Mamdanis Uganda homeland honors Netanyahus brother with monumental tribute

This is monumentally awkward.A new bronze statue of Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s fallen commando brother was unveiled earlier this month in Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s native Uganda — cementing the lovefest between the African country and the stridently pro-Palestine mayor’s favorite foe.  The monument to Yonatan “Yoni” Netanyahu, marked 50 years since the famed “Raid on Entebbe,” or Operation Thunderbolt, Israel’s daring rescue of hostages aboard an Air France plane hijacked on June 27, 1976 by Islamic terrorists at Entebbe Airport. The hijackers diverted the Paris-bound flight from Tel Aviv with 246 passengers to Uganda, then headed by Israel-hating dictator Idi Amin.The hijackers demanded $5 million and the release of dozens of Palestinian terrorists.Israel’s bold mission – which was made into a Hollywood movie in 1977 – was led by Bibi’s older brother, a lieutenant colonel, and saved 102 out of 106 hostages.

The only one military loss was Yoni, who was shot and killed by a Ugandan sniper on July 4, 1976.The statue of Yoni was unveiled Aug.1 at the Old Entebbe Terminal during a ceremony attended by several Ugandan military bigwigs, “framing the occasion as a testament to the enduring security partnership, mutual trust, and diplomatic reconciliation between Uganda and Israel,” according to The Kampala Post.Mamdani, who was born in the eastern African nation, holds dual US and Ugandan citizenship, and moved to the US at age 7 after being raised in South Africa.He’s come under fire for his repeated vow to arrest the Israeli PM when he’s in New York, and issued a reckless video vilifying Netanyahu and calling him a “war criminal.” “The Mamdani family must be plotzing,” joked one “X” user.“I think we call it poetic justice.

I have no doubt this makes the mayor lose sleep, and he hates every moment of it.Too bad,” quipped Dov Hikind, former Brooklyn Democratic assemblyman and founder of Americans Against...