It is “one of the most ridiculous and irrational things” that the International Criminal Court would issue arrest warrants against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his former defense minister, Mike Huckabee, who is President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee as ambassador to Israel, told Newsmax on Friday.

“I was outraged,” Huckabee, a former governor of Arkansas, told Newsmax’s “Wake Up America.” “The ICC is a joke, but it’s a bad joke, and the tragedy is, it’s not funny. It’s not funny because they are playing with absolute fire.”

The ICC’s warrants accuse Netanyahu and former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant of committing the war crime of starvation, as well as crimes against humanity of murder, persecution, and other inhumane acts against Hamas after the Iranian-backed group’s terrorist attack on Oct. 7, 2023.

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