Netanyahu fires back at NYC Mayor Mamdani's vow to enforce 'bogus arrest warrant'

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's agency is accusing New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani of attacking nan Jewish authorities to distract from his grounds successful New York aft calling Netanyahu a "war criminal."

The premier minister's agency fired backmost Sunday aft nan Democratic politician said his management was exploring whether it could apprehension nan Israeli leader during an expected sojourn to nan metropolis nether nan International Criminal Court's warrant.

"The ICC is simply a kangaroo tribunal that has nary jurisdiction complete Americans aliases Israelis," Netanyahu's agency wrote successful an X station Sunday, amid caller reports he is nearing a travel to nan White House to meet pinch President Donald Trump.

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New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani has threatened to enforce nan International Criminal Court's apprehension warrant connected Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. (Getty Images)

"Its bogus apprehension warrant against Prime Minister Netanyahu was issued by a disgraced erstwhile ICC Prosecutor, Karim Khan, a fewer days earlier allegations of intersexual misconduct against him became public," Netanyahu's agency said. "It was a clear effort by Khan to divert nationalist attraction and activity protection from scrutiny."

Mamdani is pursuing nan aforesaid playbook, nan agency added.

"Instead of backing Khan's criminal behaviour, Mr. Mamdani should attraction connected fixing nan harm his policies person caused New York," nan station concluded. "Like Karim Khan, Mamdani appears willing successful diverting nationalist attraction from his follies and attacking nan leader of nan Jewish authorities and nan only populist successful the Middle East."

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Israel vowed to disregard nan ICC warrant while it roots Hamas, "a genocidal violent organization ," retired of Gaza.

Under Prime Minister Netanyahu's leadership, Israel has taken unprecedented wartime measures to minimize harm to civilians while confronting Hamas, a genocidal violent statement that uses Palestinians arsenic quality shields and deliberately targets guiltless Israeli civilians," nan office's station read.

Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo told Fox News' "Fox & Friends Weekend" earlier Sunday that Mamdani is ostensibly hyperbolizing for "political theater."

"This is simply a communist, antisemitic politician trying to make news for his ain audience," Pompeo said. "There's thing much than that. This is nary chance he's going to apprehension Prime Minister Netanyahu erstwhile he comes to New York successful September for nan U.N. General assembly.

"It's conscionable simply not going to happen, and he knows it."

Even immoderate Democrats person rejected Mamdani's stance, informing it could embolden terrorists astatine location and abroad.

"This isn’t a assemblage protest," erstwhile Democrat Mayor Eric Adams wrote connected X. "This is nan City of New York."

"Threatening to apprehension nan democratically elected leader of 1 of America’s closest friends during U.N. General Assembly week isn’t bold. It’s reckless," Adams continued. "American diplomats, work members, and officials are stationed successful vulnerable places astir nan world. Irresponsible rhetoric for illustration this doesn’t enactment successful New York. It tin put Americans astatine greater consequence abroad. Leadership intends knowing that your words person consequences. Reckless governmental theatre tin person very real-world costs."

Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., has agelong surgery pinch Democrats connected becoming nan "anti-Israel party," telling nan "clown" Mamdani to "sit down."

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"It's specified a reliable feline to opportunity that benignant of thing," Fetterman told Fox News' "Sunday Morning Futures." "He has nary measurement to do that, of course. Obviously, America is not moreover portion of that corrupt court. And truthful he's conscionable a comedian to moreover opportunity that. So he won't effort that. Just beryllium down and attraction connected different nan problems that they person successful New York. That's really not your purview. You and I cognize that. Sit down."