After a successful election campaign, Conservative Christian Democrats (CDU) leader Frederick Merz stood in front of journalists at his party headquarters in Berlin in high souls. Merz prefers to become the new Chancellor, perhaps with his coalition partner the center-left social democrats (SPD).
The 69 -year -old said that he had received several congratulations during Sunday evening and night. One of the well -wishers was Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Merz related that both of them interacted on a lenggie telephone and said that Netanyahu had called him. And then Merz dropped a sentence, causing a lot of movement in German politics.
“I have promised him that we will find ways and means for him to visit Germany and so to be able to leave again with a handhout stag arrested in Germany,” said Mars. ” “I think it is a complete absurd idea that an Israeli Prime Minister cannot visit the Federal Republic of Germany.”
Court arrest warrant should be implemented
Bundestag was the representative of other political parties, outrad. In November last year, the International Criminal Court in Hague, Netherlands issued the warrant for Netanyahu and former Israeli Defense Minister Yo Galant.
The ICC concluded that the Gaza strip complicated crimes against humanity and war crimes. An arrest warrant, which was released for Mohammad Def, is classified as a terrorist organization by the US, European Union and Germany, one of the Palestinian terrorist organization Hamas. Later Def was killed in an Israeli air strike during a military attack on Gaza.
The SPD is currently preparing to enter the coalition talks with the leadership of CDU and its sister party, Christian Socialist Union (CSU) and Merz. “We respect its procedures and the decisions of the ETS organ. This applies without exception,” SPD Foreign Policy Specialist Nills Schmid said about the international criminal court.
However, Schmid told Roots For the clever diplomacy of the news agency, the government “needs to find a close ways and means for maintenance with the Government of Israel in future.” It seems that meetings with Netanyahu will have to take place elsewhere, not in Germany.
Germany is one of the 125 ICC signature states
Germany is one of the biggest supporters of the ICC, which started its work in July 2002 and has 125 member states. However, global powers discover because America or Russia are not among them. Nor is Israel.
One important thing about the current case against Netanyahu is that there is no possibility of executing arrest warrants in the court. However, its member states, including Germany, are formally obliged to arrest the desired person if they are in their area. So if Netanyahu had to come to Germany, he would have to arrest. Merz left open “methods and meaning” could be to avoid the discovery of arrest.
In any case, Netanyahu once again used a call with Merz to clarify his idea about the situation. The Israeli government announced that Merz was invited by the International Criminal Court to classify the Prime Minister as a war criminal.
In recent months, the outgoing German government, which is cool in the office, tried to sideline the sensitive issue. After the warrant was issued in November, a German government spokesperson said: “On one hand, the International Criminal Court is important, which we support a lot. And on the other, there is a historical responsibility. Arrest in Germany on this basis.
Netanyahu’s last visit to Berlin was two years ago
During the War period in Gaza, the German government has consistently expressed staunch support for Israeli, including arms exports in Word and Deed. Because of its history, Germany has rapidly expressed that the unexpected support for Israel is part of the “cause of the state”, although this political theory has not been done by law.
Does this apply to the concerned Israeli chief of the government? In any case, the government led by SPD’s Olaf Sholaz was blindly pleased that Netanyahu did not have a journey to Germany. In fact, the last time the Prime Minister of Israel attacked Israel in March 2023 for political talks in Berlin, six months before Hamas on 7 October.
Along with about ten other countries, Germany holds meetings with government consultation with Israel, ie the entire cabinet of both sides. The objective of the meetings is to highlight special bilateral relations. The first search meeting was in 2008 under the then Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU) in Jerusalem, and the last was in October 2018.
In his blog, Kai Ambos, an international law expert at the University of Gottingen, said that the government has no discretionary powers, Kotanyahu should come to Germany. For example, German judiciary and authorities are obliged to move a person on warrant. This is a case for the judiciary, not for politics.
“If the Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu really visited Germany, it would not only be provocative – the conflict with the ICC, but it will do so in the domestic separation of power. It is going to arrest Netanyahu for the arrest of Netanyahu – both federal and state levels – arrest and transfer process will have to intervene on a large scale and in this way, there would be a continuing in the independence of the judiciary.
It is unlikely that Merz did Mispook. Even during the election campaign, the CDU leader repeatedly emphasized that the Israeli Prime Minister would not be arrested in Germany if he became a Chancellor. Hungary Prime Minister Victor Orban, who created a point of inviting Netanyahu to Budapest after the arrest warrant was issued in November last year, has made a similar statement.
This article was original in German.
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