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On \u201cThe Interview,\u201d Zohran Mamdani, mayor of New York City, answered questions about how he would handle a visit from Benjamin Netanyahu, the prime minister of Israel.<\/p>\nnew video loaded: Zohran Mamdani: \u2018Netanyahu Belongs in the Hague\u2019<\/p>\n
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Zohran Mamdani: \u2018Netanyahu Belongs in the Hague\u2019On \u201cThe Interview,\u201d Zohran Mamdani, mayor of New York City, answered questions about how he would handle a visit from Benjamin Netanyahu, the prime minister of Israel.<\/p>\n
Israel\u2019s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, is perhaps planning to visit New York for the U.N. General Assembly. You pledged during your campaign, and after you won, to order his arrest to comply with an International Criminal Court warrant. What will happen if he comes in September? Look, I believe that Prime Minister Netanyahu belongs in The Hague. He\u2019s a war criminal who has been charged by the International Criminal Court. And what you will find is that is an opinion that is held by many purely because of what his actions have wrought over these last many years. I\u2019ve also said that I will follow the laws that we have here in New York City because I believe that there\u2019s an importance in following the law as a leader who presides over our city. And that\u2019s something that I plan to do. Meaning? I\u2019m sorry. I don\u2019t understand what that means. Meaning that whatever 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. What does the law allow you to do? That\u2019s an active conversation with our legal department, in seeing what the prospects are that we have here in our municipality. However, what we\u2019ve seen at the national level is a desire sometimes to write your own laws, to go outside of the bounds of legality. That\u2019s not something we have an interest in. I mean, normally when people come to a U.N. General Assembly, they\u2019re granted a sort of amnesty because it is the seat of the United Nations. Is that what you\u2019re thinking that you\u2019ll honor, or you\u2019re actively looking to see if you can actually arrest him? I think we are looking at all of our legal obligations, and one of them is with regards to the United Nations. But the other part of this is, is we\u2019re not talking about a personal assessment of Benjamin Netanyahu. We\u2019re talking about the International Criminal Court and the fact that they have a warrant out for this prime minister\u2019s arrest. And I think it\u2019s, it\u2019s important to talk about the weight that that has as a charge, and also that as the mayor of New York City, I\u2019ll be following the laws of New York City.<\/p>\n
On \u201cThe Interview,\u201d Zohran Mamdani, mayor of New York City, answered questions about how he would handle a visit from Benjamin Netanyahu, the prime minister of Israel.<\/p>\n
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