There is no equivalence between Israel and Hamas. Equating a democratic state with a terror group that rapes, murders, delights in acts of genocide and eagerly aims to maximize civilian deaths demonstrates the ICC’s gaping moral failure. No other nation is held to this standard.

Washington D.C. – U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (FL-25) released the following statement based on the International Criminal Court’s announcement Monday that it will seek to arrest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and other Israeli leaders:

“There is no equivalence between Israel and Hamas. Equating a democratic state with a terror group that rapes, murders, delights in acts of genocide and eagerly aims to maximize civilian deaths demonstrates the ICC’s gaping moral failure. No other nation is held to this standard.”