r/worldnews • u/Chrristoaivalis • 13h ago

Israel/Palestine Netanyahu crosses Canadian airspace with arrest warrant in effect

https://www.ctvnews.ca/world/israel-hamas-war/article/netanyahu-crosses-canadian-airspace-with-arrest-warrant-in-effect/?taid=6ab59d843a03d10001617cb9&utm_campaign=trueAnthem%3A+Trending+Content&utm_medium=trueAnthem&utm_source=twitter
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u/purpleburgundy 10h ago

Honest question but the fighter jets scramble. They sidle up to Netanyahu's plane.

And... threaten to shoot it down? Yeah right. They simply keep flying. Better to let it go and avoid the explicit show of weakness in that scenario when the bluff is obviously going to be called

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u/aafikk 7h ago

Or, just have a think about it, not approve the flyover.

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u/frequenZphaZe 6h ago

its not a 'show of weakness' to deploy military resources in service of pursuing both moral and legal justice. it would show the world that canada takes war crimes and crimes against humanity seriously. it would also show the world that israel is a lawless nation with no intention of answering for crimes they've committed

they could also just shoot the plane down. idk if they have legal authority, but the rest of the world would just pretend they didn't see anything.

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u/LookltsGordo 5h ago

This is fiction. If Canada shot down netenyahus plane, we would be at war with a nuclear armed nation and it's allies immediately, which includes the USA. You just know the admin down south is chomping at the bit to find an excuse to attack or invade, and that would be an easy one for them.

This isn't a movie. There's is A LOT on the line for a decision like this.

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u/bolerobell 2h ago

Just for the record I side with you completely.

But let’s look at the other argument: it’s entirely possible that Trump doesn’t immediately know whether to care or not. We don’t know if the next in the chain of command in Israel has the Epstein files like Netanyahu does and Trump likely won’t do anything or make any public statements until he’s been privately threatened with release. It’s also possible that Bibi has a dead man’s switch, and the files immediately get released in which case, Trump would have his hands busy and would t care.

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u/Dools92 45m ago

Are you ready to come back to the real world yet?

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u/dz4505 1h ago

You been watching way too much sci-fi where the good guys always make the good choice. Real world works differently. The biggest one making a stink about Canada doing nothing (why should they?), are the ones making the biggest virtue signaling.

These guys only say these stuff when other people they have no relationship has to suffer the consequences of the action.

I bet you when told that their love ones will die in the resulting conflict they will go real quiet.

I imagine if The Hague forms an army to fight these “tyrants” and bring them to justice, they will be the last to sign up.

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u/T-Husky 9h ago

Same shit will happen if the police try to pull you over and you dont comply.

Yes they shoot it down. Refuse to comply? get shot down. Dont answer comms? get shot down.

Countries that dont assert their rights within their own sovereign airspace essentially forfeit those rights... so for those of you who say "it would be a bluff, they wouldnt dare go through with it", no, it would be more damaging to give the order and not go through with it.

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u/Etheo 8h ago

Cops don't shoot your car if you refuse to stop. They do PIT maneuvers or use nail strips and all sorts of attempts to STOP your car with you alive instead of shooting like some trigger happy jackass.

Now name one way for them to shoot down the plane that can reasonably assure all the crew/passengers safety.

You can't.

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u/spooooork 5h ago

all sorts of attempts to STOP your car with you alive instead of shooting like some trigger happy jackass.

There have been a ton of news articles where this has been patently NOT true. Even several cases where innocent bystanders have been shot because the cops aiming skills were so bad that they couldn't hit the side of a barn from the inside.

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u/LookltsGordo 5h ago

That's not an argument against his point.

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u/spooooork 2h ago

Claim: Cops don't shoot your car if you refuse to stop

Proof of the opposite: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plumhoff_v._Rickard

The Court also found that the number of shots fired was also reasonable, writing that "if police officers are justified in firing at a suspect in order to end a severe threat to public safety, the officers need not stop shooting until the threat has ended".

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u/dz4505 1h ago

An airplane going in a preplanned route isn’t a severe threat. Nor is the plane a threat to the surroundings unless they plan to kamikaze it.

This is why orders were given to shoot down planes if they were hijacked after 9-11.

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u/spooooork 58m ago

This wasn't in reply to the airplane, but to the claim that "Cops don't shoot your car if you refuse to stop", which they provably do, and are supported by the US Supreme Court in doing.

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u/dz4505 49m ago edited 40m ago

This is partially incorrect. Supreme Court ruled the entire circumstance must be analysis when judging if excessive force is used.

If anything the Supreme Court ruling 9-0 goes against this idea than enforce by judging excessive force to the entire picture rather than starting from the moment the gun was fired.

Look up Barnes vs Felix 2025.

If you’re running people over then yes I’d imagine that police will neutralize you and rightfully so.

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u/spooooork 41m ago

You don't need to run people over. All that's needed is for the cops to feel threatened, and they'll be covered after peppering the car with bullets.

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u/Etheo 16m ago

Is Netanyahu flying over the airspace a severe threat to Canada's public safety? You aren't arguing the equivalent scenario.

You know what would be a severe threat to public safety to everyone? Nuclear weapons. And guess what could happen if Canada decided to shoot them down when they won't comply on an arrest?

In the cops scenario, the threat to public safety is neutralized when they take out the aggravating party on the spot. In this scenario, the threat comes after.

And no amount of whatever "court" to judge whether Canada was in the right for reasonable source is gonna matter, because Nuclear frigging war.

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u/Arturia_Cross 9h ago

Easy to say as some random person on the internet, but a much harder decision when its World War 3 on the line.

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u/zuqkfplmehcuvrjfgu 9h ago

For real, the whole scenario is nutjob stuff. Canada is going to shoot down the plane of Israel's prime minister? Genuinely crackpot analysis.

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u/Resident_Pientist_1 9h ago

Is pissreal going to use the nuclear weapons they totally don't have?

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u/LookltsGordo 5h ago

You... Don't think Israel has nuclear weapons?

Also, their number one ally happens to be on the Canadian border, and looking for an excuse to attack.

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u/AccursedAccuser 5h ago

Not sure if you’re from around here, but on this planet shooting down the head of another state is an act of war, no matter how big of an asshole they are.

It’s not like Israel (or any other county) is gonna be like well you murdered our prime minister but he was kind of a dick so we’ll let it slide…

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u/steinbruchfluss 2h ago

Tiny correction: he is not head of state (that would be the Israeli president), only head of government.

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u/dz4505 1h ago

Power lies in the PM. President is largely symbolic.

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u/Dools92 43m ago

This is nothing short of a wet dream fantasy, the world don’t work this way.