's all about. |
| 0:29.0 | Hi, I'm Daniel Pletka. |
| 0:30.8 | I'm Mark Tiesin. |
| 0:32.0 | Welcome to our podcast. |
| 0:33.4 | What the hell is going on? |
| 0:35.3 | Mark, what has the wider international organization community done now? |
| 0:41.1 | What they have done is the International Criminal Court is seeking an indictment of Israeli Prime Minister |
| 0:47.8 | Benjamin Netanyahu, the defense minister Galant, and other Israeli officials charging them with war crimes, crimes against humanity, and every |
| 0:57.8 | other statute under the ICC's son. And not only that, that's bad enough. And that's, and we're |
| 1:04.1 | going to get into that in a second. But not only are they threatening to indict Prime Minister |
| 1:08.7 | Netanyahu, the ICC prosecutor is threatening to indict our |
| 1:11.9 | guest today, Senator Tom Cotton. So Tom Cotton and Mitch McConnell and a group of Republican senators |
| 1:18.4 | sent a letter to this prosecutor, Karim Khan, when word was coming that he was going to indict |
| 1:24.8 | Netanyahu, warning him that he has no legal basis to do so, |
| 1:28.9 | that neither Israel of the United States are members of the ICC are not under his jurisdiction. |
| 1:33.2 | And then if he did so, went ahead, we would consider that a threat not totally to only to Israel's |
| 1:38.2 | sovereignty, but our own, and would impose sanctions on him and his organization and the family |
| 1:42.8 | members of the staff of the ICC. |
| 1:45.0 | Khan responded by telling him that the threat to his letter was a violation of Article 70 |
| 1:53.0 | of the Rome's statute, which was a threat even when not act upon, which prohibits retaliating |
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