Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday held separate meetings with President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris at the White House as Israel is looking to clinch more US support for its genocidal campaign in Gaza.
While meeting with Biden, Netanyahu praised the president for his strong support since October 7 and for backing Israel throughout his 50-year political career. “From a proud Israeli Zionist to a proud Irish American Zionist, I want to thank you for fifty years of public service and fifty years of support for the state of Israel,” Netanyahu said.
After her meeting with Netanyahu, Harris claimed she was concerned with the massive civilian casualties in Gaza but said she would always back Israel.
“I told him that I will always ensure that Israel is able to defend itself, including from Iran and Iran-backed militias such as Hamas and Hezbollah,” Harris said. “From when I was a young girl collecting funds to plant trees for Israel to my time in the United States Senate and now at the White House, I have had an unwavering commitment to the existence of the state of Israel, to its security and to the people of Israel.”
Ahead of the meetings, a senior administration official told reporters that there was “no daylight between the president and vice president” on their position on Israel.
Harris also called for a hostage and ceasefire deal with Hamas, something Netanyahu has been actively sabotaging. US officials said Biden pressed Netanyahu to reach a hostage deal, and the White House claimed that an agreement was closer than ever. However, Reuters reported on Thursday that Israel’s new demands are complicating the talks.
POLITICO reported that while the Israeli delegation is in Washington, Israeli officials are circulating lists among US officials of weapons they want fast-tracked. The report said Israel was “quietly” pushing for faster military aid shipments, but Netanyahu also made the demand during his address to Congress on Wednesday.
“In World War II, as Britain fought on the frontlines of civilization, Winston Churchill appealed to Americans with these famous words: ‘Give us the tools and we’ll finish the job.’ Today, as Israel fights on the frontline of civilization, I too appeal to America: “Give us the tools faster, and we’ll finish the job faster,” Netanyahu said in his address to a cheering Congress.
So which one is "the president" now?
Netanyahu.
No, Bibi is the Overseer of the Plantation known as congress.
Folks, let's cut the malarkey. Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. is only half Irish. He rarely mentions it, but the Biden side of his family is English and French ancestry.
"I have said this before but I shall say it again and again and again! Your boys are not going to be sent to fight in any foreign Wars!" —–Franklin Delano Roosevelt campaigning in Boston, October 30, 1940
"Give us the tools and we'll finish the job." —–Winston Churchill Feb 9, 1941
407,316 Americans ended up dying in World War II.
Only Japan attacked the US.
For absolutely no reason, right?
The victimized USA. Heartbreaking to attack the treacherous Americans when they never did anything to the Japanese people, not even their economy. /s
Reminder:
The ICJ and UNSC 2728 has defined Netanyahu‘s Joint-Criminal-Enterprise as illegal. The ICJ also judged a plausible genocide is happening.
Supporting Genocide makes these politicians liable for war crimes indictments.
They calculate their continuation as hegemon, with veto power and control over all international law and the operators of, in “rules based” order, along with ubiquitous propaganda to shield them forever. They may be right. What entity is going to enforce consequences, at least in their lifetimes?
Are you familiar with the events surrounding the tribunal in 1945-46 in Nuremberg , Germany or the Russell Tribunal against the Vietnam War in 1967?
https://www.russelltribunalonpalestine.com/en/index.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell_Tribunal
What does that have to do with diverting attention from the murderous acts of Israel and shifting blame from an entity already declared apartheid, to Hamas?
World courts, tribunals and global protests have proven insufficient and ineffective. If Hamas didn’t exist, another entity or pretext would have been manufactured to do what they have always planned to do.
Now, every other word is Iran. Of course Iran is not perfect either, but do we need to start blaming them for Israel’s genocide too?
A possible Russell Tribunal regarding GAZA will examine both sides, Israel's war-making and Hamas' fascistoid army, won't it?
Israel is committing genocide. Can you recognize that? Do you understand that it is an apartheid state that has Palestinians under occupation? That Israel itself is responsible for the funding and support of Hamas in order to keep the population under control? That there were preceding years of “mowing the lawn” and a persistent goal of ethnic cleansing? Long term pogroms and terrorism?
If you can’t acknowledge basic reality, you have no business being an arbiter of peace.
How many Palestinian people live freely in Israeli territory and under what conditions?
https://minorityrights.org/communities/palestinians/
Not many.
And what difference does that make to people in Gaza?
Stop apologizing for genocide. You are not antiwar. You are pro Zionist occupation.
Second class.
more third class to be honest.
More justification for their genocidal policies? Because Palestinians live unmolested in the cities of "Israel proper"? Really? Just quit while you're ahead. Wait a minute, you aren't.
How many Jews live unmolested in the Ara world? NONE-they were evicted.
They used to live with Arabs in peace until the Zionist Israelis came.
https://archive.ph/DzpBy
None live freely and all are being brutalized by sadistic, really mad illegal occupiers and the IDF terrorists in uniform. That is fact based public knowledge.
Under the condition that they know their place. Self-determination? Only for Jews.
The criminal US megalomaniac governments have contaminated international institutions, including the UN. They are acting Israeli proxies now.
Trump will be the cherry on the cake if elected.
It doesn’t matter who fronts the uniparty.
Sanctions
Two two-way meetings of criminals on how to wipe Gaza and complete their ethnic cleansing, and get away with it clean in world stage…!
This story with hostages is rather bizarre. Many thousands of Palestinian children were killed by Zionists in their alleged effort to save those hostages. Number of killed Palestinian children is about a hundred times higher than number of the hostages. Many of those hostages, as we know, were killed by Zionists.
Do Hamas fighters tolerate children staying near their combat zone? Please back up your claim with official Hamas figures, otherwise I think you are cynically propagating an emotional plague .
"Do Hamas fighters tolerate children staying near their combat zone?"
And that would make Israel's barbarity justified if they did? That shit gets old. Our state department has Hamas listed as a terrorist organization. Isn't that what is expected of a "terrorist" organization? And shouldn't our "ally", who we have repeatedly claimed our unwavering and ironclad support for, be acting like a democracy with shared values? And yet, the so called "terrorist" organization looks like boy scouts in comparison.
To those who vote others down, best to explain why. Everyone has a right to their own opinions but certainly if you down vote someone, it would be helpful, if you would clarify, your reasons as to why?….!
That's his prerogative Donna. I'd rather not listen to his bullshit to be honest. I know where he's coming from.
Dear Wars,
I consider you to be one of the sanest voices here and I truly consider you a friend and dare I say, a day without your voice here at our good antiwar.com, would be abysmal.
Why thank you Donna. And the feeling is mutual.
I fully agree, but I believe you are asking too much.
They can never clarify because there are no facts to back them up.
Quotes:
James Tobin: "Volatility is a phenomenon in search of a theory."
Friedrich Nietzsche: "There are no facts, only interpretations."
Leo Tolstoy: "There are no facts. There is only our perception of them."
Gustave Flaubert: "There is no truth. There is only perception.”
Whatever you want to call it, it takes common sense to deal with reality.
In USA/NATO democracies are led by “the mad leading the blind”, that is the sad reality. There is no leadership, no one knows right from wrong.
Plato's allegory of the cave explains the media power
of capitalism and imperialism more insightfully.
So you think that the opposing characteristics of 'good and evil' of an action dissolve in war, don't you? In my understanding, that ultimately means the rule of brutal totalitarianism, blood feuds, mafia, fascism, which Germany experienced from 1933 to 1945, for example. It seems to me that in your decadent, arrogant, authoritarian words you practice the methods of a Ku Klux Klan, SS, Cheka, etc.
Do you know how to practice a partisan , guerrilla , or civil war ?
https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/social-sciences/guerrilla-warfare
Good Morning, dear Bernard. Though, better it would be with Peace and more conciliatory attitudes as well.
In addition to writing political commentary, I am also a screenwriter and I do indeed write mostly about war and peace.
Do you know how to align with fascists to become a fascist state, that eventually commits genocide, like its original coconspirator?
ZIONIST RELATIONS WITH NAZI GERMANY
FARIS YAHYA
https://michaelharrison.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Zionist-Relations-with-Nazi-Germany-Faris-Yahya-PSR-Beirut-1978.pdf
As an anti-fascist , I reject any form of cooperation with fascist, fascistoid people, groups, parties, etc., contrary to HAJJ AMIN AL-HUSAYNI . I interpret your posts as a war propagandist and not as an anti-war individual.
You have issues with interpretation.
Israel is not fighting a war, it is perpetrating genocide.
Until you acknowledge power differentials, the history, the elevation of Hamas by Israel to thwart a Palestinian state, you are simply playing the bothsides game. Peace can not happen without recognition of reality through your diversions of pretense that it is very complicated. It is not.
https://www.pcbs.gov.ps/statisticsIndicatorsTables.aspx?lang=en&table_id=708
PS: You probably need a VPN to access a server location in Kuwait.
I think Bernhard has mental health issues.
And Zionists came before the Nazis.
Bernard,
You have a lovely name but, seriously, do you enjoy being an a-hole?!
Also and FYI!
I enjoy waging PEACE!
Doesn't everyone make their own cleaning toilet? I live as a health and environmentally conscious vegan who applies the criteria of a nutritionally medical, wholesome, macrobiotic, Ayurvedic diet (not a pudding vegetarian), and you?
What does that have to do with simple human decency? Maybe eating fried chicken is inhumane to the animal, but you see nothing wrong with the slaughter of women and children and young soldiers?
Are Palestinian people entitled to human rights or not?
Morals = is to know the difference between right and wrong.
Donna, I love your style.
The IDF is not fighting any war, they are brutally killing unarmed people, Hamas is not an organized army, they are the family members of the people the IDF has been killing for decades, they resist to be murdered by IDF scum. Hamas is fighting for basic human rights.
What would you do if you were them?
Definitely no Ku Klux Klan methods!
IDF is trying to rescue hostages.
Did Netanyahu tell you that? The MSM admitted the IDF killed Israeli hostages. Yes, the IDF practiced the Israeli military Hannibal rule.
As a result of the massive bombings with their collateral human damage and their devastation of the infrastructure in Gaza, turning it into a stone desert, I doubt that rescuing the hostages is the goal of the IDF's military operations, because area bombings are outlawed under international law. Confer:
https://ihl-databases.icrc.org/en/customary-ihl/v1/rule13
https://casebook.icrc.org/a_to_z/glossary/indiscriminate-attacks
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aerial_bombardment_and_international_law
https://www.icty.org/en/press/final-report-prosecutor-committee-established-review-nato-bombing-campaign-against-federal
https://www.un.org/en/genocideprevention/war-crimes.shtml
Children live in Gaza. What a very stupid argument. Israel will kill, willingly, hundreds of children to get to one Hamas fighter. The IDF snipers target children specifically, even alone and with no weapons. They shoot people, in general, because they are “bored”. Why are you playing this very cynical game of apologizing for genocide?
And your link is broken. Post the link in its original form so we know what you are selling.
Looks like Bernhard is replacing our troll or one of our trolls. What happened to Jake, does anyone know?
I blocked him a while ago. His inanity and constant parroting of state department propaganda was as useful as a dried dog turd on the sidewalk.
Then why do you respond to my posts in your fecal slang? Do you like to act like an authoritarian xenophobe?
So you are jake?
I guess I might add your new name to block list sockpuppet.
Sorry, you are sending an ambiguous post.
His Plato reply to my post makes me thing he has real mental health issues.
I stopped reading him.
Speaking of trolls, do you know the verse epic by Heinrich Heine?
https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/31305/pg31305-images.html
Closer to our time, a poetic way to describe the McCarthy era and the present.
The IDF is waging a war against unarmed civilians, more than 60% women and children, starving, dehydrated, sick and with no medical care that is a catastrophic genocide to call it an emotional plague is the biggest understatement I know of.
The IDF consists of undisciplined sadistic scum.
Where could Palestinians go to find shelter when the Israeli scum bombs even the tents the only shelter they have?
Back up your coated allegation of Hamas tolerating children in combat zones.
Please provide a list of combat free zones available to Palestinians regardless of child or adult or new born babies.
Where are the combat free zones, do you know of any?
Based on your and other forum participants' responses to my discussion contributions, you claim to be Hamas influencers and slander me personally with regard to my previous contributions to this anti-war forum with infamous allegations that contradict my textual statements in order to instrumentalize the forum for your dubious, horrendous intentions and purposes. As an anarchist, I reject every religiously motivated regime, every authoritarian rule, subjugation and defend freedom, solidarity, humanity, human rights, social justice, etc.
Since when has Hamas been committed to internationally secularly recognized human rights, for example with its initiated suicide attacks on the civilian population and, à la Japanese kamikaze, Shimpu Tokkotai, on the IDF?
Rocket attacks on the Israeli civilian population do not require military organization? Absurd!
Does al-Qur'an excuse all behavior by Hamas and the activities of its members?
Nothing but BS, you make no sense.
You have real problems.
Nothing but BS from you.
War criminals meeting their war criminal buddies, lovely .
I read that Israel is now bombing East Jerusalem, so they have expanded the terror beyond the strip.
“From a proud Israeli Zionist to a proud Irish American Zionist, I want to thank you for fifty years of public service
and fifty years of supportfor the state of Israel,” Netanyahu said.Fixed.
Simplicity, is always best good wars….;-}
While meeting with Biden, on Thursday July 25th, Netanyahu “praised Joe Biden as ‘a proud Irish Zionist’ for his strong support since October 7 and for backing Israel thoughout his 50-year political career.“
In other words, politician Joe Biden has been an Israeli ‘asset’ in Washington DC for a very long time. It is an ‘investment’ that has paid off tremendously for Israel.
The Biden-Harris administration is also giving “full backing“ to Israeli warmongers for their coming war against Lebanon.
You cannot have it both ways: “full backing“ also means “full responsability“.
The Biden-Harris administration is destroying the United Nations of which the United States is a member and a signatory of the UN Charter.
Wars of aggression are outlawed by the UN Charter.
By violating the UN Charter, the US government is encouraging chaos in the world.
What an accomplishment for peace in the world!
https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-811961
https://thecradle.co/articles-id/26109
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/8a51f36e766cb9547c81775faaa424e930222831a02dfae96513ee3412e40243.jpg
I presume at the olympics, which I will be boycotting.
Netanyahu reminds me of Napoleon the Pig in Orwell's Animal Farm.
"All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others"
"The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which."
That is insulting the poor, defenseless pigs.
Well…..It occurs to me that Israel might need a… Ahem: A Time Out.
I enjoy being a useful idiot Israel, for Peace that is. ;-}
From a proud Israeli Zionist to a proud Irish American Zionist, I want to thank you for fifty years of public service and fifty years of support for the state of Israel,” Netanyahu said.
Nothing more to say.
He was assured the support will continue regardless who wins the election. Israel first, US Congress is a house full of useful idiots.
See this article below: "Washington gives Netanyahu ‘full backing’ to expand war on Lebanon: Report"
THIS is why Netanyahu went to Washington.
I can’t wait to hear the outcome of Trump’s meeting with Bibi at Mar-a-Lago today.