UN delegates walk out in protest as Netanyahu takes the stage
UN delegates walk out in protest as Netanyahu takes the stage
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Who stayed?
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Right? It's so frustrating that there's no media outlet containing a clear list. It's such an easy thing to do for journalists and they can't be arsed to do the basics of their job. All I could find out so far is that UK and US stayed
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Arrest him, there's an ICC warrant out for him. Performative gestures don't have any impact in an uncivil setting.
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Don't sit there and clap you dickheads, walk out with them.
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I wasn't sure if they were clapping for him or the people that walked out. If it was for him, you'd think they were meeting a celebrity or somethin. Just another thing in the really weird behavior pile. Treating politicians like celebrities or singers just doesn't make sense.
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I'm pretty sure they are applauding the ones walking out. The decision to sit is not necessarily a message of support to Netanyahu, but a product of national policy. The Norwegian foreign minister was among the people who sat, in spite of being outspoken pro Palestine.
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It could be regular conference etiquette. Every conference I have been to with speakers have as applause as the speaker takes the stage.
But I choose to believe they are congratulating those with a spine who walk out while a he talks.
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Fuck that nazi. Her belongs in grave.
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he has an active arrest warrent why isn't he being arrested the second he stepped foot on soil?
This is in New York. The US has never been part of the Rome Statute, which is the treaty that established the International Criminal Court.
Every American leader since Clinton has been too cowardly to commit to prosecuting war criminals. Maybe not too surprising since there's a strong argument to be made that they have all been war criminals themselves.
What's new with Trump is that he's actively attacking the ICC, but America has always been a safe haven for war criminals. "Nazi, Schmazi!" says Wernher von Braun.
Interesting how that's where the UN is.
That said, hasn't Mamdani promised to arrest Netanjahu if he wins the Mayoral race?
isn't the un building "international soil" or something?
It would require a constitutional amendment apparently, and that's not happening.
Because that stuff doesn't matter to someone at his level.
The US is not a signatory to the rome statute and does not participate in the ICC so the warrant means nothing.