NYC Mayor Wants to Arrest Netanyahu at the UN
Zohran Mamdani is checking if NYC cops can slap handcuffs on Benjamin Netanyahu when he lands in town.
Netanyahu is coming to town in September for the UN General Assembly, and New York City's mayor is currently asking his legal team if local police can actually bust an international leader on an ICC warrant. Mamdani openly declared that Netanyahu belongs in The Hague for war crimes, insisting he is just following the law.
Naturally, the response was immediate chaos. Netanyahu previously fired back by claiming Mamdani secretly hates America and supports Hamas. Meanwhile, the US ambassador to the UN, Michael Waltz, dismissed the entire plan as pure political theater, pointing out that diplomatic immunity and international treaties make an arrest legally impossible.
Local city politics trying to execute an international arrest warrant on a foreign head of state at UN headquarters is certainly an ambitious diplomatic strategy.
Source: The New York Times
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