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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Wednesday that he travels with Israeli \u201cspecial forces\u201d in the event that he is arrested abroad for his charges by the International Criminal Court (ICC) \u2014 as he vowed to travel to New York City for the UN General Assembly meeting in September.<\/p>\n

In an interview with Fox<\/em>, Sean Hannity expressed concern that Netanyahu may face arrest in a country that is party to the ICC in the case that his plane needs to make an emergency landing. \u201cGod forbid you had a medical emergency and you had to land, and you had to land in a country that recognizes the ICC,\u201d Hannity said. \u201cDo you worry about that?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI think about it,\u201d Netanyahu said. \u201cWe have special forces around. I served with them for five years,\u201d he said, referring to his time serving in the Israeli military\u2019s elite Seyeret Matkal unit.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe IDF is pretty tough,\u201d Hannity said.<\/p>\n

\u201cLet\u2019s give them a new task,\u201d Netanyahu said. <\/p>\n

There are 125 countries party to the ICC\u2019s founding statute, including much of Europe, South and Central America, and Africa, as well as Canada. Not all of these countries would necessarily arrest Netanyahu if he were to make an emergency landing, however, and some critics have noted that member states have allowed Netanyahu to fly over their airspace unimpeded. <\/p>\n

Several European countries have vowed to arrest him if he steps foot in their territory. Last year, flight data showed that his plane took a route that seemed tailored to avoiding entering the airspace of several European countries like Spain and Ireland.<\/p>\n

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Netanyahu\u2019s comment seems to suggest that Israeli forces would somehow protect Netanyahu in a foreign country if their law enforcement officers tried to arrest him. <\/p>\n

This could, theoretically, include his travel within the U.S., though the U.S. is not party to the ICC. The prime minister said that he is not deterred by New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani\u2019s recent remarks calling on the U.S. to join the ICC and arrest him.<\/p>\n

Netanyahu said that he is going to New York to \u201cspeak the truth\u201d in front of the United Nations. He criticized Mamdani for supposedly \u201cfomenting hate\u201d \u2014 though a poll this month found that Mamdani is actually more popular among Jewish adults than Netanyahu.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, a large proportion of Americans agree that the U.S. should carry out the ICC warrant against Netanyahu. A poll by The Economist<\/em>\/YouGov this week found that 49 percent of Americans back Netanyahu\u2019s arrest \u2014 a 22 point margin over those who don\u2019t. Similar proportions believe that Netanyahu has committed war crimes, and that Israel is committing genocide, the poll found.<\/p>\n

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