• tunetardis@lemmy.ca
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    1 month ago

    No, that’s not the plan. This is the plan. In other words, Canada would extradite Netanyahu to The Hague for trial, at which point the US would send in troops to spring him.

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      1 month ago

      On what grounds? He’s not one of the people listed in that article.

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        The subsection (b) specifies this authority shall extend to “Covered United States persons” (defined as “members of the Armed Forces of the United States, elected or appointed officials of the United States Government, and other persons employed by or working on behalf of the United States Government”[8]) and “Covered allied persons” (defined as “military personnel, elected or appointed officials, and other persons employed by or working on behalf of the government of a NATO member country, a major non-NATO ally including Australia, Egypt, Israel, Japan, Argentina, the Republic of Korea, and New Zealand”[9]).