Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had a terse response when questioned about a Gotham mayoral hopeful’s intent to arrest him while the president landed a joke.
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Monday in Washington, D.C., Netanyahu led a delegation to meet with President Donald Trump and administration officials. In addition to nominating the commander-in-chief for a Nobel Peace Prize, the prime minister deigned New York State Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani threat of arrest over alleged violations of “international law” as “just not serious.”
While fielding questions from reporters, Netanyahu was asked about previous statements from New York City’s Democratic Party mayoral nominee calling for the arrest to which he replied, “I’m not concerned about that,” as the president quipped, “I’ll get him out.”
“Look, there’s enough craziness in the world, but I guess it never ends,” continued Netanyahu who referred to the threat as “silly in many ways, because it’s just not serious.”
The self-identified democratic socialist had said of the leader of the Jewish state in December that, “as mayor, New York City would arrest Benjamin Netanyahu.”
“This is a city that our values are in line with international law. It’s time that our actions are also,” he’d continued as he referenced the arrest warrant issued by the International Criminal Court for which Secretary of State Marco Rubio had sanctioned the judges responsible at the beginning of June.
Netanyahu went on about the broader matters concerning efforts at peace in the region, “After October 7th, people said the Palestinians had a state, Hamas state in Gaza, and look what they did with it. They didn’t build it up. They built down into bunkers, into terror tunnels, after which they massacred our people, raped our women, beheaded our men, invaded our cities and our towns and our kibbutzim, and did horrendous, horrendous massacres, the kind of which we didn’t see since World War II and the Nazis — the Holocaust.”
“So people aren’t likely to say, let’s just give them another state. It’ll be a platform to destroy Israel. We’ll work out a peace with our Palestinian neighbors, those who don’t want to destroy us, and we’ll work out a peace in which our security, the sovereign power of security, always remains in our hands,” he added as the president had expressed his intent to expand the Abraham Accords.
Trump
“We don’t know who the mayor is going to be yet, but this is a communist. He’s not a socialist. He’s a communist, and he’s said some really bad things about Jewish people, and he’s said some really bad things about a lot of people.”
“He might make it. But, you know, it all comes through the White House. He needs the money through the White House. He needs a lot.”
“He’s gonna behave. He’ll behave. He better behave. Otherwise, he’s gonna have big problems.”
Netanyahu
“I’m going to come there with the President Trump and we’ll see.”
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Author: Kevin Haggerty
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