{"id":2262398,"date":"2024-06-07T15:29:01","date_gmt":"2024-06-07T19:29:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/george-clooney-called-white-house-about-icc-warrants-report\/"},"modified":"2024-06-07T15:29:13","modified_gmt":"2024-06-07T19:29:13","slug":"george-clooney-called-white-house-about-icc-warrants-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/george-clooney-called-white-house-about-icc-warrants-report\/","title":{"rendered":"George Clooney contacted the White House regarding ICC warrants, according to a report"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fgeorge-clooney-called-white-house-about-icc-warrants-report%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2262398&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_79\">\n<p>Actor <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/george-clooney\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>George Clooney<\/a> called the White House following President <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/joe-biden\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Joe Biden\">Joe Biden<\/a>\u2018s reaction to the international warrants issued to Israeli Prime Minister <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/benjamin-netanyahu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Joe Biden\">Benjamin Netanyahu<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Three <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2024\/06\/06\/george-clooney-biden-criminal-court-israel\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"sources confirmed \">sources confirmed <\/a>that the actor spoke to counselor to the president Steve Ricchetti after the ICC issued warrants for Netanyahu and the Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar for their respective alleged war crimes. At the time, Biden referred to the warrants against Netanyahu as \u201coutrageous.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Clooney\u2019s wife, Amal Alamuddin, is a prosecutor working with the ICC, where she has offered her legal expertise since 2005. Together, the couple created the Clooney Foundation for Justice in 2016 to pursue social justice causes. When the warrants were issued, Alamuddin shared her support.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI do not accept that any conflict should be beyond the reach of the law, nor that any perpetrator should be above the law,\u201d she wrote in a statement. \u201cSo I support the historic step that the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court has taken to bring justice to victims of atrocities in Israel and Palestine.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Biden and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY), among others, felt differently about the warrants. Jeffries has since invited the prime minister to speak before Congress.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe ICC prosecutor\u2019s application for arrest warrants against Israeli leaders is outrageous,\u201d Biden said in a statement. \u201cAnd let me be clear: whatever this prosecutor might imply, there is no equivalence \u2014 none \u2014 between Israel and Hamas. We will always stand with Israel against threats to its security.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe arrest warrant request by the\u00a0International\u00a0Criminal Court against democratically elected members of the Israeli government is shameful and unserious,\u201d Jeffries said in a statement. \u201cAmerica\u2019s commitment to Israel\u2019s security is ironclad. I join President Joe Biden in strongly condemning any equivalence between Israel and Hamas, a brutal terrorist organization.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Clooney previously <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/presidential\/3001140\/biden-campaign-to-hold-star-studded-la-fundraiser-report\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"helped host a fundraiser on Biden's behalf \">helped host a fundraiser on Biden\u2019s behalf <\/a>ahead of the 2020 election that earned him $7 million. He also personally donated $500,000 to the Biden-Harris campaign.<\/p>\n<p>The Clooneys have been married since 2014 and have two twin children together who are approaching the age of 7.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Actor George Clooney contacted the White House after President Joe Biden&#8217;s response to international warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Clooney spoke with presidential counselor Steve Ricchetti following the ICC&#8217;s issuance of warrants for Netanyahu and Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar due to alleged war crimes, confirmed by three sources<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2631,"featured_media":2262399,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/AP22338824899449.jpg.optimal.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2262398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/AP22338824899449.jpg.optimal.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2262398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2631"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2262398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2262398\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2262399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2262398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2262398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2262398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}