Updated at 5:19 pm Eastern Time on July 22, 2024
On Monday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrived in the US, where he is scheduled to address a joint session of Congress.
Netanyahu’s visit comes amid political turmoil in the US as President Biden announced on Sunday that he was dropping out of the presidential race and endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris.
Biden was supposed to host Netanyahu at the White House on Tuesday, but an Israeli source told The Times of Israel that the meeting might not happen because the president is still sick with COVID-19.
Netanyahu’s visit comes as he has been sabotaging the chances of reaching a ceasefire and hostage deal with Hamas, a fact widely acknowledged by Israeli officials and media outlets. Even the Israeli security and military establishment has been pushing for Netanyahu to agree to a deal.
While the US claims it has been pushing for a ceasefire, the Biden administration has refused to condemn Netanyahu’s actions and continues to provide full-throated support for the genocidal war on Gaza.
Before departing Israel, Netanyahu said Israel would be a strong ally of the US, regardless of who is in charge of Washington. “I will tell my friends on both sides of the aisle that regardless who the American people choose as their next president, Israel remains America’s indispensable and strong ally in the Middle East,” he said.
“In this time of war and uncertainty, it’s important that Israel’s enemies know that America and Israel stand together today, tomorrow, and always,” Netanyahu added.
Also on Monday, Israel ramped up attacks on the southern Gaza city Khan Younis, slaughtering at least 70 Palestinians.
Will those Federal Officials and politicians organizing/applauding this trip be eventually tried for supporting Apartheid, etc. as per the ICJ advisory opinion last Friday ? Will they also have their assets seized to pay reparations for damages caused ?
These individuals can now be sued in jurisdictions all over the world.
I hope you are correct and they rot in a prison for traitors.
Better to have their assets seized to help pay for reparations as per UNR 194 and ICJ AO (2004), UNSC 2333, and now ICJ AO (2024)
Lock him up.
At a minimum.
At a maximum. đ
"Never Again" tell me we care about anything good.
You had something to hide
Should have hidden it, shouldn't you?
Now you're not satisfied
With what you're being put through
Never again
Is what you swore
The time before
Never again
Is what you swore
The time before
"Before departing Israel, Netanyahu said Israel would be a strong ally of the US, regardless of who is in charge of Washington. â… Israel remains Americaâs indispensable and strong ally in the Middle East.â
I'm pretty sure you don't get to say you're indispensable– that's for the American people to say, and right now Israel is a dying and toxic liability. US voters need to make our elected officials- up to and especially including the President- painfully aware that their careers may well hinge on their support or condemnation of that poisonous golem of a nation.
The President of the United Estates has returned and with him, a bucket full of Cod and Salmon to see his seals clap on live TV.
WE are the largest state of Israel. Lock, stock and barrel. Our "representatives", save just a few, are amoral stooges.
Much like California for the rest of U.S.
Probably too much to hope for that he'll be roundly booed in Congress: I'm sure names will be taken of anyone who fails to show sufficient adulation.
Johnson already threatened dissenters with criminal charges. Let's see how many of the Dems have the stones to repeat what they've been saying since Oct 7
I am certainly not going to watch this live shitshow…!
How about you?
Bernie Sanders has said he does not plan to be there. A very few others as well. The rest are morally bankrupt cowards.
Rep Thomas Massie will be there. He was told that his dead wife was only the start. She died of a still undisclosed within days of Massie spilling the beans on AIPAC and the Quisling Republicans
He said his wife was ill for a long time.
March 2, 2015: The last time Benjamin Netanyahu spoke to the joint House of Congress in Washington, he got 28 standing ovations in 47 minutes – there was hardly time for the audience to sit down between them. (by Kevin Conndlly, BBC MIDDLE EAST)
Someone has to put lots of glue on their chairs…!
Congress should be so proud, that a War Criminal, A Monster, a Coward who drops bombs on unarmed human beings, is going to address them. Members of Congress who attend, need to be voted OUT! For Biden or Harris to meet with this Mass Murderer, War Criminal, need to be called out as Complicit of sponsoring War Crimes. Stop voting for these MONSTERS in Congress!
~William Blum
Yes. Yet quite calling elected servants leaders.
I am certain he comes with a begging bowl in hand.
Actually, it would be the members of congress with the "begging bowls". 'Look at me Bibi, I'm standing and cheering your genocide so please tell AIPAC that I'm loyal'.
That is it. Totally.
Will someone just shoot the f*cker?
Israel is an antichrist nation. It's leaders have always served Satan and continue to this day.
Will Lib Loon Rosa Delauro (K-CA) kiss Satanyahu's hand like she did Ziolensky's
Correction: War criminal arrives in capitol to receive expressions of adulation and fealty from his puppet(s).
The best decision Biden made (from outside pressure!) in his entire political career…!
He is now byedone…!
Of course, without US, Israel would be a lost tribe Mr. crime minister…!
Our Republic needs to start a new chapter, invite The Federation of Russia President Putin to meet the incoming President of The USA at The White House, secondly both chambers likewise should extend the invitation for him to address both houses of congress. Do the same for President Xi.
Netanyahu: Israel remains Americaâs indispensable and strong ally in the Middle East,â he said.
A mother to his child: Look child what an magnificent and indispensable ally we have.
The child to his mother: but motheer, he is not an ally, he is a leech!
Netanyahu is in conquered territory.
Since January 2010, when the US Supreme Court ruled that âmoney is speechâ and that any political action committee (PAC) can spend as much as it can in politics, money and tons of money have become the deciding factor in American presidential elections.
Regarding the influence of Israel in US elections, it would appear that warmongering zionists have completely cornered the political market and that only pro Israel candidates are de facto allowed to run and win presidential elections.
Biden, Harris, Trump, Vance are all in the same camp.
One who could have been outside the camp, independent candidate Robert Kennedy Jr., lined himself with Netanyahu and lost half of his followings.
Is the current American republic a democracy or a plutocratic empire?
https://mondoweiss.net/2024/07/looking-at-kamala-harriss-record-on-israel/
RFK Jr spoke against ISR earlier this year. Within 24 hrs the Kosher News Networks (meaning all of them) featured stories linking him with Epshteen's Lolita Island. The following day RFK Jr did a 180 and pledged fealty to ISR and denied their war crimes. Now THAT'S a cohencidence
Netanyahoo will now take the record away from Winston Churchill for most addresses delivered to a joint session of the US congress:
Churchill (3): 1941, 1943, 1952
Netanyahu (4): 1996, 2011, 2015, 2024
"Netanyahoo will now take the record away from Winston Churchill for most addresses delivered to a joint session of the US congress"
I guess the criteria for addressing a joint session of Congress must be that you be a mass murderer.
There was a movie called Mr Smith Goes To Washington. There should be a movie called Mr Netanyahu Goes To Washington. It would be about the lies he's telling about the genocidal war in Gaza and using chemical weapons in Lebanon and about how AIPAC gets politicians of both parties to give Israel needless, endless military and economic aid to Israel.
How about the ICC arresting order?