Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pledged in a scathing speech to Congress to achieve “total victory” against Hamas and criticized American opponents of the war in Gaza as “idiots.”

This guy just walked into the capitol of the United States and criticized the American people for exercising their first amendment right. The audacity.

  • shalafi@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1902·
    5 months ago

    Why are we allowing this man to address Congress? And why did anyone show up?

  • aleph@lemm.eeEnglish
    1003·
    5 months ago

    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.

    • Waveform@lemmy.world
      301·
      5 months ago

      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.

      • SoJB@lemmy.mlEnglish
        338·
        5 months ago

        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.

        • Waveform@lemmy.world
          102·
          5 months ago

          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 -_-

      • aleph@lemm.eeEnglish
        443·
        5 months ago

        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.

          • alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml
            14·
            5 months ago

            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?

        • Eheran@lemmy.world
          312·
          5 months ago

          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?

          • aleph@lemm.eeEnglish
            102·
            5 months ago

            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.

  • razorwiregoatlick@lemmy.world
    671·
    5 months ago

    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.

    • PlantDadManGuy@lemmy.world
      132·
      5 months ago

      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.

  • TheDemonBuer@lemmy.world
    624·
    5 months ago

    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.

    • gedaliyah@lemmy.worldM
      819·
      5 months ago

      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.

      • TheDemonBuer@lemmy.world
        313·
        5 months ago

        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.

      • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world
        132·
        5 months ago

        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”?

        • superminerJG@lemmy.world
          8·
          5 months ago

          Hitler: I want that thing!
          UK: nooooOOOO—All right you can have that but no more.
          Hitler: I want that thing!

          — OverSimplified, 202x

  • Burn_The_Right@lemmy.world
    521·
    5 months ago

    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.

  • ALQ@lemmy.world
    377·
    5 months ago

    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.

  • BigMacHole@lemm.ee
    301·
    5 months ago

    Patriotic Republicans who LOVE America AGREE with this Foreign War Criminal that Americans are Idiots!

  • Treczoks@lemmy.world
    26·
    5 months ago

    Right before they let him take to the podium, they should have read the names of the hundreds of UN employees his army bandits have killed so far. As a “quick” placeholder for all the innocent victims of this war.