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MichMan

(13,414 posts)
Fri Nov 22, 2024, 11:55 AM Nov 22

Dearborn mayor vows to arrest Netanyahu for war crimes if he enters city limits

Surprisingly, no mention of Hamas leader Mohammed Deif who was also issued an arrest warrant by the ICC.

Dearborn Mayor Abdullah H. Hammoud pledged that his city would arrest Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel and his former defense minister, Yoav Gallant, after the International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants for both men for alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity in Gaza.

“Dearborn will arrest Netanyahu & Gallant if they step within Dearborn city limits,” Hammoud said on X. “Other cities should declare the same. Our president may not take action, but city leaders can ensure Netanyahu & other war criminals are not welcome to travel freely across these United States.”

Hammoud, a Democrat who is the city’s first Arab and Muslim mayor, previously called on a ceasefire and arms embargo on Israel. He refused to meet with Donald Trump during the election, and he also declined to endorse Vice President Kamala Harris.

U.S. Rep. Rashida Tlaib, whose district includes Dearborn and Detroit, also voiced support of the ICC’s arrest warrants. “The International Criminal Court’s long overdue decision to issue arrest warrants for Netanyahu and Gallant for war crimes and crimes against humanity signals that the days of the Israeli apartheid government operating with impunity are ending,” Tlaib said in a statement. “Since this genocide began, the United States has provided more than $18 billion in weapons to the Israeli government. The Biden Administration can no longer deny that those same US weapons have been used in countless war crimes. Those American officials facilitating this genocide can no longer deny that their Israeli counterparts have used starvation as a weapon of war against a captive civilian population.”


https://www.metrotimes.com/news/dearborn-mayor-vows-to-arrest-netanyahu-for-war-crimes-if-he-enters-city-limits-37903689
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Autumn

(46,520 posts)
2. If you think Hamas leader Mohammed Deif would ever make it to this country I have a bridge just for you.
Fri Nov 22, 2024, 12:03 PM
Nov 22

Nice to see an American mayor saying he will follow international law and arrest the war criminal Netanyahu.

MichMan

(13,414 posts)
3. If you think either Netanyahu or Gallant will be visiting Dearborn, you can just keep your bridge for yourself
Fri Nov 22, 2024, 12:08 PM
Nov 22

Autumn

(46,520 posts)
5. I know one thing. Gallant won't be visiting America. Netanyahu very likely will, some
Fri Nov 22, 2024, 12:12 PM
Nov 22

politicians seem to prefer him over our own country and leaders.

Traildogbob

(10,072 posts)
4. Never forget
Fri Nov 22, 2024, 12:12 PM
Nov 22

He was a special guest onto the floor of our house, twice, by the party of Bush and Cheney.
And THEY call US the war monger party.
FUCK GQP with a worn out telephone pole that has been climbed with spiked boots for decades.
Then fill the hole with fracking fluid.
Wake the ever loving fuck up America. And fuck the Palestine supporting protesters that were GQP plants.
The Find Out part of your fucking around is about to be kicked in those faces.
Huckabee will damn sure take care of Gaza for you.
And Kushner is flying overhead like a starving buzzard ready to pick every piece of meat off the carcasses to the bone like a billion carrion beetles.
Discard the bones to make way for Trump condos for billionaires like Musk and VarmintSwarmy.
Choke on your free eggs and bacon.
And when bird flu and swine flu eliminate all of that, because of zero regulation's, you all can just eat shit.
There……I told you how I really feel. .

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