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New York mayor candidate pledges to order arrest of Binyamin Netanyahu if elected
(www.irishtimes.com)
this post was submitted on 13 Sep 2025
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Visiting foreign leaders are issued a diplomatic visa by the State Department, which comes with diplomatic immunity. A mayor of a city doing this would just be a pointless publicity stunt as someone with diplomatic immunity would be released as soon as it came before a Judge.
NYC is the location of the UN so going down this path would erode the effectiveness of the UN at it's primary purpose (diplomacy) more than it already has been.