Support our work: https://democracynow.org/donate/sm-de... We speak with Palestinian human rights lawyer Noura Erakat about Benjamin Netanyahu's address to Congress, in which he defended Israel's brutal war on Gaza, lied repeatedly about the dire humanitarian conditions on the ground and refused to talk about how to reach a ceasefire to end the bloodshed. Although more than 100 Democrats skipped the speech, Erakat says the jubilant reaction from lawmakers in attendance showed U.S. leaders cheering "for what is essentially a war on children."
In a massive act of treason, congress invited indicted war criminal Benjamin Netanyahu to brag about his war crimes and insult Americans
Netanyahu and Zionists want your children to fight and die for Israeli wars
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The US will lecture the world about international law and order then greet a genocidal war criminal with ovation and applause. This is US hypocrisy on full display. pic.twitter.com/fqZXySNDDB
Depraved war criminal Benjamin Netanyahu doing his disgusting theatrics âto great acclaimâbefore the abominable US Congress. Stomach this: 58 standing ovations.
Netanyahuâs Speech Was As American As It Gets Benjamin Netanyahuâs speech before Congress was everything youâd expect: packed full of lies and propaganda spin, but simultaneously very illuminating and revealing.
Benjamin Netanyahuâs speech before Congress was everything youâd expect: packed full of lies and propaganda spin, yet simultaneously very illuminating and revealing.
The Israeli prime minister received no fewer than 58 standing ovations while speaking before both houses of Congress and spewing the most despicable lies you could possibly imagine in his conspicuously American accent. Depending on how politically aware you are, this spectacle could be perceived as either deeply un-American, or as American as it gets.
He made the completely baseless claim that Iran may be paying the anti-genocide demonstrators outside the Capitol Building during his speech, saying, âWhen the Tyrants of Tehran, who hang gays from cranes and murder women for not covering their hair, are praising, promoting and funding you, you have officially become Iranâs useful idiots.â
Netanyahu spent minutes ranting and raving about protests in America against his governmentâs atrocities in Gaza, during which he received a standing ovation from Congress that went on for nearly a minute.Â
He accused the International Criminal Court of âantisemitismâ and âblood libelâ for saying that Israel deliberately targets civilians, as though this hasnât been conclusively established by mountains of evidence like the IDFâs Lavender AI system and statements from doctors describing what can only be deliberate sniper executions of children in Gaza.
He repeated Israelâs evidence-free claim that the only reason people are starving in Gaza is because Hamas is âstealingâ all of the aid Israel allows in for itself.
Netanyahu went out of his way to frame Israelâs plight as civilized people against uncivilized barbarians, which only works if you harbor a supremely racist worldview. He kept repeating the word âcivilizationâ, contrasting this with the âbarbarismâ of Hamas and its supporters, calling Israelâs US-backed military violence âa clash between barbarism and civilizationâ and saying âIsrael fights on the frontline of civilizationâ.Â
He made these appeals to the racism that westerners harbor toward middle easterners in the same speech wherein he decried the âoutrageous slanders that paint Israel as racist and genocidalâ.
Netanyahu said Israel âmust retain overriding security controlâ over Gaza âfor the foreseeable futureâ, an open admission of plans for indefinite military occupation.Â
This deluge of lies and racist invective received dozens and dozens of standing ovations. The same political class thatâs spent the last eight years shrieking about the threat of misinformation, disinformation and foreign propaganda just normalized and applauded a foreign genocidal war criminal as he stood before Congress telling lie after lie after lie.
You couldnât ask for a better example of everything Washington stands for than this. Both houses of Congress rising to feverishly applaud one of historyâs worst genocidal monsters dozens of times as he lies over and over again is a much better representation of what the US government is about than anything youâll see during the presidential race from now until November.
This is everything Israel is, and this is everything the US empire is. Theyâre showing you who they are. Believe them.
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ICJ Finds Israeli Occupation UNLAWFUL, Orders REPARATIONS To Displaced People
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ICJ Finds Israeli Occupation UNLAWFUL, Orders REPARATIONS To Displaced People
Due Dissidence The team examines the far-reaching consequences of the latest ICJ verdict, deeming Israel's policies illegal and criminal, and ordering Tel Avid to cease and desist and effect prompt restitution to the victims. This enormously important judicial finding has been largely downplayed by the mainstream media and denounced in many pro-Zionist channels.Â
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Lili News 029
In cynicism and power, the US propaganda machine easily surpasses Orwells Ministry of Truth.
Now the fight against anti-semitism is being weaponised as a new sanctimonious McCarthyism.
Unless opposed, neither justice nor our Constitutional right to Free Speech will survive this assault.
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Lili News 029
In cynicism and power, the US propaganda machine easily surpasses Orwells Ministry of Truth.
Now the fight against anti-semitism is being weaponised as a new sanctimonious McCarthyism.
Unless opposed, neither justice nor our Constitutional right to Free Speech will survive this assault.
Obesity rules! America, Britain, and other countries in the “collective West” getting progressively fat.
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Obesity is extremely common in America, as well as the UK, and parts of Western Europe, and for many the cause is the same: working class background, unsteady employment, or long stretches of unemployment, and economic insecurity. They constitute a "precariat". So their situation is nothing to laugh about. This precariat, say our betters, is fueling the rise of populism.
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