The plane carrying Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to Florida for talks with U.S. President Donald Trump passed through the airspace of three countries that are parties to the International Criminal Court, despite an active ICC arrest warrant against the Israeli leader.
Flight tracking data from FlightRadar24 showed Netanyahu’s aircraft, known as “Wings of Zion,” crossed the airspace of Greece, Italy and France before reaching the Atlantic Ocean.
All three countries are signatories to the Rome Statute, which obliges member states to cooperate with ICC arrest warrants.
Sadly I don’t see what they could have done. I don’t think international law would have allowed them to intercept the plane even if they had wanted to. It would have been a very interesting situation tho if the plane had a problem and would have been forced to make an emergency landing in one of the three countries.
They had no problem doing it when they thought Edward Snowden might be on board.
This is key. And it shows all along the rules are meant for peasants like us.
Not for the ruling class.
That’s true. What are they supposed to do, shoot them down? Scramble some jets to harass on their way through? Put on the flashers and get the pilot to pull over?
This is a very funny mental image and I wish they had