ain't no doubt, the empire fully supports genocide; 

U.S. House of Representatives Republicans are reportedly gearing up for a bill that would bestow sanctions on the International Criminal Court (ICC), should it proceed to issue arrest warrants for Israeli officials due to crimes they are committing in Gaza.

House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Michael McCaul (R-TX) acknowledged on Tuesday that legislation imposing sanctions is in the drafting stage. According to him, the move is merely precautionary at the moment. "We want to emphasize to him that going down this road of arrest warrants is a really bad idea and it's going to blow up the relationship," McCaul said. "We're not sure if the arrest warrants are imminent, but it's sort of a precaution to let them know that, if they do, we have this legislation ready to go. It won't be put on the floor unless we have to."

He also said that lawmakers continue to communicate with ICC prosecutor Karim Khan, stressing the repercussions should the ICC proceed with warrants. McCaul said the House sanctions legislation would be an extension of a Senate bill introduced last year that targets ICC officials involved in investigating U.S. allies who are not members of the international court, including Israel.

McCaul said the bill would be a House companion to Sen. Tom Cotton's (R-AK.) legislation, introduced last February, to sanction ICC officials involved in probes of U.S. allies who are not ICC members, such as Israel, Axios reported. Cotton, along with a dozen of his Senate Republican colleagues, issued a letter to Khan on Monday warning him against prosecuting Israeli officials. According to him, Khan, his staff and his family could all be the targets of sanctions and barred from entering the United States..........more.....