Dems block sanctions on the anti-US, anti-Israel ICC just to spite Donald Trump

We get that Democrats want to show they’re mad at President Trump, but it’s pretty telling that they chose to hurt Israel — and Americans — to do it.That is, by blocking the bill to slap sanctions on officials at the rabidly anti-American, anti-Israel International Criminal Court.Mind you, many Dems backed the bill: 45 voted for it in the House, and some in the Senate were set to support it, too.

 But they’re clearly peeved about Trump’s executive orders, particularly one freezing federal aid, and some openly declared their “nay” was their way of showing it.“Donald Trump is making a run to take over all of government,” huffed Sen. Liz Warren (D-Mass.).“So at this moment, we’re a ‘no’ on this bill and everything else that comes up.”True, Warren hates Israel, even suggesting it has waged “genocide” against Gazans.

So surely she’d oppose sanctions on a body that wants to arrest Israel’s leader.Yet at least three other Democrats — including Sens.Elissa Slotkin (D-Mich.) and Ruben Gallego (D-Ariz.), who both voted for the bill in the House before winning Senate seats in November — also suddenly switched sides.And Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, who says he opposes “the ICC bias against Israel” and wants to see the court “drastically reformed and reshaped,” nonetheless rallied Dems to thwart the bill.Schumer’s lame excuse: It was “poorly drafted” and would have “many unintended consequences.”As if that’s ever stopped Democrats before.Sen.

John Fetterman (Pa.) wound up as as the only Dem to back the bill, which got just 54 votes in favor, six short of the 60 needed to advance.Get the most important developments in the region, globally and locally.

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