Israel also joined the US in starting the war against Iran on February 28 before launching a ground invasion in southern Lebanon in response to fire from the Iranian-backed Hezbollah group in early March.<\/p>\n
Netanyahu on Sunday dismissed the International Criminal Court\u2019s war crimes charges against him as \u201cbogus.\u201d He pointed to sexual misconduct allegations against the ICC\u2019s top prosecutor, Karim Khan, who was removed from that post on Friday, and said the warrant was an attempt to divert attention.<\/p>\n
\t \u201cHe thought, if there\u2019s an indictment, I\u2019m going to have a job. There was an indictment, and he lost his job,\u201d the premier joked.<\/p>\n \u201cHe lost his job because he was removed by a vast majority of nations who knew that he was a con job.\u201d<\/p>\n The mayor\u2019s office did not immediately respond to a request for comment Sunday.<\/p>\n Bipartisan US support for Israel at risk, Netanyahu says<\/p>\n Netanyahu said he was concerned that once-bipartisan political support for Israel in the US is at risk, particularly as progressive and far-left Democrats aligned with the Mamdani wing of the party splinter.<\/p>\n He alleged that the mainstream Democrats were joining the party\u2019s anti-Israel \u201cfringe\u201d because their families are being harassed by activists.<\/p>\n He also warned against rising antisemitism in the US and other Western countries, saying that when he talks to people in New York City, home to the second-largest Jewish population in the world, \u201cJews feel very uncomfortable.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cAnd I think it\u2019s wrong. The whole thing is wrong,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n Throughout his mayoral election campaign last year, Mamdani said he would seek to order the city\u2019s police to execute the ICC\u2019s arrest warrant over Netanyahu\u2019s role in the war in Gaza.<\/p>\n \t But Mamdani acknowledged last week that his city did not have the legal authority to arrest Netanyahu and called on federal authorities to step in.<\/p>\n \u201cI want to be equally clear, Benjamin Netanyahu is not welcome in New York City, nor is any other war criminal at large,\u201d he said in a video message.<\/p>\n He told New Yorkers that he understood their frustration and that expressions of protest is something the city would \u201calways respect.\u201d<\/p>\n The Hague-based court has accused Netanyahu, his former defense minister Yoav Gallant, and the former leaders of Hamas of crimes against humanity. The Hamas leaders charged by the ICC were subsequently killed by Israel, voiding their arrest warrants. The Hamas-run Health Ministry in Gaza says over 73,000 people have been killed in Israel\u2019s offensive \u2014 roughly half of them women and children, although it does not differentiate between combatants and civilians.<\/p>\n Some 1,200 people, most of them civilians, were killed in the October 7, 2023, Hamas attack on Israel.<\/p>\n Trump has assured Netanyahu he won\u2019t be arrested<\/p>\n Trump told Netanyahu in a social media post Monday that he \u201cwill not be arrested, in any way, shape, or form, while in the United States of America.\u201d<\/p>\n Netanyahu is expected in Washington this week to meet with Trump and attend funeral services for the late Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina.<\/p>\n Graham, a leading defense hawk and strong supporter of Israel, died suddenly two weeks ago of a likely torn aorta. The prime minister called him an \u201cextraordinary American patriot.\u201d<\/p>\n
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