• jj4211@lemmy.world
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      5 hours ago

      Perhaps, but there’s the challenge of who gets to declare genocide formally. A city mayor no matter how large probably shouldn’t be able to unilaterally do so when no authority recognized by his nation does so.

      I agree Netanyahu should be arrested, but I just don’t think a city mayor can reasonably unilaterally do so. Certainly from a practical standpoint it’s a nightmare if your own federal government will be at odds over the arrest of a foreign leader.

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        Yeah. I didn’t mean that Mamdani will be able to do it just saying that the genocide convention is a valid legal reason for Netenyahu to be arrested

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      17 hours ago

      The Geneva convention does not authorize arrests of individuals. That’s what the ICC is for, but the US does not recognize the ICC.

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        17 hours ago

        The genocide convention require the countries to do all within their power to stop the genocide. What’s more impactful than arresting thr current genocide enabler

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          17 hours ago

          No, it doesn’t. Countries have no legal obligation to stop something happening outside their borders.

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            9 hours ago

            Imagine being so confident, yet incorrect.

            You could have taken 2 minutes to look up “genocide convention” to find out that it’s not the Geneva Convention.

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            17 hours ago

            You clearly don’t know what you are talking about. The genocide convention (not the geneva convention) that the US signed legally obliges them to act regardless of where the genocide is happening. Your logic is ridiculous because it would mean that any country only has an obligation to stop genocide if it occurs within their own borders.