By Patricia Zengerle – 3 minutes read time.
Please Help – Our Situation is Critical.
Donations Are Down 40%
If you can’t imagine a future without the Information Clearing House , please consider supporting our work.
Please give today $5, $10, $20, $50, $100- To Use your debit/credit card or check click here: http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/support.htm
or if you prefer to send a check or money order, (US Funds) Information Clearing House, PO Box 365 Imperial Beach, CA 91933. USA.
Low income readers: DON’T send money, just encourage others to subscribe.
To all who have assisted in the past. Thank you. Your help is greatly appreciated.
Peace and Joy
Tom Feeley
=====
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Republican leader of the U.S. House of Representatives said on Tuesday he was close to inviting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to address lawmakers even if the Senate’s Democratic leader did not go along.
House Speaker Mike Johnson told reporters at the Capitol he had given Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer until Tuesday to sign a letter inviting Netanyahu to address a joint meeting.
“If not, we’re going to proceed and invite Netanyahu just to the House,” Johnson said.
Schumer confirmed that he was talking to Johnson. “I’m discussing that now with the speaker of the House and, as I’ve always said, our relationship with Israel is ironclad. It transcends any one prime minister or president,” Schumer told reporters at his weekly news conference.
The possible divide between the two parties over the issue underscored the politicization of Israel policy, months before a November presidential election in which Democratic President Joe Biden is running against Republican former President Donald Trump.
Republicans have criticized Biden for holding up a weapons shipment to Israel, although other U.S. arms shipments to the Middle East country remain in the pipeline.
Israel launched an assault on Gaza after Hamas militants attacked Israel in October, killing 1,200 people and taking more than 250 hostages, according to Israeli tallies.
More than 35,000 Palestinians have been killed in the war, according to the Gaza health ministry. Malnutrition is widespread and much of the coastal enclave’s population has been left homeless, while much of its infrastructure has been destroyed.
Biden’s handling of the war has sparked protests from many of his fellow Democrats and at college campuses across the U.S. Biden has urged Netanyahu to minimized civilian casualties in Gaza and has opposed a large-scale attack on Gaza’s southernmost city, Rafah.
Netanyahu, who has long aligned himself with U.S. Republicans, in March addressed party members in the Senate via a video link, nearly a week after Schumer gave a Senate speech branding the prime minister an obstacle to peace and urging new elections in Israel.
Addresses to joint meetings of Congress by foreign leaders are a rare honor generally reserved for the closest U.S. allies, or major world figures. Netanyahu has already given such addresses three times, most recently in 2015.
That year, Republican congressional leaders invited Netanyahu to address a joint meeting without consulting Democratic then-President Barack Obama, as Netanyahu joined Republicans in opposition to Obama’s international nuclear deal with Iran.
Netanyahu would be the first foreign leader ever to address joint meetings of Congress four times. He is currently tied at three with Britain’s wartime prime minister, Winston Churchill.
(Reporting by Patricia Zengerle; additional reporting by Makini Brice; editing by Don Durfee and Jonathan Oatis)
Copyright 2024 Thomson Reuters.
Comments
12 responses to “US House Leader Moves Toward Inviting Netanyahu to Address Congress”
Hamas killed 1,200 people???
Israel killed most of them but we don’t talk about that.
Truth telling is an anti-semitic hate crime.
White supremacy Israel has murdered millions. What’s happening now is a drop in the bucket.
These people don’t care about facts, protests, or political sink holes. They’re doubling down.
I’m nearly speechless. Will someone be at the Hill to arrest Bibi?
You don’t mess with the Boss Connie. High treason perpetuated by Democrats none the less, they fight with the GOP for first prize in that hideous award.
“Netanyahu would be the first foreign leader ever to address joint meetings of Congress four times. He is currently tied at three with Britain’s wartime prime minister, Winston Churchill.”
Thats appropriate.
Churchill was himself a genocidal imperial white supremacist with a string of war crimes behind his whitewashed history.
But then Wa££ $t (via the Dulles brothers law firm Sullivan&Cromwell) financed and built Adolf’s war machine to render Europe judenrein and break up Moscow’s hold on the vast resource base of Asia; an Anglo-French ambition since Napoleon and Pa£merston’s attempts in the 19th century.
The g£obal pi££ag€ idiot$ are on autopilot, right down to their ‘Gospel’, ‘Lavender’ and ‘Where’s Daddy’ AI computerised mass indU$tria£i$€d $£aught€r.
Let it happen. Invite the war criminal. This will further isolate the US as being the sponsor of Israeli state terrorism. Perhaps it will awaken the vast majority of Americans who are true patriots what their corrupt politicians are up to.
Inviting a war criminal to address Congress would make a fine litmus test for identifying “supporters of genocide” in Congress. Thanks to AIPAC, it may very well prove to be a majority of Congress, requiring “regime change” as the only solution.
Let’s hope D.C. is bombarded with protestors when the barbarian arrives. Maybe the protestors could do a “citizen’s” arrest. He won’t get arrested landing on our soil. The U.S. didn’t sign on to the ICC.
Judith
May your wish come true. I was wishing the same thing.
I guess with today’s mentality of ‘anything goes’…Hitler would have been invited too. And this is the nation that wants to be leader of the world??? Try practicing what you preach, Yank…