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In one of the most shameful displays in Congress’ history, Israeli
Prime Minister delivered a speech to a joint session of Congress on
Wednesday.
The speech was heavy on militarism, racism, and lies so brazen that
even the mainstream American media caught some of them. Netanyahu
paraded one Muslim and one Ethiopian IDF soldier, bragging about how
many Palestinians they killed in a shallow effort to refute the idea
that Israel is a racist, apartheid state.
He lied about Israel targeting Palestinian civilians, which it has
done to an unprecedented degree; about the ratio of civilians to
combatants killed in Gaza; and the death toll in Rafah. These were all obscenities, a display of genocide denial in the halls of Congress on
par with the worst deniers of the Holocaust. Even worse, this denial
was done by the murderer himself, while still committing the heinous
crimes, and the lies were greeted with standing ovations and cheers
from the members of Congress on hand to witness this.
Netanyahu even dug up long-debunked lies about October 7, stories of
babies burned alive, and babies killed while hiding in an attic. These
have been debunked by Israeli sources, but that didn’t stop Netanyahu
from repeating them to a welcoming crowd of Islamophobes and
anti-Palestinian racists in Washington.
As expected, he also claimed the large numbers of protesters outside
his speech were financed by Iran, bolstered by the false and wholly unsubstantiated recent testimony from the U.S. Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines.
Netanyahu’s speech was meant to bolster congressional support for the
genocide in Gaza, and to bring jingoistic, militaristic reinforcement
to the notion that Israel is fighting the front line of America’s
battle against Muslim barbarism. The racism oozed from his every word
and was greeted with overwhelming warmth and appreciation from
Republicans and the Democratic hawks in attendance.
But beyond the bombast, there was little substance to the speech,
which held nothing new, just the same old talking points, falsehoods,
and basic racism. It was, in the end, a reflection of the event
itself: an attempt at grandstanding by the Christian Nationalist
Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, which Democratic leaders, in their
typical cowardice, refused to stand up to.
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https://mondoweiss.net/2024/07/congress-applauded-the-genocide-in-gaza-but-netanyahus-speech-showed-the-political-consensus-on-israel-is-over/
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