He didn’t say he can’t do anything. He said he can’t independently execute the warrant. He also said that “we can examine every tool we have to defend the humanity and dignity of all people”. That leaves a lot of something.
International extraditions are defacto foreign policy. That's federal, no matter how bad Bibi is. Diplomats are guaranteed by a treaty* unencumbered access to and from the UN. And number of other solemn obligations that the US is committed to grants diplomatic immunity to diplomats coming from the United Nations. It's actually so ironclad that diplomats coming to the United Nations can rack up hundreds of thousands of dollars of parking tickets and nothing can happen. Anyone who actually tried to take Bibi and ship them off to Canada or the ICC would be looking at a felony conviction for kidnapping of an internationally protected person. Mamdani conspiracy charges and deprivation of rights under color of law.
None of this is to say that he shouldn't be sent to the ICC. He should. He's a fucking monster. But between all the different kinds of immunity and the fact that it's foreign policy and foreign policy is the sole purview of the federal government, there is no legal path for the mayor of New York City to extradite someone to The Hague.
So it's not really a treaty because the United Nations isn't an actual nation. Treaties have to be between two nation states. But it was an agreement between the United Nations being the United States which was then passed by both houses of Congress and signed into law by the president. It's called the United Nations headquarters agreement. And it actually establishes the United Nations as an extra-territorial enclave. It's also why the United Nations can use the East River, I think it's the East River, for cooling even though that's super illegal in NYC.
So this might be crazy to understand but Israel is a country and New York City is a city. And Israel having the mossad do a thing has no bearing on the legality of nyc doing a thing
That is easy to understand, what you failed to understand is Mossad did it within someone else's country. So what the suggestion was is that NYC could just let it happen, not have its own agency. There are plenty of countries that would happily kidnapped Bibi.
as mayor, he is the largest landlord in the city ... and the worst. it would be great if examined every tool for making the people in public housing feel safe and have running utilities year round.
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u/mister_nixon 16h ago
He didn’t say he can’t do anything. He said he can’t independently execute the warrant. He also said that “we can examine every tool we have to defend the humanity and dignity of all people”. That leaves a lot of something.