Mayor Mamdani: hereโs why your threat to arrest PM Netanyahuโs in NYC during UNGA is not going to happen:
1. The U.S. is not party to the Rome Statute that underlies the ICC,
2. The UN Headquarters Agreement grants diplomatic protections to visiting heads of govโt,
3. head-of-state immunity applies, &
4. federal authority trumps any local mayorโs wishes.
This is pure political theater.
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Three years later, the UN is finally ready to admit what weโve known from the start: terrorists in Gaza are blocking humanitarian aid. This only harms innocent civilians and must be immediately condemned.
๐ฅNEW: James Carville: โI actually do think it's time for Democrats to talk the S word: โSchismโ ... there's just some sh*t that I can't be in the same tent with ... I'm done ... I don't want to be in a political party that denies the right of the state of Israel to exist.โ
Hundreds of miles of Hezbollah tunnels in Southern Lebanon (many fully equipped) are slowly being discovered. Funded (billions) by Iran for the sole purpose of planning and launching attacks against Israelโฆ a terror army that should not be allowed to exist in Lebanon.
Vance won't stop speaking about a "transformed" Iran.
And Iran won't stop being the same old Iran it's been for 47 years, unchanged but now newly empowered.
The repeated Hezbollah attacks against the IDF, including the strike last night that left a dozen wounded and killed four Israeli soldiers and officers, are not skirmishes. They are part of a deliberate strategy by the Islamic Republic of Iran to use its proxy, Hezbollah, to attack Israel while testing the limits of the agreement it signed with the United States.
It would be very easy for the IRGC to order Hezbollah to stand down, at least for these days, or simply to abide by the terms of the ceasefire signed in 2024. They are choosing not to do that. Instead, they are directing Hezbollah to escalate. When Israel responds they go and threaten the U.S. that negotiations will collapse, blaming Israel.
Tehran wants to humiliate the United States and make sure it can revive its proxy network, and to establish an equation in which Iran enjoys sanctions relief, petrodollars, and reintegration into the global economy while continuing, through its proxies, to kill Israelis, Arabs and probably Americans, just as it has done for decades.
None of this is accidental. It is deliberate. The West does not fully understands that this is the real test; or worse- it does, and does not care. Tehran is trying to determine whether it can enjoy the benefits of normalization while continuing its campaign of terror.
Matt Duss says he doesn't know what the U.S. gets from its alliance with Israel. Let us assist. We get: missile defense the Pentagon uses. Intelligence on Iran no one else can provide. Counterterror cooperation. Battlefield-tested tech. A stable democratic partner in the world's most volatile region.
End the relationship and the world won't magically improve โ but you will invite more influence and aggression from Iran, Russia, and China, and less American power and leverage.
Is this true? Does this member of Carney's council tasked with combating antisemitism refuse to condemn Hamas and Hezbollah?
The same Hamas whose covenant calls for the killing of Jews -- not pesky Zionists, mind you, but Jews?
The same Hamas whose children's programming carries insane conspiracy theories about Jews? (Again, not Israelis. Jews.)
The same Hamas born of the Muslim Brotherhood and its Nazi-esque antisemitic discourse?
When can we just conclude that Carney isn't remotely interested in tackling antisemitism -- which in Canada's case is disproportionately a Muslim-community phenomenon -- but that he's actually covering for it?
@NYCMayor No she is not a nakba survivor. She is a Bosnian who moved to England, then moved to the british mandate of Palestine (colonial England), then sold their land when it became controlled by Jordanian Arabs. Why do you lie? The picture in the background was createdd by a zionist
How is getting $8 billion from State coffers and $2.3 billion from deferring pension payments bringing a budget down to zero?
The same NYC taxpayers that pay the bulk of NYC taxes are paying the $8 billion of state taxes that are funding the budget gap.
This budget โfixโ is robbing Peter to pay Paul and it didnโt work out well for either of them.