{"id":9021,"date":"2025-12-14T15:10:04","date_gmt":"2025-12-14T15:10:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/aipac-bought-and-paid-for-moonbat-calls-on-us-to-invade-the-hague-over-icc-arrest-warrants-middle-east-monitor\/"},"modified":"2025-12-14T15:10:04","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T15:10:04","slug":"aipac-bought-and-paid-for-moonbat-calls-on-us-to-invade-the-hague-over-icc-arrest-warrants-middle-east-monitor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/aipac-bought-and-paid-for-moonbat-calls-on-us-to-invade-the-hague-over-icc-arrest-warrants-middle-east-monitor\/","title":{"rendered":"AIPAC-bought-and-paid-for moonbat calls on US to invade The Hague over ICC arrest warrants \u2013 Middle East Monitor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The term \u201cmoonbat\u201d is a pejorative political epithet originating in the 19th century and used widely in the US. It is normally used to insult those on the political left, but I think it is eminently suitable to describe Tom Cotton, the Republican US Senator for the state of Arkansas. Cotton, 47, was incandescent with rage on hearing that the International Criminal Court has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2024\/11\/21\/how-us-politicians-responded-to-netanyahus-icc-arrest-warrant\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">issued<\/a> arrest warrants for Israel\u2019s genocidal Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his former defence minister Yoav Gallant.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, I\u2019m using the g-word and I\u2019m buoyed to see that&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20241122-aipac-bought-and-paid-for-moonbat-calls-on-us-to-invade-the-hague-over-icc-arrest-warrants\/#comment-6792739558\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The term \u201cmoonbat\u201d is a pejorative political epithet originating in the 19th century and used widely in the US. It is normally&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3459],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-middle-east"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9021\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}