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Netanyahu to skip Board of Peace signing amid ICC arrest warrant (www.haaretz.com)

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[–] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 17 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Oh ffs, will countries please stop warning war criminals that they will arrest them if they come to their country? Just stay silent and yoink his ass as soon as he lands...

[–] davel@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

They won’t stop. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Service-Members%27_Protection_Act

[–] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

That has nothing to do with Netanyahu, but there are plenty of US war criminals too i guess. Under Trump it might be enforced, but i doubt it would actually have been under previous presidents.

[–] manuallybreathing@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 month ago

If they weren't going to enforce it, they wouldn't have dreamed it up, it's from 2002, 12 months before they invaded Iraq

Israel is effectively a USA colony, I dont doubt they'd spring Netanyahu