Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu flew over Greece, Italy, France and Canada on Thursday on his way to address the UN, despite an International Criminal Court warrant for his arrest.
The ICC issued an arrest warrant for Netanyahu in November 2024, on charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity allegedly committed in Gaza since October 2023.
Netanyahu arrived in the US for a short visit to address the UN General Assembly in New York, where Mayor Zohran Mamdani has said he does not have the authority to arrest the Israeli leader.
So basic that you can’t even answer how that would be achieved
It goes like this:
Plane carrying a person accused of crimes against humanity: “Air traffic control ICC this is airplane ABC-123 requesting permission to enter airspace DEF heading 123”
A country that is a signatory to the ICC and obligated to act on an international arrest warrant for persons wanted to stand trial for crimes against humanity if they enter their territory: “Permission denied, if you eneter this airspace you will be escorted to military base HIJ where you will be detained and escorted to the ICC to stand trail for crimes against humanity.”
And then they call your bluff and fly through anyway.
Then what? You shoot down the prime minister of Israel? You single handedly end NATO, make your nation a pariah, cause a rapid expansion of war in the Middle East, plunge the global market into a depression, and run the risk of causing a world war?
Yeah there’s a reason why none of these countries did anything. The ICC is a joke and always has been. It has zero actual authority and it’s only purpose has always been to maintain western dominance in the world.
That’s it.
So you think that these countries would let Putin fly through their airspace?
Absolutely. They’re not going to shoot down and kill a leader of a nuclear power. You’re absolutely insane if you think that’s the encase.
Which is why Putin flies over them whenever he likes, right?
Why would he? Where would he go that he would need to cross Europe? He has no reason to go to North America or anywhere west of Belarus.
Lol. Even you don’t believe what you’re saying
Planes demand access to airspace before entering it. Open a search engine if you want to find out more.
So arrogant
I’m well aware of that, but what do you actually expect to happen when that gets ignored? Threaten a plane carrying the leader of a nuclear power? That’ll go well.
I’d also love to see him in handcuffs but escalation is obviously unproductive when he can’t be safely arrested and planes requesting permission is only a courtesy when there are no consequences to defiance.
Do you really think Israel would nuke France if they grounded his plane?
I don’t think they’d immediately press the red button, but they clearly have a capacity to escalate and have shown in the middle east that they’re quite trigger happy
Israel would literally cease to exist if it got in a war with France. Israel isn’t going to war with fucking NATO
France shooting down Netanyahu would be the end of NATO immediately. There would be no war with NATO because NATO wouldn’t exist anymore.
A European nation assassinating Netanyahu would immediately plunge the entire Middle East into massive war, destroy the global market, and likely draw the US into war in Europe.
It’s not an “assassination”, dumbass.
It literally is an assassination.
You think the population of the US would want to go to war with France over the leader of a genocidal pariah state being downed legally?
What’s the support for the war with Iran again?
And just like your second example, public support wouldn’t matter in the slightest. We’re literally at war with Iran right now with basically nobody supporting it.
But France would have no allies even in Europe if they assassinated a Western leader like Netanyahu. They’d be a global pariah for plunging the world into a depression that would make the Great Depression look like child’s play.
How did we go from the mandated air denial by international law to shooting down an aircraft?
What’s your proposed response when said aircraft doesn’t follow your air denial and enters your airspace anyway?
There’s only two options. You either send fighters up and follow them until they leave, or you enforce said denial and shoot the aircraft down.
But you’ve already decided that no country should be expected to actually arrest him
What does “safely arrested” fucking mean? You’ve already declared that no country can use force against him, so he can just say “no” if any country tried to arrest him. He could literally hike through these countries and, according to you, there’s nothing they can do about it.
I literally never said either of those things and don’t agree with them either. But whatever, I’m not gonna continue to argue if you’re just going to make shit up.
Enjoy your echo chamber, buddy (apt username btw)
Yes you did, repeatedly. Lying dipshit
Go back to reddit you insufferable fucking loser
How do you think nations enforce their airspace normally?