Mamdani: [Netanyahu] Better Not Come To New York!

If we could only dream the NYPD being ordered to arrest Benjamin Netanyahu.

Republicans and some Democrats are outraged that the mayor of New York City is following the law. The United States has maintained it upholds the law. They keep saying that no one is above the law.

Well President Donald J. Trump and maybe Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

They think they are above the law.

Trump is a convicted felon, an adjudicated sexual predator, a habitual liar, a fraudster and a twice impeached president. He is seditionist. He is an unapologetic curmudgeon who cares more about being liked than doing his fucking job. A semi autistic billionaire driven mad by revenge. 

Netanyahu is almost close to Trump. He is not autistic. But he certainly a paranoid man with schizophrenia. 

Both are in cognitive decline.

Zohran Mamdani is a democratic socialist. He is unapologetic about how he believes the government should work for the people and not for the elite. He has pushed aggressive policies to make the United States' largest city more affordable. It is small steps but certainly a good path forward despite the noise.

Mamdani understands that the International Criminal Court has issued an arrest warrant for Netanyahu, Yoav Gallant and Israel Katz. They also have sanctions on President Issac Herzog, Itamar Ben-Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich. 

The member nations must uphold to the warrant. They will arrest him if he steps foot on their sovereignty.

Netanyahu has to take nearly six additional hours of flight to avoid countries that will honor the ICC warrant.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio recently stated that he will push for an audit of the ICC.

He vows to dismantle the court and punish judges and prosecutors who decided to put Netanyahu on the warrant.

Mamdani had vowed to follow the ICC warrant. The United States refuse to honor the arrest warrant. If he does come to the United States, he is freely allowed access to the nation. 

America first mayor.

He is on neutral soil when he goes to the United Nations in New York City. 

Once he steps off the United Nations sovereignty, he is in New York state.

In New York City he falls under the New York Police Department. Now with that being said, some Republicans and Democrats will literally shield this maniac.

Mamdani said his administration was still discussing whether to arrest the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, if he comes to New York City as expected for the U.N. General Assembly in September.

“I believe that Prime Minister Netanyahu belongs in the Hague,” Mamdani told Lulu Garcia-Navarro this week on “The Interview,” a New York Times show, referring to the home of the United Nations’ International Court of Justice.

“He’s a war criminal who has been charged by the International Criminal Court,” Mamdani added. “And what you will find is that is an opinion that is held by many, purely because of what his actions have wrought over these last many years.”

The mayor said he was unclear on whether he has the legal authority to order the New York Police Department, which he oversees, to detain a foreign leader like Netanyahu. He said he was in “an active conversation” with the city’s Law Department over the matter.

“Whatever the law allows me to do in New York City, that’s what we will do, but we won’t be writing our own laws to that end,” Mamdani added.

During his mayoral campaign last year, Mamdani said in an interview with The Times that he would order the Police Department to arrest Netanyahu, who is locked in his own re-election bid in Israel.

At the time, he said he would be honoring a warrant issued by the International Criminal Court after Netanyahu’s role in the war in Gaza, which Mamdani and a United Nations commission have called a genocide.

Netanyahu addressed Mamdani’s threat to arrest him during a recent radio appearance, saying he is not concerned, and he accused the mayor of supporting Hamas, the Palestinian militant group that controls a significant portion of Gaza. Hamas was responsible for the deadly attack in Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, which precipitated Israel’s deadly war in Gaza.

“I think he should look at who he's condemning, who he’s praising,” the prime minister said during an interview this week with Sid Rosenberg, a local radio personality and a frequent critic of Mamdani. “He’s condemning Israel, the one democracy that stands shoulder to shoulder with American values.”

“Who does he champion? Hamas, that calls openly to massacre every Jew on earth, that conducted that horrible massacre, the worst massacre on Jews since the Holocaust,” Netanyahu added.

He also said Mamdani “doesn’t care” that “those who hate the Jews and Israel ultimately hate America."

“And in fact I think secretly, he hates America,” Netanyahu added.

Mamdani does not speak positively about Hamas when he criticizes Netanyahu and has condemned the Oct. 7 attacks. He has made his extensive concerns about Israel a focal point of his political identity, raising the issue frequently. Several people who know him well have said he considers Palestinian liberation one of the most pressing moral issues of his time.

Mamdani’s views about Israel are no longer on the fringe of the Democratic Party. Nearly half of House Democrats voted this week to end U.S. aid to Israel, which was not enough for the measure to pass, but enough to demonstrate a shift in the party’s posture toward one of the country’s stalwart allies in the Middle East.