Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu flew over Greece, Italy, France and Canada on Thursday on his way to address the UN, despite an International Criminal Court warrant for his arrest.
The ICC issued an arrest warrant for Netanyahu in November 2024, on charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity allegedly committed in Gaza since October 2023.
Netanyahu arrived in the US for a short visit to address the UN General Assembly in New York, where Mayor Zohran Mamdani has said he does not have the authority to arrest the Israeli leader.
the west’s rules based international order is dead , and they killed it themselves
The Western imperialist rules-based order is the same as it ever was: they make up the rules and order everyone else around.
turns out the “international” law only applies to the global south and that the “international community” is just the NATO and friends.
Remember when France did this on Obama’s orders in 2013? Bolivia Presidential plane forced to land after false rumors of Snowden onboard.
“Poor Impulse Control”
The rules bent order
where Mayor Zohran Mamdani has said he does not have the authority to arrest the Israeli leader.
As expected, he knew this very well
Putting aside the question of whether the leadership of those countries actually wanted to arrest him, it’s not obvious to me what they could actually do.
When an aircraft is passing through, and not actually landing, they could order it to land (which it would refuse to do, presumably), then they could resort to some posturing with fighter aircraft, then they would either have to give up or shoot down a foreign head of state.
Unless they’re willing to immediately go to war with Israel and the US, and likely a bunch of other countries, there’s really nothing they can do about it
Western
ValuesHypocrisy laid bare:Rules for thee, virtue signalling for me.
there’s really nothing they can do about it
Do you think Putin could go through these European airspace without being challenged?
Give us some more of that mental gymnastics, bud.
They should withdraw from the icc then
If a cop wants you to stop your car, don’t do it, you can just keep driving.
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Not give it passage through their airspace. The most basic things.
So basic that you can’t even answer how that would be achieved
Planes demand access to airspace before entering it. Open a search engine if you want to find out more.
How do you think nations enforce their airspace normally?
You plan to not give passage with your amazing mind control skills?
Your “basic things” proposal needs to be pragmatic.
How do you think nations enforce their airspace normally?
I know I’ve been posting this a lot but not only is the US not a member of the ICC, but the president is permitted to “all means necessary and appropriate” to free any covered US person or covered allied person if they are arrested. Israel is one of the countries explicitly listed as covered, and the definition of covered includes government officials.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Service-Members'_Protection_Act
France has said they consider heads of states that are not signatories to the treaty to have diplomatic immunity, despite the ICC having jurisdiction over Palestine (who is a signatory).I haven’t heard excuses from the other countries 🕵️♀️I was tricked by an ad into thinking I was done the article 🤦♀️. Lots of great info, answering questions I didn’t know I had!
The only takeaway is that when Israel said the ICC is only for African and Arab leaders and not for Western countries and colonies, they were completely right.
The ICC and ICJ are useless Western colonialist institutions which should be dismantled ASAP. Trump is doing the rest of the world a favor by destroying the farce.
I highlight this law not to make comment on the value of the ICC, but to point out that the current admin is just joining 24 years of opposition to it.
Yes I’m sure the blue team would do something about all those war crimes, just like they did when they were in office.
Yes I’m sure the blue team would do something about all those war crimes, just like they did when they were in office.
it’s mind boggling to know that the blue team will still continue on insisting that they’re better than the red team when it comes to war crimes as if it mattered.
The icj never declared a single genocide as a genocide until the genocide end.
To young for the Milosevic trial?
They try hard to erase it from the web but if you can find it it’s a glorious piece of theatre.
The pompous Brit judge in his silly costume and wig trying his best to pretend it’s not a kangaroo court.
Yet having to intervene and stop Milosevic (doing his own defense) every 5 minutes when he cornered a ‘witness’ and exposed their lies. “we will continue behind closed doors for this part” LOL You should watch it, better than any Hollywood court drama.
