Daijiworld Media Network - Jerusalem

Jerusalem, Dec 4: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday asserted that he would go ahead with his planned visit to New York, brushing aside remarks by incoming mayor Zohran Mamdani, who has vowed to enforce an International Criminal Court (ICC) arrest warrant against him.

“Yes, I’ll come to New York,” Netanyahu affirmed during a virtual interaction at the New York Times’ DealBook forum. When asked if he intended to communicate with Mamdani, he said, “If he changes his mind and says that we have the right to exist, that’ll be a good opening for a conversation.”

Mamdani — set to become New York’s first Muslim and first South Asian mayor — has maintained that he supports Israel’s right to exist, but has questioned its identity as a Jewi

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