Netanyahu plans New York trip despite Mamdani arrest threat

Israeli leader Benjamin Netanyahu says he will still visit New York despite mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani’s pledge to enforce an ICC arrest warrant.

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00:00Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says he still plans to travel to New York,

00:05despite mayor-elect Zoran Mamdani vowing to arrest him under an International Criminal Court or ICC warrant.

00:12Mamdani says he supports Israel's right to exist, but stops short of saying it has the right to be a Jewish state,

00:19arguing that no country should have a hierarchy of citizenship based on religion or any other marker.

00:24The Democratic Socialist, set to become New York's first Muslim and first South Asian mayor,

00:32has vowed to direct the NYPD to enforce ICC warrants, including those for Netanyahu and Russian President Vladimir Putin.

00:40The ICC said it has reasonable grounds to believe Netanyahu is responsible for alleged war crimes in the Gaza offensive.

00:47But legal experts say any arrest is highly unlikely, and note that such authority rests with the federal government.

00:54Washington, under President Donald Trump, has been a firm defender of Israel and has even sanctioned ICC officials.