Ro Khanna Calls for the Arrest of Netanyahu and Putin: ‘You Can’t Just Kill Women and Children’

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Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) called for President Donald Trump to arrest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Russian President Vladimir Putin if either were to set foot on U.S. soil, telling MeidasTouch on Friday, “You can’t just kill women and children.”

Khanna’s comments come after New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani released a statement Tuesday acknowledging that although he doesn’t have the authority to arrest Netanyahu himself — despite vowing to do so during his mayoral campaign — the federal government does. He urged Washington to enforce the International Criminal Court’s warrant and arrest Netanyahu during his expected September visit to New York for the United Nations General Assembly.

Asked for his thoughts on Mamdani, Khanna told MeidasTouch’s Pablo Manríquez, “He doesn’t have the authority, but let me be clear — the American president should arrest Netanyahu or Putin in accordance with international law. Full stop. America needs to cooperate with the ICC. It’s a matter of human rights, and it’s a matter of a rules-based international order.”

“What are the chances of Trump actually doing that, though?” Manríquez questioned. “He’s not exactly a law-and-order president.”

“He’s not a law-and-order president, and he doesn’t really care about human rights or international law,” Khanna declared. “It’s embarrassing to the United States and to the world community… It’s simple international law.”

“Isn’t it, I guess, like a golden opportunity for Trump after Netanyahu kinda duped him into getting into this quagmire of an endless war [with Iran]?” surmised MeidasTouch.

Khanna said:

Well, there’d be some accountability. I mean, Netanyahu’s defying him. Netanyahu is continuing to bomb in Lebanon even though Trump is saying, “Stop it so I can end the war.” But this is about accountability. You can’t just kill women and children, have an ICC arrest warrant, and then walk into the United States of America and think nothing is gonna happen to you. If you come to our jurisdiction, America is a country that’s gonna enforce international law.

Watch above, via Meidas Touch.

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