Netanyahu’s request from Biden: During a telephone conversation last week between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and US President Joe Biden, Netanyahu asked: “Do not repeal the sanctions imposed by the Trump administration on the prosecutor at the International Criminal Court in The Hague,” Walla NEWS reported tonight (Wednesday). This is against the background of the approval given by the tribunal to open an investigation against Israel in Judea and Samaria and Gaza.
According to the report, senior officials explained that the fear was that the removal of American sanctions on The Hague could harm Israeli efforts to prevent the tribunal from opening an investigation in Judea and Samaria, Gaza and East Jerusalem. According to them, the cancellation of the sanctions imposed by Trump last June may cause prosecutor Pato Basuda to interpret the move as a sign that the United States does not oppose the opening of such an investigation against Israel.
According to senior officials, the issue of sanctions against the tribunal also came up in a telephone conversation between Foreign Minister Gabi Ashkenazi and his American counterpart, Anthony Blinken, as well as in other talks between senior Israeli and US Foreign Ministry officials in recent days in which Israelis tried to use sanctions. In its foundation, which will prevent it from launching an investigation against Israel or the United States around the war in Afghanistan.
Earlier today, the prime minister referred to his conversation with Biden in his speech at a memorial service for IDF martyrs whose burial place is unknown, and hinted: “In my conversation with Biden we talked about our moral commitment to protect our soldiers from those who try to blame their morality through false claims.”
The Prime Minister’s Office and the White House refused to comment on the allegations in the article, but did not deny the details.
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