In fiery speech to Congress, Netanyahu vows 'total victory' in Gaza and denounces U.S. protesters
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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?
Republicans
And Democrats
Not as many
And isn't there an arrest warrant for him? Oh right:
The US doesn't respect the ICC's authority anyway.
If we did we'd have to start handing over politicians lol
Which is not a bad thing at all. Do the crime do the time. Am I right?
You're absolutely right. However, when it comes to American foreign politics, glaring hypocrisy is not a bug, it's a feature.
Only when you're poor and especially when you're black
What's the downside?
Just that they have to decide to hand themselves over and that seems unlikely.
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
Yup, shoulda sat in, then up and left when he started his speech.
They had so many absentees they needed Elon Musk to fill up the benches. Which is when you know it is bad.
Because his crimes against humanity feed the military industrial complex, to which both major parties are subservient.
Ding ding ding
Half of them were fucking clapping. It's surreal.
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.
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.
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.
You're right, and it's horrifying that it continues. I guess I was just voicing a wish that it would end soon.
I also don't trust either party to fix any of these things. It's a sly game their playing, and sadly it's still working -_-
"Incredibly" indeed. I give no credit to his lies.
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.
The speech was certainly written with the Republicans in mind, so i wouldn't be surprising if that was intentional.
What of that is debunked?
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?
Those videos were so crazy. I guess Hamas hides their weapons in the MRI room so that they can find them again just by turning it back on?
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?
No, it did not happen the way he described it. Firstly, there was a baby, not babies. Secondly, the child was not secreted somewhere alone, found after the parents had been shot and then deliberately killed.
Netanyahu is deliberately embellishing the story in order to heighten the outrage over October 7th, and then trying to frame anyone protesting Israel's ethnic cleansing in Gaza as a supporter of what happened. It's disgraceful.
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.
How about salt-crusted?
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 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.
He IS part of that radical wing when it comes to Gaza. What the fuck do you think he means by "total victory"?
— OverSimplified, 202x
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?
You're aware that over 20% of Israel's population is Arab, right?
“First, they came for the Palestinians, but I did not speak out, for I am not Palestinian…”
Yes, I'm aware there is an Arab, Muslim minority in Israel. They are the non Jews I was referring to.
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.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/israel-parliament-attackers-citizenship-rescinded-law-1.6749567
https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20201028-israel-bill-to-revoke-arab-prisoners-citizenship-if-they-receive-pa-aid/
Note that simply receiving aid is grounds for revoking citizenship in the second link, and in the first, the definition of "terror" is almost as vague as "afraid for my life" defenses in police shootings in the US.
Thanks for this, I wasn't aware of that law. It definitely isn't acceptable to have laws based on the ethnicity of a particular subset of the population. Yet another reason why I hope to see Likud leadership at the Hague one day.
From Israeli NGO Adalah: some Key Discriminatory Laws
The Law of Return (1950) grants every Jewish person in the world the right to obtain citizenship in Israel; by contrast, Israel denies the Right of Return to the Palestinian refugees.
The Absentees’ Property Law (1950) defines all Palestinians who were expelled or fled in 1947 as absentees and their property as absentee property. The law was used to confiscate millions of dunams of land later used for Jewish settlement.
The Citizenship and Entry Law (2003) bans family unification in Israel between Israeli Arabs and their spouses from the Palestinian Territories, Iran, Syria, Lebanon or Iraq.
The Benefits for Discharged Soldiers Law (2008) allows all institutions of higher education to consider military service –from which Israeli Arabs are exempt for historical and political reasons –when determining applicants’ eligibility for financial assistance.
The Economic Efficiency Law (2009) gives the government sweeping discretion to designate “National Priority Areas” and to allocate vast resources for their development, which it does so in a way that systematically excludes Arab communities.
The Admissions Committees Law (2011) allows hundreds of small towns built on state land to select applicants based on their “social suitability”. The law is used in practice to filter out Israeli Arabs and members of other marginalized groups.
The Nakba Law (2011) strips state funding from any public entity, including educational institutions, that commemorates the Nakba.
The Expulsion Law (2016) allows for the expulsion of Arab Knesset Members by their peers on ideological grounds, based on majority claims that they incite racism or support terror. (This is not used on MKs who support Israeli settler terrorist attacks)
The Kaminitz Law (2017) increases enforcement and penalization of planning and building offenses. The law has a disparate impact on PCI, many of whom are forced to build illegally due to decades of discrimination by the planning and building system.
The Jewish Nation-State Law (2018) guarantees the ethnic-religious character of Israel as exclusively Jewish, denies the right to self-determination of PCI, and entrenches the privileges enjoyed by Jewish citizens, while simultaneously anchoring systemic inequality, discrimination and racism against Israeli Arabs.
Basic law:
Yes, that one I was aware of. The rest of the law is sensible enough — not much different than what we see in Quebec, for example — but that clause is unacceptable.
Total victory sure sounds like a final solution. I wonder where he borrowed that rhetoric.
It’s crazy to me that this dick bag rolled up into our capital and started shit talking the American citizens. Fuck this murdering bastard.
It's disgusting to me that anyone in our government allowed him to set foot in our capital. This bastard should be arrested and tried for his war crimes. He should be given no time to speak, and he deserves no audience.
Fuck Netanyahu. I hope President Harris leaves him out to dry. Let him figure out how to defend his conservative shithole country from his rightfully furious neighbors.
Well, she happened to have another appointement in her book, so she didn't have to sit right behind him all the time.
Yeah but being anti-genocide is the same as being anti-Semitic now.
Cunt!
Fuck this guy. He's a genocidal maniac
Patriotic Republicans who LOVE America AGREE with this Foreign War Criminal that Americans are Idiots!
Gross. Everything about him is gross. To me, he is the personification of every horrid Jewish stereotype. I can't wait for him to drop dead; he will not be missed.
USA allows and celebrates a guy whose country is terrorising its neighbour to address Congress shortly after allowing another guy (Zelensky) whose country is being terrorised by its neighbour to address Congress.
Right before they let him take to the podium, they should have read the names of the hundreds of UN employees his
armybandits have killed so far. As a "quick" placeholder for all the innocent victims of this war.wow, what a huge piece of shit this guy is.
Obligatory fuck this guy
So when do we slam him back?
Since when is giving money and weapons to kill innocent people called ‘slamming’? Because that’s the only thing we do to Israel.
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Total victory! A final solution to the Gaza problem!
Gosh. I hope I never get denounced. That sounds horrible. I don't think I'd ever come back from that.
Should probably steer clear of the Civ games then.
Washington has denounced you
I thought the same shit immediately.
In civ 5 I think I always had the biggest problem with the Aztec ai. That fucker hates you if you're nice and hates you if you're aggressive too.
I think it was Montezuma it's been a long time.
It's great when their inevitable betrayal fails and he grovels like a worm for the rest of the game.
if you are in the USA, make sure to not denounce a cop in the name of Jebus... apparently that is an instant invite to 3 bullets to the face
Maybe he should go home. Our protests have paved the road to change. If he doesn't like it, he doesn't need our protection in the first place, especially for genocide.
Nah, the Hague seems like a better destination for him.
How well does he think we react to people attacking our fellow citizens? I may hate my siblings but God help anyone that attacks them.
We start completely unrelated decade long wars....apparently.
Well that can't be good.
Fuck that guy and send his ass to ass to Alabama to break rocks.
As a proud American this guy and AIPAC need to GTFO of my country.
Good. We are not reliable anymore. Too wishy washy