And making this an issue that frankly goes beyond Israel and the United States and stretching around the world is not going to be helpful to our national security. These sanctions will make it almost impossible for the United States to engage the Court on other issues in our national interest. Whether that's prosecuting the atrocities in Sudan or human rights abuses by the Taliban or in Venezuela or Russia's war crimes against Ukraine. (01:10–01:18)
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Asserts that the sanctions will hinder U.S. engagement with the ICC on other national interest issues.
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