Posted on 06/02/2024 8:41:19 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has accepted an invitation from US congressional leaders to address a joint meeting of Congress, his office said in a statement Saturday.
“I am very moved to have the privilege of representing Israel before both Houses of Congress and to present the truth about our just war against those who seek to destroy us to the representatives of the American people and the entire world,” Netanyahu said.
The top four US congressional leaders on Friday formally invited Netanyahu to address a joint meeting of Congress.
“We join the State of Israel in your struggle against terror, especially as Hamas continues to hold American and Israeli citizens captive and its leaders jeopardize regional stability,” the letter from House Speaker Mike Johnson, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell reads.
“For this reason, on behalf of the bipartisan leadership of the United States House of Representatives and the United States Senate, we would like to invite you to address a Joint Meeting of Congress.”
The letter, which does not provide a date for the address, is signed by the top Democrats and Republicans in the House and Senate.
The invitation comes after much speculation as additional military aid to Israel remains in question and Democrats are facing pressure from their left wing as the party remains divided over Israel’s handling of the war against Hamas.
President Joe Biden on Friday laid out a three-phase proposal Israel has submitted to wind down the grinding crisis in Gaza.
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The USA is not affiliated with the ICC ... yet.
The Squad is going to harass and drown him out during his address. I can see it happening.
The Squat will boycott or show up wearing keffiyehs.
Will the FBI authorize deadly force?
Will they arrest him and extradite him to the ICC?
It's enough to envision Admiral Akbar telling Netanyahu "It's a trap!!!!"
It will be rather difficult to pressure Israel into “negotiating,” since
Israel has US munitions and weaponry to destroy Hamas entirely on its own.
The State Department last week approved the transfer of 25 F-35A fighter jets and engines, a US official added. The planes and engines are estimated to be worth around $2.5 billion.
There are no corresponding announcements on the Defense Security Cooperation Agency’s website where such notifications are normally posted.
On Friday, Senator Bernie Sanders criticised Biden administration’s approval of sending more weapons to Israel. “The US cannot beg Netanyahu to stop bombing civilians one day and the next send him thousands more 2,000 lb. bombs that can level entire city blocks. This is obscene,” Sanders said on X, sharing the report of Washington Post. “We must end our complicity: No more bombs to Israel,” Sanders reiterated.
Yawn......doesnt make any difference who’s president. America’s interests always come last.
Obama’s $38 billion Israeli deal that covered fiscal years 2019-2028 included:
<><>-annual US payments to Israel of $3.3 billion in “military financing,”
<><>-$500 million a year for Israel’s missile defense operations in the Negev, a foreign aid first,
<><>-A phasing-out of Israel’s decades-long “special arrangement”
<><>ie. Israel used 26.3% of US aid on its own global defense industry (not on US-made weapons).
<><>-Eliminates Israel using some 13% of US aid to buy military fuel.
<><>-will allow Israel to update “the lion’s share” of its fighter aircraft,
<><>includes purchasing additional F-35 Joint Strike Fighters.
<><>Israel is to initially receive thirty-three F-35 aircraft,
<><>the first two F-35’s will be delivered in December.
The (a) weaponry build-up from Obama 2018 into 2028, (b) follows the $30 billion weaponry deal Israel signed in 2007, which expires at the end of fiscal 2018, and (c) a systematic buildup of Israeli arms, like this one in 2015.
ISRAEL – JOINT DIRECT ATTACK MUNITION TAIL KITS AND MUNITIONS
Defense Security Cooperation Agency
Media/Public Contact
pm-cpa@state.gov
Transmittal No 15-36
WASHINGTON, May 19, 2015
As required by US law, the Defense Security Cooperation Agency delivered the required certification notifying Congress of this possible sale to Israel on May 18, 2015: Joint Direct Attack Munition Tail Kits, munitions, and associated equipment, parts and logistical support for an estimated cost of $1.879 billion.
The Government of Israel has requested:
<><>14,500 KMU-556C/B Joint Direct Attack Munitions (JDAM) tail kits
<><>consisting of 10,000 for Mk-84;
<><>500 for Mk-83;
<><>and,4,000 for Mk-82;
<><>3,500 Mk-82 bombs; 4,500 Mk-83 bombs;
<><>50 BLU-113 bombs;
<><>4,100 GBU-39 Small Diameter bombs;
<><>1,500 Mk-83 Paveway kits;
<><>700 BLU-109 Paveway kits;
<><>3,000 AGM-114K/R Hellfire Missiles,
<><>250 AIM-120C Advanced Medium Range Air-to-Air Missiles;
<><>and 500 DSU-38A/B Detector Laser Illuminated Target kits for JDAMs.
The proposed sale of this equipment will provide Israel
<><>the ability to support its self-defense needs
<><>enable Israel to maintain operational capability of its existing systems
<><>and will enhance Israel’s interoperability with the United States.
Israel already has these US munitions in its inventory, and will have no difficulty absorbing the additional US munitions into its armed forces.
When it came time to pay, Israeli lobbies got the Congress to declare the munition sales a “gift.”
All questions regarding this proposed Foreign Military Sale should be directed to the State Department’s Bureau of Political Military Affairs, Office of Congressional and Public Affairs, pm-cpa@state.gov.
Security will be one elderly man picking up temporary work from his retail store security job. And another who is a school crossing guard on summer vacation.
Just ask everybody to let opposing viewpoints be heard; no need for shouting or fighting.
“Will they arrest him and extradite him to the ICC?”
The WHOLE POINT of the Neocons allowing the Oct. 7th massacre (in my opinion) was to ‘weaken Netanyahu’ so as to drive him from power and install a US Puppet Government, so it’s hard to see how the Neocons can pass-up this opportunity to remove Netanyahu from power...but whatever means.
Let’s not give those miscreants any ideas 💡now.
I hope they just boycott. They don’t deserve to be in the presence of Benjamin Netanyahu, much less in congress.
I hope not. I’ll be praying for his safety.
Kind of weird that Biden isn’t taking credit for this proposal that only benefits Hamas after all commies love taking credit for stuff but Biden doesn’t want credit for this makes ya wonder
We still have that law permitting us to go to war with the ICC if necessary.
I’d like to see them try.
Mossad vs. the FBI (and other alphabet soup agents with guns):
Better than Cowboys vs. indians.
Nothing would surprise me at this point. Netanyahu had better watch what he eats and drinks too. Jobama is showing desperation via the fake Trump trial and would love to off Trump in jail. Same with Bibi (he’s a thorn in Jobama’s side).
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