Christian leaders, politicians react to ICC's arrest warrant for Israel PM Netanyahu

By Ryan Foley, Christian Post Reporter Thursday, November 21, 2024

Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania and Democratic U.S. Senate candidate John Fetterman speaks to supporters during a campaign rally at Temple University on October 29, 2022 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Fetterman continued to campaign for the upcoming midterm election against Republican Mehmet Oz for the U.S. Senate seat that will be vacant by incumbent Sen. Pat Toomey (R-PA). | Getty Images/Alex Wong

Congressional Democrats

Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., offered a blunt response to the warrants in an X post Thursday. He maintained that the ICC had "no standing, relevance, or path" to bring the charges before declaring "F— that," accompanied by an image of the Israeli flag.

Rep. Ritchie Torres, D-N.Y., who has emerged as an outspoken supporter of Israel, issued a lengthy rebuttal of the ICC warrants on X Thursday.

"The ICC's decision to issue arrest warrants against the leadership of Israel represents the weaponization of international law at its most egregious. The ICC has set a precedent for criminalizing self-defense: any country daring to defend itself against an enemy that exploits civilians as human shields will face persecution posing as prosecution."

"The ICC ignores the cause and context of the war. Israel did not initiate the war. The war was imposed upon Israel by the unabridged barbarism of Hamas on October 7th," he noted. "Not only did Hamas wage war on Israel, causing the deadliest day for Jews since the Holocaust, it carefully constructed a battlefield designed to maximize the loss of civilian life. None of that context seems to matter to the kangaroo court of the ICC, which cannot let facts get in the way of its ideological crusade against the Jewish State."

Torres concluded by asserting that "The ICC should be sanctioned not for enforcing the law but for distorting it beyond recognition."