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Kangaroo court
The International Criminal Court lacks jurisdiction successful Israel (“Unwarranted,” PostOpinion, Orde F. Kittrie, May 1).
If the ICC issues a warrant for the apprehension of Israeli officials (including Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu) connected bogus war-crimes charges, it would not beryllium enforceable. It would, however, complicate United States and Israeli diplomacy. For President Biden, it complicates his failing campaign.
The Israel Defense Forces are justified successful their run to destruct Hamas terrorists anyplace successful Gaza, including Rafah. Officials astatine the ICC are playing into the hands of Hamas by making outrageous and inflammatory claims astir fake warfare crimes, human-rights violations and genocide by Israel.
James Patterson, Washington, DC
Flatiron heyday
The Post’s communicative connected the Flatiron District is inaccurate connected aggregate counts (“Flatline,” April 30).
Flatiron is thriving. Retail vacancies are betwixt 10% and 13%, little than the Manhattan average. Since January, 32 businesses person either opened successful the territory oregon announced they volition beryllium opening soon. Robberies and burglaries are down from past year, by 36% and 64%, respectively.
In March, mean regular pedestrian counts connected the vibrant Flatiron Public Plaza deed a post-pandemic grounds of 67,000. The district’s residential colonisation has grown astir 20% successful the past decade.
The closure of big-box stores, similar those The Post reported connected Sixth Avenue, is simply a nationwide inclination and not a grounds of a declining neighborhood. Just locomotion a mates of blocks eastbound and north, into the Flatiron District, to spot a resilient mixed-use vicinity that remains a hub for hospitality, civilization and businesses of each shapes and sizes.
James Mettham, President, Flatiron NoMad Partnership, Manhattan
A dictator’s dream
To beryllium wholly honest, I consciousness that it’s rather imaginable that the Supreme Court rules that erstwhile President Donald Trump’s immunity claims are morganatic (“Constitutional abyss runs deep,” April 26).
The tribunal definite appears to favour Trump implicit democracy. Why other would it enactment his delays?
Nothing successful our 248-year past suggests a president needs implicit immunity. The Supreme Court is losing its legitimacy, spiraling down a way wherever its rulings volition yet beryllium rejected by the American people.
Richard A. French, Pasadena, Calif.
Brooklyn’s bard
So bittersweet to perceive astir the passing of literate elephantine Paul Auster (“Paul Auster, champion selling writer of ‘New York Trilogy,’ dormant astatine 77,” May 1).
His words painted worlds, stirred emotions and ignited imaginations. Rest successful peace, Paul Auster. Your bequest lives connected done the pages you’ve talented to the world.
Paul Bacon, Hallandale Beach, Fla.
C’mon, Marjorie
I mean, really: Where is Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene going to spell with this (“MTG vows ballot to footwear Mike,” May 2)?
The bottommost enactment is she simply doesn’t person the votes to oust House Speaker Mike Johnson — and she knows it. This is beyond courtroom theatrics. This is childish, immature and conscionable plain stupid.
Greene should look for a face-saving mode retired of the fiasco she has created for herself. This is what happens erstwhile you spot yourself arsenic overmuch much than you truly are. One mode oregon another, MTG’s hubris volition beryllium humbled.
All that Johnson needs bash is enactment his people and hold her out.
Arthur Saginian, Santa Clarita, Calif.
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