Drudge Retort: The Other Side of the News
Monday, July 06, 2026

According to the UN, the loathsome Benjamin Netanyahu is responsible for the deaths of over 75,000 Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank. The International Criminal Court (ICC) at the Hague issued an arrest warrant for him. Similarly, the Istanbul Public Prosecutor announced that a local court issued arrest warrants for Netanyahu and thirty-six other alleged Israeli war criminals. The Israeli PM has threatened to befoul the US again with his presence and his El Al plane will land in IAD Virginia later this week and JFKIA in NYC for UNGA in September. Under the legal principle of "universal jurisdiction," the governors of Virginia and New York, Abigail Spanberger (D) and Kathy Hochul (D), may order their respective state police departments to arrest the international fugitive from justice when he steps foot into either of their jurisdictions. Why is NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani (D) the only elected American leader calling for Netanyahu's rightful arrest?

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Although the US government is not a signatory to the 1998 Rome Statute governing the ICC, based on the Red Notice issued by INTERPOL for Benjamin Netanyahu's arrest, using "universal jurisdiction" Virginia State Police (VSP) or NY State Police (NYSP) investigators would seek a probable cause arrest warrant from a local judge. The local judge would examine the INTERPOL Red Notice and then issue an arrest warrant for Netanyahu. The VSP or NYSP would then detain him for extradition to the Hague as soon as possible.

The legal concept of "universal jurisdiction" is how the Mossad was able to abduct notorious German citizen Adolf Eichmann from Argentina and then try the Nazi in an Israeli court -- a country that did not exist when the horrible war crimes took place in Poland and Europe (1938 " 1945).

The Republican Governor of Alaska, Michael James Dunleavy, could have ordered the Alaska State Police (ASP) to arrest ICC-indicted war criminal Vladimir Putin when he visited on 15 Aug 2025. The ASP would have exercised their arrest warrant for Putin inside Joint Base Elmendorf"Richardson in Anchorage, AK.

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Alleged Israeli war criminals

Indictments are merely allegations. To ensure a fair trial, Benjamin Netanyahu and the other Israeli suspects must all be presumed innocent until they are proven guilty beyond a shadow of a doubt at an international tribunal to be held for them in the Hague at future dates.

Will these two Democratic governors below uphold international law via "universal jurisdiction" or put all the pressure on NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani (D) to do the right thing for America and the world in 2026?


#1 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2026-07-06 10:54 PM | Reply

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