Mamdani’s baseless Netanyahu arrest order: Letters – Latest News
The Issue: Mayor Mamdani searching for authority to arrest Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu when he visits NYC.
Mayor Mamdani’s risk to arrest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu provides monumental fuel to the antisemitic inferno within the United States (“Zo: I’d like to bust Bibi,” July 19).
It serves as a highly effective incentive to perpetrate additional hatred and assaults towards Jews.
He says he’s going to do “what the law allows.”
Claiming the law justifies assaults towards Jews is one thing they’re all too aware of.
Whether the progenitor is a smarmy, smiling younger ideologue, or a goose-stepping, mustached maniac, the final word objective is identical — death to Jews.
Marc Kasowitz
Manhattan
There are three issues with Mamdani exploring whether or not he can arrest Netanyahu.
First, the United States doesn’t acknowledge the authority of the International Criminal Court.
Second, the Constitution establishes the supremacy of the federal authorities in formulating and executing international coverage.
Third, there’s no scarcity of issues in New York City which require the mayor’s consideration.
His performative and futile deliberations over arresting Netanyahu are a waste of time and metropolis taxpayer {dollars}.
Daniel Trigoboff
Williamsville
Former Mayors Robert Wagner, Ed Koch and Rudy Giuliani didn’t threaten Fidel Castro during the 3 times he spoke on the United Nations.
Mamdani in all probability would have introduced him with the important thing to the town.
T. King
Manhattan
Part of me hopes Mamdani follows by on his risk to have Netanyahu arrested.
He would study in a short time that political theater has legal penalties.
A mayor has no authority to show an ICC warrant into an NYPD arrest order.
The United States just isn’t a social gathering to the Rome Statute, and native officers don’t get to conduct international coverage.
If Mamdani really arrested Netanyahu, it might imply potential false imprisonment, civil-rights legal responsibility and probably federal legal publicity for inflicting the detention of a protected international official.
Mamdani wouldn’t be arresting Netanyahu — he can be creating Exhibit A towards himself.
Arie Blitz
Weslaco, Texas
I discover it wealthy that our self-important mayor desires the NYPD to arrest Netanyahu for killing terrorists.
Who will arrest Mamdani for permitting 15 New Yorkers to freeze to death?
Daniel Karas
Huntington
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We reap what we sow.
Mamdani wouldn’t have gained with out 30% of the Jewish vote.
Now — pandering to his DSA cronies — Mamdani is on the lookout for a solution to arrest Netanyahu.
His theatrics towards the Israeli prime minister merely symbolize his disdain for Israel and Jews who help it.
Sadly, now we have to tolerate his radical agenda for 3 ¹/₂ more years.
Yakov Moshe
Brooklyn
Although he’s the mayor of New York City, with all of its issues, Mamdani sows hate towards Jews and Israel by obsessing over how to arrest Netanyahu based mostly on a bogus charge of genocide by the prejudiced and corrupt ICC.
Is the “dishonorable” mayor getting his marching orders from the Middle East?
Why else would he obsess over an situation so unrelated to NYC?
Mel Young
West Dover, Vt.
Mamdani and his regime have no legal authority in any way to situation a municipal arrest warrant towards a sitting international head of state.
The United States doesn’t acknowledge the International Criminal Court, nor does it settle for its jurisdiction from which Netanyahu’s warrant was issued.
Mamdani’s proposal to arrest Netanyahu is simply one other instance of socialism’s first step towards establishing communism within the United States.
Without query, the intent of Mamdani and his Democratic Socialists of America is to tear aside the normal idea of the United States.
Earl Beal
Terre Haute, Ind.
So Mamdani is on the lookout for loopholes to arrest Netanyahu.
The solely one that needs to be arrested is Mamdani for impersonating being mayor of this as soon as great metropolis.
Sylvia Kane
Brooklyn
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