{"id":3643,"date":"2026-07-20T23:39:43","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T23:39:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nextaddressamerica.com\/?p=3643"},"modified":"2026-07-20T23:39:43","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T23:39:43","slug":"showdown-brewing-between-trump-and-mamdani-over-netanyahu-arrest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nextaddressamerica.com\/?p=3643","title":{"rendered":"Showdown brewing between Trump and Mamdani over Netanyahu arrest"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>US President Donald Trump declared Monday that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu\u2014who is wanted by the International Criminal Court for alleged crimes against humanity and war crimes in Gaza\u2014will be safe from arrest in the United States after New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani said he was exploring whether he could apprehend the fugitive during his planned visit to the United Nations in September.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/nextaddressamerica.com\/?p=3642\">How a severe religious sect could doom Trump ally in bruising swing state fight<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cNetanyahu will not be arrested, in any way, shape, or form, while in the United States of America,\u201d Trump said on his Truth Social network.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe is fighting against the Islamic Republic of Iran, which recently killed 52,000 innocent protestors, and has spent the last 47 years killing American Soldiers, and others,\u201d the president continued, citing a protest death claim made by opponents of the Iranian government, which said that 3,117 people were killed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe only ones that should be arrested,\u201d Trump added, \u201care the people that led Iran into this unprecedented SPIRAL OF DEATH AND DESTRUCTION, something that should have been dealt with years ago, by previous Presidents!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The US and Israel are currently waging an illegal war of choice against Iran.<\/p>\n<p>Trump\u2019s post followed weekend remarks by Mamdani, who told The New York Times that Netanyahu \u201cbelongs in The Hague,\u201d the Dutch city that\u2019s home to both the International Criminal Court (ICC) and the International Court of Justice, where a genocide case against Israel filed by South Africa in 2023 is pending.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s a war criminal who has been charged by the International Criminal Court,\u201d the mayor said. \u201cI will follow the laws that we have here in New York City because I believe that there is an importance in following the law as a leader who presides over our city.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhatever the law allows me to do in New York City, that\u2019s what we will do, but we won\u2019t be writing our own laws to that end,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Mamdani was asked about his remarks during a Monday press conference.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re speaking about someone who\u2019s the subject of an International Criminal Court arrest warrant,\u201d he said of Netanyahu. \u201cAnd he\u2019s the subject of this arrest warrant for alleged crimes against humanity, for war crimes, and he\u2019s the architect of the genocide against Palestinians in Gaza as Israel\u2019s prime minister. These are not facts of my personal assessment; they are facts of public record.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/nextaddressamerica.com\/?p=3640\">A Trump-endorsed Senate candidate seems poised to lose a key swing state<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd I believe that when someone is charged with an International Criminal Court warrant, it\u2019s something that should be taken seriously, whether it\u2019s Benjamin Netanyahu or it\u2019s [Russian President] Vladimir Putin, or whomever else,\u201d Mamdani added. \u201cWhat I\u2019ve also made clear is that my administration will follow all applicable local laws. That is our commitment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Although neither the US nor Israel is an ICC member, Palestine is a state party to the , the treaty governing the tribunal, Articles 12 and 13 of the document say that individuals from nonsignatory nations can be held liable for crimes committed in the territory of a member state.<\/p>\n<p>Article 27 of the Rome Statute also says that serving as a head of state or government, or as any elected official, \u201cshall in no case exempt a person from criminal responsibility\u201d before the court.<\/p>\n<p>However, Article 98 of the treaty may limit governments\u2019 obligation to execute an ICC arrest warrant in certain circumstances involving officials of nonparty states.<\/p>\n<p>Netanyanu and Yoav Gallant, his former defense minister, are accused of murder and forced starvation in Gaza following the October 7, 2023 Hamas-led attack on Israel, the deadliest in that country\u2019s history.<\/p>\n<p>Israeli forces have killed more than 73,000 Palestinians, over 21,500 of them children, in Gaza since October 2023, while wounding over 173,500 others, according to Palestinian officials. More than 2 million other Gazans have been forcibly displaced\u2014often multiple times\u2014starved, or sickened by the US-backed war, which UN and other experts say is a genocide.<\/p>\n<p>While numerous Global South nations\u2014particularly members of the Hague Group\u2014and US allies including Belgium, Canada, Ireland, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, and Spain have publicly said they would enforce the warrants for Netanyahu and Gallant, other nations including France and Hungary have said they would not try to arrest the Israelis if they entered their territory.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/nextaddressamerica.com\/?p=3638\">Fox News would call for impeachment if economy was this bad under Obama: ex-Trump aide<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US President Donald Trump declared Monday that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu\u2014who is wanted by the International Criminal Court for alleged crimes against humanity and war crimes in Gaza\u2014will be safe from arrest in the United States after New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani said he was exp&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":856,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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