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
    2482·
    3 months ago

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

  • MagicShel@programming.dev
    2332·
    3 months ago

    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.

  • aleph@lemm.eeEnglish
    1273·
    3 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
      371·
      3 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
        448·
        3 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
          122·
          3 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 -_-

    • Zink@programming.dev
      2·
      3 months ago

      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.

      • aleph@lemm.eeEnglish
        1·
        3 months ago

        The speech was certainly written with the Republicans in mind, so i wouldn’t be surprising if that was intentional.

      • aleph@lemm.eeEnglish
        583·
        3 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
            17·
            3 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
          314·
          3 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·
            3 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.

      • lolcatnip@reddthat.comEnglish
        361·
        3 months ago

        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.

  • TheDemonBuer@lemmy.world
    874·
    3 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.

    • Burn_The_Right@lemmy.world
      84·
      3 months ago

      Agreed! Israel is a settlement of homeless conservative assholes who have made it their priority to be as shitty as possible to their neighbors. None of what they call Israel was ever theirs. They’ve never had any legitimate claim on that region in all of human history.

      About 100 years ago they were homeless and vulnerable, so the British allowed them to move from Europe into the Palestine region with the promise that they would be friendly and peaceful with the locals. But, they are arrogant conservatives, so they shat on absolutely everyone around them.

      Israel deserves to be abandoned to deal with the horrific situations they have created with all of their neighbors. The Palestinians deserve our help in defending against these genocidal settlers.

    • gedaliyah@lemmy.worldM
      823·
      3 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
        433·
        3 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
        142·
        3 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
          9·
          3 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

      • Revan343@lemmy.ca
        4·
        3 months ago

        He specifically said in this speech that Israel would not resettle Gaza.

        And you believed him?

        • gedaliyah@lemmy.worldM
          21·
          3 months ago

          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?

    • cygnus@lemmy.ca
      526·
      3 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.

      You’re aware that over 20% of Israel’s population is Arab, right?

  • razorwiregoatlick@lemmy.world
    801·
    3 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
      152·
      3 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.

  • Burn_The_Right@lemmy.world
    651·
    3 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.

    • Treczoks@lemmy.world
      92·
      3 months ago

      Well, she happened to have another appointement in her book, so she didn’t have to sit right behind him all the time.

      • geogle@lemmy.world
        71·
        3 months ago

        I hope it was a well publicized toothbrushing, or something else equally as menial. That would clarify her position without having to say it

  • BigMacHole@lemm.ee
    432·
    3 months ago

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

  • Lad@reddthat.com
    392·
    3 months ago

    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.

  • ALQ@lemmy.world
    458·
    3 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.

  • Treczoks@lemmy.world
    33·
    3 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.