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Mayor of Arab-American capital says his city will abide by ICC warrant and arrest Netanyahu (www.middleeasteye.net)

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The mayor of Dearborn, Michigan, home to the largest concentration of Arab Americans in the US, has said that local police would arrest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu if he stepped foot in the city.

Abdullah Hammoud shared his statement on X shortly after the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued arrest warrants on Thursday for Netanyahu, his former Defence Minister Yoav Gallant, and a senior Hamas leader in Gaza, Mohammed al-Deif.

The US is not beholden to the ICC because it is not a signatory to the Rome Statute, a treaty that established the court in 1998. There are 124 countries that are state parties to the Rome Statute, including Canada, the UK, and the European Union.

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[–] Grapho@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

He'd get promptly executed by a lone extremist gunman who'd promptly kill himself before he could say "hold up my buddies at the CIA said-".

Nice sentiment tho.