In this week's Update, we focus on a core issue with the Biden
administration's approach to foreign policy: their failure to back up
words with actions. This failure stretches into a number of arenas with
which Israel's supporters are concerned, but this week we'll focus
on Team Biden's interactions with the International Criminal Court
(ICC) and the Palestinian Authority (PA).

Dear ICC, Please Do as We Ask?

On Friday, the Biden administration announced they were ending Trump
administration era sanctions against members of the ICC who had
unilaterally extended jurisdiction to American military actions in
Afghanistan and Israeli actions subsequent to the kidnapping and murder
of three Israeli teenagers in 2014.

Neither the US nor Israel are members of the ICC. And no American or
Israeli administration has ever acquiesced to the ICC's jurisdiction.
Interestingly, the Biden administration's statements remain consistent
with this policy. In fact, in the very announcement ending the sanctions
against relevant ICC personnel, the State Department noted, "We
maintain our longstanding objection to the Court's efforts to assert
jurisdiction over personnel of non-States Parties such as the United
States and Israel."

So why has the Biden administration ended the sanctions against those
people responsible for targeting American and Israeli soldiers? Because
they feel "engagement with all stakeholders in the ICC process" is
the answer to the ICC's brazen actions. Unfortunately, if this
approach worked, we wouldn't be in the present situation to begin
with.

Dear PA: Pretty Please....?

You'll not be surprised to learn that the PA has continued its
pay-to-slay program. You know the one: where they pay terrorists and
their families a stipend for killing innocent people. Several years ago,
Congress advanced and President Trump signed legislation, the Taylor
Force Act, into law that prevented American taxpayer dollars from ending
up in the hands of the PA so long as that entity paid terrorists to kill
people.

In January, the Biden administration assured the American people that
"the Biden-Harris administration will fully comply with US law,
including the Taylor Force Act." Yet last week we learned that the US
plans on sending $100 million to the Palestinians. The vast majority of
these funds were not made public, and we only learned about them after
the State Department and the U.S. Agency for International Development
(USAID) quietly notified Congress of the intention to provide the aid.

Moreover, and not to put too fine a point on it, but according to news
coverage, news of the Biden administration's plans came just a few
hours after the release of a Government Accountability Office report
which noted that USAID "had not properly vetted all of its Palestinian
funding recipients for U.S. antiterrorism criteria as required by
law."

Put simply, the Biden administration has sent the ICC, the PA, and
America's adversaries a bad message: do as we ask, or we'll issue
some strongly worded statements, and then engage with you.

President Theodore Roosevelt's approach to foreign policy was to
"speak softly and carry a big stick." President Biden's appears to
be the opposite.

Yom HaShoah

Holocaust Remembrance Day begins this evening and will be commemorated
tomorrow. In Israel, sirens will sound throughout the land and the
entire nation will stop what they are doing, stand still, and
contemplate the enormous loss and lessons of the genocide by which all
others are measured.

CUFI's founder and Chairman Pastor John Hagee has often said that if
we love the Jews of the Bible but refuse to stand up for the Jews in our
communities, our country and our world, we are failing to fulfil God's
biblical mandate to stand with His people.

From advancing Holocaust education initiatives at the state level to
standing up to misguided federal foreign policies that imperil Israel,
at the CUFI Action Fund our mission is to serve as the voice of those
Christians-like you-who know the importance of this solemn day and
choose, not just today but every day, to act upon God's mandate to
stand alongside our Jewish brothers and sisters and fulfill the promise
of

**Never Again**.

To borrow the words of CUFI's dear friend and Holocaust survivor, the
late Irving Roth, spoken to those who participated in CUFI's Living
Witness Tour to Poland, your participation in CUFI "has taken the
words Never Again and is making reality from it. And for that, I'm
thankful for you. The Jewish people are thankful for you. And I believe
that humanity should be thankful for you. You are the righteous of the
world - a heavy burden. But I know, deep in my heart, you're up to the
test. And that gives me hope for the future."

As always, we are grateful to you for your commitment to ensuring the
evils of the past are never repeated and America stands with Israel, our
friend and ally.

Sincerely,

CUFI Action Fund Team

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