Written By Caitlin Johnston
Speech Benjamin Netanyahu in front of Congress was everything you'd expect: full of lies and propaganda, but at the same time very enlightening and revealing
The Israeli Prime Minister has 58 ovations as he spoke before both Houses of Congress and spewed out the most disgusting lies you can imagine with his striking American accent. Depending on how politically aware you are, this spectacle could be perceived either as deeply un-American, or as American.
Netanyahu repeated the propaganda about the crime with no evidence of what happened 7. October, false claims "it was Hamas."burning alive baby"and killed two babies in the attic. He falsely claimed that Hamas had "butchered 1,200 people", pretending it was not a well-established fact that many of Israel's 1,139 deaths that day stemmed from indiscriminate IDF fire (The Israel Defense Forces) and deliberate shooting directive Hannibal.
During his speech, he made a completely unfounded claim that Iran may be paying anti-genocide protesters in front of the Capitol building, saying: "When the tyrants of Tehran, who hang gays from cranes and kill women for not covering their hair, praise, promote and fund you, you officially become useful idiots of Iran.”
Netanyahu spent minutes babbling and raving about protests in America against his government's crimes in Gaza, during which he received a standing ovation from Congress that lasted almost a minute.
He accused the International Criminal Court of " antisemitism "and" blood libel " for saying Israel deliberately targeted civilians, as if it had not been finally established by hills of evidence like the IDF's artificial intelligence system Lavender and statement doctor which describe what can only mean the deliberate sniper executions of children in Gaza.
He reiterated Israel's claim without proof that the only reason people are starving in Gaza is because Hamas is "stealing" all the aid Israel allows itself.
Netanyahu has done his best to shape Israel's plight as a civilized nation against uncivilized Barbarians, which only works if you have an extremely racist worldview. He kept repeating the word "civilization," in opposition to the "barbarism" of Hamas and its supporters, calling Israeli military violence backed by the US "a conflict between barbarism and civilization" and saying "Israel is fighting on the front line of civilization."
He appealed to the racism Westerners harbor towards Middle Eastern residents in the same speech in which he condemned "outrageous slanders who portray Israel as racist and genocidal".
Netanyahu said Israel " must maintain overwhelming security control "over Gaza" for the foreseeable future, " an open acknowledgment of plans for an unlimited military occupation.
This flood of lies and racist criticism received dozens and dozens of ovations. The same political class that spent the last eight years screaming about the threat of disinformation and foreign propaganda just normalized and applauded the foreign genocidal war criminal as he stood before Congress telling, one after another, lies.
You can't ask for a better example of what Washington stands for than this. Both Houses of Congress rising up to applaude one of the worst genocidal monsters in history, dozens of times while lying over and over, is a much better representation of what the U.S. government stands for than anything you'll see during the presidential race now through November .
This is all that Israel is, and this is all that the American empire is. They show you who they are. Trust them.
Source: Netanyahu's Speech Was As American As It Gets – Caitlin Johnstone
Translation from English: Center for geostrategic studies
27. July 2024.