After the ICC prosecutor sought arrest warrants for Israel’s leaders, Biden pulled a page from Trump’s playbook


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One of America's presidential candidates is notorious for attacking prosecutors and courts, undermining their decisions and disrespecting their independence. The other is not. Usually. But this week, Joe Biden adopted a quintessential Donald Trump move and hit out at a prosecutor for doing his job, while presenting no evidence to back his criticism. On Monday, the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) applied for arrest warrants for Israeli leaders Benjamin Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant, as well as three Hamas leaders. This was unprecedented. The court's past targets have included brutal dictators like Libya's Muammar Gaddafi and warlords like Uganda's...