‘The ICJ Can Go to Hell’: Lindsey Graham Rips ‘Ridiculous’ Ruling Calling for Halt to Israel’s Operation in Rafah

Isaac SchorrMay 24th, 2024, 12:13 pm
 

Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) tore into an International Court of Justice ruling calling for a halt to Israel’s operation in Rafah on Friday, describing it as the “ridiculous” result of the body’s “anti-Israel bias.”

“As far as I’m concerned, the ICJ can go to hell,” wrote Graham in a post on X. “It is long past time to stand up to these so-called international justice organizations associated with the UN. Their anti-Israel bias is overwhelming.”

“The ICJ’s ruling that Israel should stop operations that are necessary to destroy four battalions of Hamas killers and terrorists – who use Palestinians as human shields – is ridiculous,” he continued. “This will and should be ignored by Israel.”

Earlier on Friday, the ICJ called on Israel to “immediately” in a decision arguing that “the humanitarian situation is now to be characterized as disastrous.”

“Israel must immediately halt its military offensive and any other action in Rafah which may inflict on the Palestinian group in Gaza conditions of life that could bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part,” declared ICJ president Nawaf Salam while reading the decision aloud.

Notably, Salam was a vocal critic of Israel in his old capacity as the Lebanese ambassador to the United Nations.

Former Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett reacted to the court’s ruling in a video on X, accusing the ICJ of giving “a green light to every terror organization on Earth to go ahead and murder, burn, rape people and then hide behind innocent civilians,” while current opposition leader Yair Lapid slammed the ICJ for not pairing its call for such a halt with a demand for the release of the Israeli hostages held by Hamas.

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