Benjamin Netanyahu brushes off fears of ICC arrest throughout abroad journey

“You travel internationally. God forbid you had a medical emergency, and you need to land, and you’re about to land in a country that recognizes the ICC – it could complicate things. Do you worry about that?” Hannity requested.

“Yeah, I think about it. We have special forces. You know, I served with them for five years… let’s give them a new task,” Netanyahu responded.

“It’s the corruption of the international system. It’s an unelected bureaucracy that sits in The Hague that could arrest American soldiers because you don’t recognize this corrupt body any more than we do,” he added.

“They could say that the president of the US is a war criminal, that American soldiers valiantly fight next to us, shoulder-to-shoulder against the tyranny in Tehran, that they’re war criminals – they could pick them up,” he mentioned.

“It was one of the best meetings that we’ve had,” Netanyahu mentioned.

“We have a common commitment. We don’t want to see this fanatic regime in Tehran have nuclear weapons to threaten every American, and to threaten the peace of the world, and to threaten the existence of Israel,” he added.

Hannity then requested in regards to the Iran deal and if Netanyahu believes there are competing factions inside Iran’s management, together with if there are “moderates that would like a deal.”

“Well, I’m skeptical about the deal. And I say it openly. But the only way it would be achieved is if Iran understood these various factions there,” the prime minister responded.

“I think they’re not ideological factions as much as they differ on the assessment of how tough we are. That’s it. You know, those who think that the president is very tough, and they should, you know, they say, let’s not confront this guy,” he added.

The two additionally mentioned why Iran has indirectly focused Israel over latest weeks regardless of US Central Command (CENTCOM) hitting Iranian targets and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps launching missiles and drones in direction of US and US-aligned amenities throughout the Gulf area.

“They should know that if we are attacked, we’ll respond with terrific force,” Netanyahu mentioned, including that he believes for this reason Iran has been hesitant to launch assaults straight in direction of Israel.

The regime is “attacking everybody in sight. It’s attacking Saudi Arabia. It’s attacking Kuwait. It’s attacking Bahrain. It’s attacking the UAE and others,” he mentioned.

“It murdered and maimed tens of thousands of its own citizens. This is what this regime in Iran does today when it doesn’t have nuclear weapons. Now imagine what they will do to the world if they had nuclear weapons,” the prime minister acknowledged.

Mamdani is a “hate-spewing elected official who is pitting one group of New Yorkers against the others. He’s turning them against New York Jews,” Netanyahu mentioned.

“It had a prosecutor who issued arrest warrants against me and our former defense minister [Yoav Gallant] as war criminals, supposedly for starvation, starving the people of Gaza. We gave a million tons of food for them,” Netanyahu mentioned.