Israeli PM’s route via four ICC member states prompts fresh scrutiny over their alleged breach of international law

cross-posted from: https://literature.cafe/post/35813461

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu flew over Greece, Italy, France and Canada on Thursday on his way to address the UN, despite an International Criminal Court warrant for his arrest.

The ICC issued an arrest warrant for Netanyahu in November 2024, on charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity allegedly committed in Gaza since October 2023.

Netanyahu arrived in the US for a short visit to address the UN General Assembly in New York, where Mayor Zohran Mamdani has said he does not have the authority to arrest the Israeli leader.

  • XeroxCool@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    I was thinking that header image in the liveflightstracker link was AI Slop, then one of us had a stroke in the bottom left. Weather avoidance, geopolitical restrictions, air traffic control reroute, another geopolitical restrictions, and THEIS PERVES ON CONROLL MEFTIGN LIN£AION GARE OFFIANOSI/NE

    Stick with the antipode link and the interactive map to understand the normal curve of a straight line across a sphere represented on a flat map. The liveflightstracker link just mentions a bunch of generic reasons, has no picture to help describe the flat/sphere translation, and adds nothing particularly useful to the route in question. The route takes a J shape where the initial leg is straight, not even slightly curved as it should be. The actual answer likely lies in some combination of standard flight routing and avoiding certain countries.