| ▲ | locallost 5 days ago |
| I doubt there will be actual arrests, but there will be and there are already consequences. I just saw France and Netherlands announced they will obey the warrants, thus Netanyahu can no longer travel there. Presumably the whole of EU is off limits (I am unaware which countries recognize the court). |
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| ▲ | shihab 5 days ago | parent | next [-] |
| EU foreign policy chief said the court's decision should be implemented. Ireland also indicated they would comply with the warrant. |
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| ▲ | immibis 5 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| I expect Germany to declare the opposite. There is a small chance this incident fractures the European Union. |
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| ▲ | spongebobism 4 days ago | parent | next [-] | | Current opposition leader Friedrich Merz, who will probably win the snap elections in February, has even before the court ordered the warrant called for Germany not to obey it. But of course, it's easier to take strong stances when you're not part of that government that has to act on them yet. We'll see. | |
| ▲ | locallost 5 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | I think Germany has already said it will respect the court's decision but disagrees with it. | | |
| ▲ | immibis 4 days ago | parent [-] | | [flagged] | | |
| ▲ | locallost 4 days ago | parent [-] | | Well there are competing forces pulling in different directions. So yes, but... at the same times at least officially, the rules are the rules for Germans. In reality what I learned from them living in Germany is that they will do their best to honor the letter of the law, by effectively doing the opposite. But at least on paper they will follow the rules. |
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| ▲ | csomar 5 days ago | parent | prev [-] | | If Europe (ie Germany) as a whole fails to enforce the warrant, the court is pretty much dissolved. |
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| ▲ | pygar 2 days ago | parent | prev [-] |
| He will never leave Israel again. He is 75 and doesn't have many years ahead of him anyway. At some point soon he will either be voted out or kicked out through regular knessent machinations and spend his remaining years writing his memoris in hebrew only. |
