Posted on 03/22/2024 8:07:31 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Speaker of the House Mike Johnson says he plans to invite Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to address a joint session of Congress.
What better way for Netanyahu to counter Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer's completely inappropriate and disgraceful speech he delivered that encouraged Israel to hold an election while Israel is at war? Schumer most likely delivered that speech at President Biden's request. Biden doesn't have the nerve to be honest about his feelings about Netanyahu. He likes to point to several decades of friendship but privately he is stabbing Netanyahu and Israel in the back.
Israel has a right to protect herself. This is a time of moral clarity and Biden, along with most Democrats, is failing spectacularly. A very strong and vocal population in the Democrat Party is antisemitic. It has been an eye-opener to see the large number of them so publicly anti-Israel and pro-Hamas.
Chuck Schumer had no right to make that speech and Joe Biden was wrong to say he thought it was a good speech. It was not. It was an American senator meddling in Israel's government. It brought back memories of former President Barack Obama's staff who went to Israel during his administration to make sure that Netanyahu did not win an election back then. Biden and Obama have worked against Netanyahu for years. Obama despises Netanyahu.
Schumer said he believes that Netanyahu has "lost his way" and is an obstacle to peace. Netanyahu is trying to destroy Hamas, as he has the right to do after the massacres on October 7, 2023, an act of war by any standard, and Schumer's interference was shocking. The silence from other Democrat senators since Schumer's speech is deafening. What a bunch of cowards. Now Schumer says he'd welcome an address from Netanyahu.
“Israel has no stronger ally than the United States and our relationship transcends any one president or any one prime minister,” he said. “I will always welcome the opportunity for the prime minister of Israel to speak to Congress in a bipartisan way.”
There is history of Netanyahu addressing a joint session of Congress. He was invited by former Republican Speaker John Boehner during a time of sensitive talks about Iran's nuclear program. Democrats criticized Boehner because Obama was not consulted. Obama was too busy cozying up to the Iranian leadership to try to make a deal.
Johnson said today that he had a lengthy conversation with the prime minister. He said he “reiterated to him the House Republicans’ strong support for Israel in their efforts there.”
Senate Republicans heard from Netanyahu at their weekly caucus lunch via video today. He told them that he believes he still has support in the United States and in Israel. He also said Schumer's remarks were inappropriate.
“We made it clear to the prime minister that in our judgment, the American people overwhelmingly support Israel’s war, that we understand the need to prosecute the war,” Louisiana Sen. John Kennedy said after the video call. “Without conquering Hamas, we cannot have peace.”
Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell said that Netanyahu had called him last week and said he wanted to address the GOP conference. “Bipartisan support for Israel seems to be cracking on the political left in this country,” said McConnell, who has been sharply critical of Schumer’s remarks.
Democrats don't like Netanyahu because he is conservative and he has a spine of steel. He has made it abundantly clear that he is in charge and will pursue the demise of Hamas on his own terms. Joe Biden and Chuck Schumer should stay in their lane. Biden's pandering to Dearborn, Michigan Muslim Arab American voters is destructive to the future security of Israel.
Donald Trump weighed in on the kerfuffle by advising Jews on voting. Shocker, I know. He is being criticized by Jews for saying this week that “any Jewish person that votes for Democrats hates their religion.” That was like Biden telling Charlemagne tha God, "Well I tell you what, if you have a problem figuring out whether you're for me or Trump, then you ain't black."
American Jewish history professor Jonathan Sarna at Brandeis University said Trump is capitalizing on tensions within the Jewish community. Jews don't want to be told how to be Jewish.
“For people who hate Donald Trump in the Jewish community, certainly this statement will reinforce their sense that they don’t want to have anything to do with him,” he said. “For people who like Donald Trump in the Jewish community, they probably nod in agreement.”
To many Jewish leaders in a demographic that has overwhelmingly identified as Democratic and supported President Joe Biden in 2020, Trump’s latest comments promoted harmful antisemitic stereotypes, painting Jews as having divided loyalties and that there’s only one right way to be Jewish religiously.
“That escalation of rhetoric is so dangerous, so divisive and so wrong,” said Rabbi Rick Jacobs, president of the Union for Reform Judaism, the largest U.S. Jewish religious denomination. “This is a moment when Israel needs there to be more bipartisan support.”
I find it unthinkable that American politicians need to be reminded that Israel is a loyal and strong ally to the United States. It is the only democracy in its neighborhood. Israel deserves to pursue the war against Hamas as it sees fit, without interference from American Democrats.
This is Swamp Filth activity.
Why not just have the Speaker travel to Michigan and get on all the media outlets to announce that Donald Trump and the GOP have a fervent desire to line all American-born Muslims up against a wall and mow them down.
This is the Swamp attacking Trump. It’s not anything else, because nothing else matters than Trump.
Astute move.
Good idea.It’ll be fun to see all the empty seats...most of which should have been occupied by Rats.
I’m fine with Congress inviting the prime minister to visit. But how will the lunatic antisemitic fringe Schumer, miss Somalia and the other evil trash, receive him? They’re likely to further embarrass us with more Nazi- style pro- terrorist rantings.
Hopefully they’ll do as they’ve done before and absent themselves.
I sure wish they’d absent themselves from our government period. They’re just plain disgusting.
Most support for Israel is Republican.
Most antagonism against Israel is by Democrats.
Shining the spotlight on the difference helps Republicans.
Will they be able to find the time since they seem to be so busy sending buzzilions to the ukes? Israel? Meh. Grrrrrr!
I believbe Israel wants to PURCHASE American arms. They get the weapons, we get their money.
Why?
RE; Why?
To show support for Israel’s war to eliminate Hamas as opposed to Biden trying to stop Israel from doing their job.
RE: While Johnson is correct about this, he’s still a big wuss.
I gather you’re for shutting down the government.
Why should I “support” a foreign war? My country is being invaded.
Both Israel and Ukraine aren’t my concerns.
Babbling about Israel and abortion is a good way to lose the election.
FR might care about Israel, but most Americans care about domestic issues.
Actually it's Biden and the Democrats who are for destroying the country or shutting the country down.
Are you for destroying the country? Johnson apparently is.
The schadenfreude here is delicious. The Democrats have stepped on a land mine of their own making and most likely have both feet blown off. This is what you get when you have to pander to a few thousand followers of a rump religion in Michigan in an attempt to save your electoral a$$.
I vividly recall Netanyahu’s address to Congress back in 2015. He is a forceful and articulate speaker. I remember thinking that I wished he were our President instead of the purple lipped Nigerian. This will be a wonderful opportunity for Netanyahu to bring a well deserved a$$ whupp’n to Biden and the rest of the back stabbers in the Democrat party. It will be a most enjoyable spectacle.
“I believbe Israel wants to PURCHASE American arms. They get the weapons, we get their money.”
Israel can buy from Europe, Russia or China. They can purchase all the weapons they want.
Yes they can. But the USA has the best weapons, so why not buy from us?
Why aren’t Republicans asking why a 57 year old whack a war is our concern? Both sides are addicted to this conflict; must we be, too?
Why must we insert ourselves into things that are not our concern and serve no US interest?
RE: Actually it’s Biden and the Democrats who are for destroying the country or shutting the country down.
Put it this way. You are the Speaker, the time to fund the government is upon us. You want to cut spending, you only have a 4 seat majority and not every Republican is on your side, plus, Senate is controlled by the Democrats and Biden is President.
In the meantime, the government has bills to pay and debts to service and the military to support.
What do you do as Speaker?
This problem has been going on for ages since as far back as George W. Bush’s second term. The only time we got off this viscious circle was when Republicans had a huge majority in both house in the 1990’s and Dick Morris advised Clinton to sign the spending bill presented to him by Newt Gingrich ( Trent Lott was the Senate mjority leader ).
Those times no longer exist.
RE: Why aren’t Republicans asking why a 57 year old whack a war is our concern?
Because The United States played an important role in the founding and international recognition of the State of Israel in 1948. The U.S. supported the United Nations plan to partition British-controlled Palestine into separate Jewish and Arab states. This became U.N. Resolution 181 in 1947. The early diplomatic recognition and support from the U.S. government under Truman was crucial for establishing and legitimizing the new State of Israel in 1948 after Britain’s departure from Palestine.
One other option is for the USA to just tell Israel to SHOVE IT and say, it’s your problem, we’re no longer going to get involved one way or another.
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