Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu forcefully defended Israel’s military campaign in Gaza during an address on Wednesday to a joint meeting of Congress, in which he praised the Israeli-American alliance and sought to portray the war as a battle between good and evil, civilization and barbarism.
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Netanyahu said the war against Hamas was part of a larger conflict between Iran and the United States, and he said America must stand with Israel to defend their common values.
“My friends, if you remember one thing, one thing from this speech, remember this,” Mr. Netanyahu said. “Our enemies are your enemies. Our fight is your fight. And our victory will be your victory.”He also lavished praise on both President Biden and former President Donald J. Trump.
He largely avoided talking about differences of opinion between himself and President Biden and instead directed anger at antiwar protesters, whom he accused of sympathizing with terrorists and acting as “Iran’s useful idiots.”
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No idea what Harris will do on Israel but hopefully she'll move us away from the alliance which is such a drain on America. Israel is a wealthy country that can fend for itself.
It's silly to say the problem is Netanyahu, the problem is there's no logic to our alliance.
@HumanRightsOrangeUnity2yrs2Y
Israel is a permanent American military base in a resource rich region of the world.
That's the logic.
No, that's the logic of our alliance with Saudi Arabia.
Israel has no resources. It's small and mostly useless.
@GleefulR3f0rmRepublican2yrs2Y
No, the United States absolutely uses Israel. We rely on them for weapons testing, we train our police force over there, and share intelligence with them.
We have 800 military bases scattered across the globe. All are important for maintaining global control.
@GoofyBobolinkSocialist2yrs2Y
To be clear, the fact that they funnel taxpayer money to oligarch defense contractors and train our surveillance state is meant to be a *positive* development?
I am not against Isarel at all. but this feels no different than Zelensky coming to our government for money. Am I wrong for saying this?
@FondMajorityRepublican2yrs2Y
Israel is actually an ally. Whereas Ukraine is not, & i believe it has the reputation of being very corrupt. And Israel is the only democracy in the Middle East. I don’t know much about the history of world leaders speaking b4 congress. It’d be nice to get details on that.
By my count, roughly 100 of the 212 House Democrats and 27 of 51 Senate Democrats (and Dem-caucusing independents) are in the chamber for Netanyahu's speech.
That's around half of each caucus absent.
@RightW1ngKangarooGreen2yrs2Y
Welp, AIPAC owns 90% of them so they can't be too happy at the moment.
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