This guy just walked into the capitol of the United States and criticized the American people for exercising their first amendment right. The audacity.
Why are we allowing this man to address Congress? And why did anyone show up?
And isn’t there an arrest warrant for him? Oh right:
Netanyahu’s visit comes two months after the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, Karim Khan, announced he was seeking an arrest warrant for Netanyahu.
Right. Not just that, USA is allowed to invade the Netherlands, where The Hague is located, to protect American officials and military personnel from prosecution or rescue them from custody.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Service-Members%27_Protection_Act
over a hundred Democrat congresspeople boycotted the speech. The republicans had their staff sit in to make the crowd look full
Because his crimes against humanity feed the military industrial complex, to which both major parties are subservient.
Netanyahu can get fucked. Like full stop. I have zero problem with any Jewish people who aren’t engaged in genocide. Love you guys. But those that are can get fucked from top to bottom. And he is.
And yet again we have congress members clapping like trained seals to debunked Israel propaganda and the characterization of anti-war protesters being in favor of the killing of civilians.
“My friends, defeating our brutal enemies requires courage and clarity. Clarity begins by knowing the difference between good an evil. Yet, incredibly, many anti-Israel protesters choose to stand with evil. They stand with Hamas. They stand with rapists and murderers. They stand with people who came into the kibbutzim – into a home – the parents hid the children, the two babies, in a secret attic. They murdered the families – the parents. They found the secret attic and then they murdered the babies. These protesters stand with them; they should be ashamed of themselves.”
*Thunderous applause, standing ovation
https://youtu.be/Kwi0uD2QlKw?t=5589
This is 2003 Iraq War levels of state-approved disinformation. I feel nauseated.
It’s must be like one long nightmare for Palestinians. It’s akin to the Great Tribulation, and the politicians who claim to believe in such things are way too happy supporting Israel. I cannot imagine the US standing much longer, not after this and everything else this country has done to the world. It has to end.
Oh honey, the USA has been committing genocide for hundreds of years. This visit is a return to form, not some sudden heel turn.
- a near-total genocide of Native American populations
- a near-total genocide of the Native Hawaiian people (90% population loss following colonization)
- eugenics programs that inspired Hitler (literally not even a joke. This is history.)
- using black folks for medical experimentation without their consent (Tuskegee, etc)
- creating terrorists out of American citizens using the CIA
- constant ongoing state sponsored violence against minorities and the disabled
- 6 million excess deaths caused by the occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan
- millions of deaths in Cuba directly caused by American economic terrorism
- egregious human rights abuses. Read up on how Uyghurs in Xinjiang are treated. Really weird how when it happens to American working-class citizens, it’s suddenly not a human rights abuse anymore.
I was told here that voting blue would fix it all. Republicans brought this monster in, will the victorious DNC do anything about it after November besides… hold their applause?
I think we all know the answer. History will remember them as collaborators.
In writing he comes off an awful lot like Trump to me, if Trump were more coherent anyway.
But maybe it’s because he just sounds like a Republican.
Immediately after October 7th, there were various sensational and outlandish claims made by Israeli officials that babies were beheaded, put into ovens, murdered in their nurseries, and generally singled out and made to suffer with intentional violence. Since then, no evidence whatsoever has been provided to substantiate these claims and the majority of them have been dropped completely.
UN records indicate that one baby did actually die along with her family after Hamas fighters opened fire into a safe room in Kibbutz Be’eri (page 10), but there were no recorded cases where multiple babies were intentionally targeted and killed in the way that Netanyahu describes.
None of this is to diminish the atrocities that were committed on October 7th, but it is telling that Israel and Netanyahu in particular seem dead set on making the events on that day seem as barbaric as possible in order to somehow justify the large-scale massacring of men, women, and children that is happening in Gaza.
Also a classic:
Claiming a literal kindergarten attendance chart as a “terrorist check-in record”.
What else is Israel lying about if they are using such brazen propaganda?
He is not specifically saying such things, what he says did happen. Some shit got debunked, but not what he says here. So… why call it debunked?
Maybe start with “anti-Israel protesters choose to stand with evil.” He’s taking about people protesting mass murder of civilians by Israel. Fuck that guy with a rotten pineapple.
No you don’t want the pineapple to be rotten, that would make it softer and marginally less painful.
Israel is not going to stop until all the territory of British Mandate Palestine is theirs, and all non Jews are removed from it, one way or another. As an American, it’s absolutely infuriating that my government is so committed to helping them do it.
He specifically said in this speech that Israel would not resettle Gaza. It’s maybe the first time we’ve seen him directly oppose the radical wing of his government that has advocated for it.
Well, Israel has proven that they are willing to build settlements in areas they are not supposed to, so forgive me if I don’t take him at his word. But, maybe Israel is willing to give up that narrow strip of land, if they can have the rest of Mandatory Palestine. I’d believe that.
He specifically said in this speech that Israel would not resettle Gaza
He was lying. That’s like breathing to fascists anywhere in the world, but especially the ones in Israel. If you like podcasts, I recommend you check out Bad Hasbara for hundreds of clear examples of this.
It’s maybe the first time we’ve seen him directly oppose the radical wing of his government that has advocated for it.
He IS part of that radical wing when it comes to Gaza. What the fuck do you think he means by “total victory”?
He specifically said in this speech that Israel would not resettle Gaza.
And you believed him?
I believe it was a politically risky statement for him to make explicitly.
If he alienates his Right Wing, they could dismantle the government and force elections at will. In the past he has used vague statements or diversions to avoid making public statements that could pose political risks to him. No one was demanding an answer on the issue (and he left out plenty of issues that US lawmakers HAVE demanded to know about).
The better question is: Why would he take the risk of saying it at all?
Israel is not going to stop until all the territory of British Mandate Palestine is theirs, and all non Jews are removed from it, one way or another.
You’re aware that over 20% of Israel’s population is Arab, right?
Yes and members of the Knesset have proposed stripping them all of citizenship and deporting them. There’s many Jim Crow style laws on the books that discriminate against them, so using them as a prop to show Israel being moral somehow is stupid.
Do you have a source for that? I’m not aware of it and don’t want to be unknowingly defending them if that’s the case.
