Alice Speri
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Ukraine's collaboration legislation leaves little room for the complexities of war and people’s need to survive it.
Earlier this summer, I met with one of thousands of Ukrainians accused of collaborating with the enemy.
This is her story.
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After eight years, I was laid off from
@theintercept
among many brilliant colleagues. I had just cut short my maternity leave to cover the war in Gaza.
Journalism will break your heart but there are so many stories to tell, now more than ever. I'll keep at it, somewhere.
🖤
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The fight over the right to boycott is headed to the Supreme Court.
I wrote about this a few months ago, and it is a huge deal with implications we cannot even begin to see yet.
Breaking news: The Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled today that boycotts are not protected by the First Amendment.
@ACLU
has confirmed it'll take the case to the Supreme Court, with huge implications for free speech in America.🧵
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New from me: Biden moves ahead on Trump plan to build Israel embassy on stolen Palestinian land
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After Rachel Corrie was crushed to death by an Israeli bulldozer in 2003, the U.S. government did nothing to ensure that such a killing would not happen again.
So it did.
My latest, with photos from the brilliant
@kholoodeid
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New from me: Israeli forces deliberately killed Palestinian American journalist, report shows
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My latest, and last,
@theintercept
story.
How the ADL’s Anti-Palestinian Advocacy Helped Shape U.S. Terror Laws
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Twenty years after the world first saw photos of detainees tortured while in US custody at Abu Ghraib, one of the thousands of men who were abused there is at long last set to testify in a US federal court.
My latest, and first for
@GuardianUS
.
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On this day, in 2003, an Israeli soldier in Rafah drove a bulldozer over American peace activist Rachel Corrie, crushing her to death. Her family fought for years to get the US govt to do something about it.
Thinking of them & everyone in Rafah today.
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Like 1.3 million Palestinians who have fled there,
@aselmousa
is living through hell in Rafah right now.
Still, she’s documenting what is happening to her fellow Gazans. So humbled to work with her on this heartbreaking dispatch from Rafah.
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Earlier this year, I traveled to both sides of the Green Line to look at how Israel's policies — upheld by the judiciary – serve its regime of racial domination over Palestinians.
The recent mass protests are about preserving that system.
My latest.
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“I Have Lost Everything”: In Federal Court, Palestinians Accuse Biden of Complicity in Genocide
My story on today's historic hearing
@theCCR
@DCIPalestine
@alhaq_org
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"We cannot confirm it officially, but you can assume it happened and believe the report," the IDF told me.
"We don’t have the time to check every report."
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The Corries never talked about their years-long dealings with US officials as they fought for justice for Rachel.
But after hearing the same officials call for a "credible" Israeli investigation of Shireen Abu Akleh's killing, they decided it was time.
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At Al Jazeera's West Bank headquarters in downtown Ramallah, Shireen Abu Akleh's colleagues have turned her office into a tribute to her life.
A year after she was killed, her absence there is as dominating as her presence once was.
My latest.
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New from me: 100 days after the killing of Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, the Biden administration has done nothing to seek accountability.
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"I want to sit down with the person who killed my son. I want to hear his life story. I want to know: What are you going to do to change?"
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20 years ago an Israeli soldier drove a bulldozer over American peace activist Rachel Corrie, crushing her to death.
Last year, I spoke to Rachel's family about their years-long battle to get the U.S. government to do something about her killing.
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The US has laws banning the funding of military assistance to foreign military units with a record of human rights abuses.
But they have never applied them to Israel.
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New from me: Human rights lawyers warned Biden that his unconditional support for the war on Gaza may implicate the U.S. in Israel’s crimes.
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Romal Ahmadi and his wife Arezo lost their three children in a U.S. drone strike in Kabul in 2021 that the Pentagon acknowledged was a "horrible mistake."
Now they are in California, with a newborn, struggling to make rent:
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Here are the US plans for a new, permanent embassy in Jerusalem -- on stolen land.
The planned compound is to be built on land illegally expropriated from Palestinians, whose descendants, including several US citizens, still have a claim to it.
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In 2019, I wrote about two attorneys who made it their mission to stop ICE from deporting people —sometimes getting them off planes at the last minute.
Now that story is a film, Guerrilla Habeas, on
@MSNBC
, in partnership with
@Trevornoah
.
Coming soon!
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"How difficult is it to deceive the public? I would say, as a former insider, one becomes aware: It’s not difficult to deceive them."
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"For Israelis, the founding myth is that the Palestinians just ran away by themselves... Israel is lying to itself."
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The man who killed Portland anti-fascist Sean Kealiher in 2019 was sentenced to 17 years.
Two years ago I wrote a long story about Sean and why police was doing nothing to solve his murder.
Man gets 17 years for killing well-known Portland antifascist Sean Kealiher
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New from me: As Israelis protest mounting authoritarianism, apartheid regime over Palestinians goes unchallenged
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Last year I visited a Palestinian security forces base in the West Bank and spoke to young recruits about the tension between the Palestinian people's political aspirations and the forces’ role in undermining them.
My latest for
@theintercept
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The ICC just issued an arrest warrant for Putin over war crimes in Ukraine -- but the Biden administration is still split on supporting the court, because of fears it might one day come for Americans accused of war crimes elsewhere.
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“It’s wild how little of what’s happening is being chronicled. And the main reason, though not the only one, is that the Ukrainian government has made it virtually impossible for journalists to do real front line reportage.”
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“Even though there are wounded and deceased people right outside the hospital, we are paralyzed, unable to assist them, as the occupation’s snipers and Israeli aircraft target anyone venturing outside the hospital premises.”
by
@aselmousa
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“The legal conclusions are there: The U.S. is clearly on notice that its actions are in violation of both international and domestic law.”
@theCCR
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Last year, I wrote about the film "Boycott," about how a number of US states have been passing anti-BDS legislation, with massive implications for Americans' free speech rights.
Today, some AZ legislators are terrified their colleagues might watch it.
BREAKING: A handful of Arizona State Legislators are terrified that their colleagues may watch a film this afternoon about the direct impact anti-boycott laws have had on Americans right to free speech. Why is that? 🧵
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For those who think I'm exaggerating when I write about the return of fascism in Italy.
This is my hometown. And these are Italian neofascists attacking Moroccan fans celebrating their country's World Cup win.
Assalto fascista ai caroselli dei tifosi del Marocco a Verona. Uno dei video che registrano il momento dell’aggressione ai tifosi del Marocco.
#matrice
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New from me: The U.S. Still Owes Money to Family of 10 Afghans It Killed in “Horrible Mistake”
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New from me, about how things are going back home.
"We're coming for you." Journalists are targeted as Italy's neofascists rise to power.
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I asked the ICC prosecutor's office for comment on the ongoing crimes in Palestine/Israel.
@KarimKhanQC
@IntlCrimCourt
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I spoke with more than a dozen people who have worked with ICC prosecutor Karim Khan.
They described him as a divisive, sometimes brutal operative, as savvy in the political arena as he is in the courtroom.
He's now facing his greatest test: Putin.
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In a statement to
@theintercept
Yevgeny Prigozhin wrote: "50 young guys, whom I personally organized, kicked the entire American government in the ass. And we will continue to do so as many times as needed."
Story here:
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I spoke with a former member of Netzah Yehuda -- an Israeli military unit with a long history of human rights abuses, including those leading to the death of Palestinian-American 78-year-old Omar Assad.
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"We don’t want anything more than for people to know the facts. We don’t have a complicated narrative."
With
@eliseswain
, I wrote about the images you will or won't see out of Gaza.
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New from me: As the Taliban Hunts Prosecutors, Afghan and U.S. Lawyers Team Up to Bring Their Colleagues to Safety
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Last year, I wrote a long story
@theintercept
about the murder of a Portland anti-fascist, and why police was doing nothing to solve it.
We sued the city for records of the investigation. This week, three years after the murder, police made an arrest.
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I asked the US, UK, France, and Germany whether they support Ukrainian officials' call for a special tribunal to prosecute the crime of aggression.
My latest, on why nobody's prosecuting the crime that enabled all others.
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As
@LinaAbuAkleh
predicted
@theintercept
, Israel won't investigate Shireen Abu Akleh's killers. Will the US now do so?
“We know how that’s going to turn out. We’re not expecting anything from the Israelis. What we’re expecting is the US to do its job.”
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In 2021, I wrote about anti-BDS laws upending Americans' right to engage in boycott.
Last week, SCOTUS left in place a ruling that boycott is not protected under the 1st Amendment.
Today, you can learn more
@TheBoycottFilm
, now streaming worldwide.
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I was supposed to fly home yesterday afternoon. Flight first delayed then cancelled.
@JetBlue
rebooked me for tonight, more than a day after original time. Now the online check-in is down, the kiosks at the airport don't work, there are no agents in sight and no flight is listed.
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At Camp As Sayliyah in Qatar, some evacuees have attempted suicide and staged hunger strikes.
Kosovo’s Camp Liya has earned the nickname "little Guantánamo."
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Please check out our "Losing Afghanistan" series, produced by Afghan journalists who fled their country last year.
More podcast episodes and dispatches are coming.
I am so proud of
@theintercept
for supporting this work and for staying on the story.
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New from me: Progressive group roiled by accusations diversity leader misrepresented her ethnic background
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A 1993 trip to the US inspired Prigozhin to launch his fast food empire & he once wrote a fantasy book about the residents of the fairy land Indraguzia, ruled by King Indraguz.
This and more in his hacked resume, which we just published
@theintercept
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Unsolicited opinion from an Italian/American: Today is Indigenous Peoples' Day. Italian Heritage Day should be the day they executed Sacco and Vanzetti.
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I recently met with a former member of the IDF's Netzah Yehuda unit, an ultra-Orthodox battalion with a long record of human rights abuses.
Thread here on what he (and others) told me. ⬇️
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New from me: Inside the aggressive legal war to shield the founder of Russia’s Wagner Group
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“Tantura” is a harrowing inquiry into individual memory and trauma as they clash with the untouchable narrative of a nation that has convinced itself of its purity.
I reviewed Alon Schwarz'snew film. You should watch it.
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Updated with a comment from the ICC prosecutor's office.
The ICC’s mandate in Palestine “is ongoing and applies to crimes committed in the current context.” Those with information relevant to the investigation should provide it here:
@IntlCrimCourt
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New from me:
“Beheaded Babies” Report Spread Wide and Fast — but Israel Military Won’t Confirm It
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New from me, on
@HRW
's latest report from Ukraine.
“We felt like hostages”: Ukrainians describe forcible transfers and filtration by Russian forces
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.
@ReedBrody
: "It is somewhat unseemly for people who invaded Iraq to talk about a tribunal."
But also,
"None of the African victims I’ve worked with have said, ‘No, we don’t want justice until you can bring Bush to trial.'"
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Prigozhin’s brief rebellion played out online as much as on the ground -- an echo of information wars he waged for years from the United States to Sudan.
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New from me:
This week marks one year since an Israeli soldier killed Palestinian American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh.
Her colleagues are still waiting for justice.
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"It was an ominous expression of modern journalism’s obsession with bothsidesism — its constant impulse to give oppressors as much care and elevation as those they oppress."
by
@KarenAttiah
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New, with
@samfbiddle
: Anti-Palestinian hate on Israeli social media is growing, says a Facebook partner
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New from me: Israeli raids in the West Bank push Palestinians to the brink again
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What is happening in the West Bank?
I spoke with
@dianabuttu
@YousefMunayyer
and
@Yara_M_Asi
about the intensifying Israeli raids, closures, and settler attacks of the last months.
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New from me: Leaked document reveals why Interpol overturned U.S. “red notice” against Putin associate Yevgeny Prigozhin
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Israel's Defense Minister Yoav Gallant used genocidal language and ordered mass war crimes in the occupied Gaza Strip on Monday in response to Hamas’s weekend assault and massacre of Israeli civilians.
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New from me: Before They Vowed to Annihilate Hamas, Israeli Officials Considered It an Asset
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So many people have put much hope in the ICC's Palestine investigation.
But even though Khan has indicated that he hopes to “visit Palestine,” people at the court told me recently that the investigation is minimally staffed and has largely stalled.
Here is ICC Prosecutor
@KarimKhanQC
refusing to answer my questions about investigating the killing of Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh as I chase him down a UN hall.
#JusticeForShireen
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Still, the US sanctioning one IDF unit would have an important symbolic impact.
As
@mattduss
put it, "What we need is the political will to apply the law, and thus far this administration has lacked that will.”
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@KarimKhanQC
@IntlCrimCourt
To be clear, I asked the OTP to comment on Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant's order of "no electricity, no food, no fuel" in Gaza and whether that constitutes an "admission of intent" to commit war crimes, and potential crimes against humanity
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New from me: I spoke to
@avalaina
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I think there is some metaphor for the state of this country in here.
I was supposed to fly home yesterday afternoon. Flight first delayed then cancelled.
@JetBlue
rebooked me for tonight, more than a day after original time. Now the online check-in is down, the kiosks at the airport don't work, there are no agents in sight and no flight is listed.
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New from me: Israel Responds to Hamas Crimes by Ordering Mass War Crimes in Gaza
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"She was a symbol of hope as much as defiance, an artist and thinker who always stood on the horizon, urging others to catch up."
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New from me: The killing of a Portland antifascist activist went unsolved. Then journalists sued the city.
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@AymanM
@theintercept
Thank you, Ayman. I think I told you before but your and
@SherineT
's Gaza coverage in 2008 is what got me into journalism in the first place.
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"Lawsuits might heighten the public’s scrutiny of law enforcement misconduct, but unless police departments or officials are made to shoulder the financial burden, they’re unlikely to change their tactics."
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@akela_lacy
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@KSaloomey
@DaliaHatuqa
@KarimKhanQC
So many people have put much hope in the ICC's Palestine investigation.
But even though Khan has indicated that he hopes to “visit Palestine,” people at the court told me recently that the investigation is minimally staffed and has largely stalled.
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Travis is not just a phenomenal, principled journalist but also a generous and caring colleague who has played a crucial role in making The Intercept a more supportive and equitable newsroom.
Working with him has been a gift. You'd be lucky to have him on your team.
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State Department officials have repeatedly said that they do not believe the ICC should exert jurisdiction over citizens of nonmember countries, but they have not explained why an exception should be made for Russian citizens.
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The fight over the right to boycott is headed to the Supreme Court.
Last year, I took a look at what’s at stake:
BREAKING: We filed a petition urging the Supreme Court to review a lower court's decision stating the First Amendment doesn't fully protect the right to boycott.
This decision takes away free speech freedoms Americans have exercised since the Boston Tea Party. We won't allow it.
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maybe he did save Twitter
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@KarimKhanQC
@IntlCrimCourt
And I asked to comment on criticism that the OTP's stalled progress on the Palestine situation has led to impunity for war crimes that have directly resulted in the ongoing crimes being committed by both Israel and Hamas
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A must read by
@AliaMalek
on the Mediterranean, dreams, and one of the greatest Italians of our time
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This! 👇
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Twitter has suspended the accounts of half a dozen journalists, including my
@theintercept
colleague
@micahflee
.
This is from the guy who said he hopes "that even my worst critics remain on Twitter, because that is what free speech means."
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The Leahy Laws, named after recently retired
@SenatorLeahy
prohibit US security assistance to foreign military units with a record of abuse.
But these laws have never been applied against Israel.
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In his statement, Prigozhin also called Wagner mercenaries "Russians who are doing good deeds around the world, including fighting thugs in Central Africa, helping the Malian government and other unprotected people and nations where the U.S. is making a global mess."
In a statement to
@theintercept
Yevgeny Prigozhin wrote: "50 young guys, whom I personally organized, kicked the entire American government in the ass. And we will continue to do so as many times as needed."
Story here:
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The ICC v. Al Hassan case marks the first use of an immersive virtual environment in an international criminal trial.
“Many of us are watching to see how visual and other forms of digital evidence become useful or are challenged, what the judges think"
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The almost routine reality of the violence Palestinians face has made it hard for observers to grasp at the big picture — and take note of a perceptible shift that is further fueling anxiety and resentment.
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“This is not a fringe issue. There are many of us who feel that this administration has lost its way on this.”
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“The bottom line is that the U.S. wants an ironclad guarantee that no American official will ever be prosecuted by the ICC or any other institution of international justice.”
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New from me: Biden Embraces Antisemitism Definition That Has Upended Free Speech in Europe
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