Published: 26 February 2021
Last updated: 4 March 2024
Netanyahu asked Biden to keep Trump's sanctions on International Criminal Court (Axios)
BARAK RAVID: Netanyahu asked Biden in their first phone call last week to keep sanctions imposed by the Trump administration on the International Criminal Court (ICC) in place, Israeli officials tell me.
Blinken calls on UN Human Rights Council to end 'unacceptable bias against Israel' (Al-Monitor)
Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced the Biden administration would seek full membership on the Geneva-based council
US seeks return to United Nations Human Rights Council three years after Donald Trump led its exit (ABC)
How Biden will end the Trump sugar high for Israel and Saudi Arabia (Politico)
AARON DAVID MILLER and RICHARD SOKOLSKY
After years of getting everything they wanted, the Middle East’s biggest egos will have to learn to do with less as the new president focuses on crises at home.
Biden deprioritises the Middle East (Politico)
The president has a tortured history in the region. Early signs suggests he wants to focus elsewhere
Photo: ICC chief prosecutor Fatou Bensouda
