AIPAC's Seals in Congress Clap for Netanyahu, but Israeli Leader Slammed at Home for Abandoning Hostages
Israel has refused any permanent ceasefire deals with Hamas in exchange for hostages.
While the quislings in the U.S. Knesset, like House Speaker Mike Johnson, clapped for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu like good little boys and girls, the Israeli leader’s speech was criticized at home for — once again — being short on details about “the day after” in Gaza and how Israel will bring home the hostages.
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Yair Lapid, the opposition leader, said in a video after Netanyahu’s address to AIPAC’s Congress, that “Netanyahu had an opportunity to say he accepts the deal and will bring home the hostages before they all die in the tunnels. He didn’t do that,” according to The Times of Israel. “He had an opportunity to present a ‘day-after’ plan that has some sort of connection to reality. He didn’t do that. He had an opportunity to gain all of Congress’s support for the residents of the north and against Hezbollah. He didn’t do that.”
Hamas responded to Netanyahu’s speech: “He [Netanyahu] was the one who thwarted all efforts to end the war and reach a deal to release hostages despite ongoing efforts by mediators from brothers in Egypt and Qatar.”
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(Israel has refused any deal that calls for a permanent ceasefire.)
Israeli forces said Thursday that they recovered five bodies belonging to hostages. The BBC noted that the announcement “means 111 of the 251 people taken hostage are still being held in Gaza, including 39 who the military says are presumed dead.”
Ralph Nader, the former U.S. presidential candidate, posted on X on Tuesday that Netanyahu’s address in front of Congress today will live in infamy as Israel continues its brutal genocide in Gaza.
“He was invited by the fanatical House Speaker Johnson and his sadistic GOP cohorts, supported by half of the Democrats. With his rising genocide using Biden’s unconditional weaponry and many billions of Congressional tax dollars, six federal statutes are being violated. Netanyahu is committing numerous war crimes under international law,” he posted.
Prior to the Hamas attack on 7 October, Netanyahu was facing mounting pressure due to his push for a sweeping judicial overhaul in Israel. He was reportedly told repeatedly that a major attack was looming but brushed off the warnings for months.
The day before Hamas’s attack, The New York Times published a story about Netanyahu’s political struggles in the country.
Netanyahu thinks of himself in Churchillian terms. He would like to be remembered as the leader who faced down the Iran menace, the savior of Israel in the face of forbidding odds for the Jewish people. But the country’s 75th year will be noted for something quite different. Its democracy is dimming; the public has never been more divided. Netanyahu has pushed Israel to the brink, gradually and then suddenly.
He faced corruption charges that could bring a prison sentence, he faced historic weekly protests against the judicial overhaul that some analysts said could explode into a civil war, and his relationship with Washington was souring because of his aggressive, pro-settler stance in the West Bank.