“ Human rights advocates criticized Biden's suggestion that the ICC's announcement equated Israel with Hamas, while some also accused the U.S. of double standards, given Washington's emphatic support for the ICC's decision to issue an arrest warrant for Russian President Vladimir Putin over alleged war crimes in the war in Ukraine.
"Biden's response was deeply disappointing," Kenneth Roth, the former executive director of Human Rights Watch, told NBC News in a phone interview on Tuesday. "There was nothing 'outrageous'," he said, about Khan's decision to apply for arrest warrants "at all."
Rejecting Biden's suggestion that the ICC chief prosecutor had implied "an equivalence between Israel and Hamas," he said Khan "did no such thing. He simply charged both sides for their separate crimes. And to use Biden's term, it would have been 'outrageous' had he ignored one side's crime."
"These charges are not about Israel's right to defend itself, which no one questions. They're about how Israel has chosen to defend itself and no cause, no matter how just, can be used as an excuse to commit war crimes," Roth said.”
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/biden-us-israel-attack-icc-arrest-warrants-netanyahu-hamas-rcna153211
Dumbass Biden.
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