Netanyahu’s insane speech in Washington yesterday highlighted how utterly disconnected from the obscenity he has overseen.
Predictions are now of 186 000 Palestinians deaths, when you have killed that many human beings, some level of shame and disgust at what you have done should come through, not with Netanyahu.
I argued in January of last year that all the ingredients for a third intifada were in place after Netanyahu aligned with radical Zionists to form the most extreme right wing Government in Israel’s history.
This toxic Far Right Radical Zionist Government wanted to over rule their Judiciary to allow Zionist Settlers to illegally steal Palestinian land in the West Bank and make the lives of the over 7000 Palestinians prisoners held by Israel even more cruel and draconian.
The Abraham Accords sidelined Hamas and left them with desperate conditions and no hope for the future.
While Hamas has blood on their hands, so too does Netanyahu.
Jon Oliver’s Last Week Tonight did a special last year on Netanyahu and pointed out how many times over his corrupt time in power he and enflamed and enabled Hamas.
From the chants of “In blood and fire we will expel Rabin” that radicalised the assassination of Rabin that Netanyahu had championed to the huge donations of cash paid to Hamas to fuel inter-Palestinian blood feuds…
Netanyahu “has always been hard right”, Oliver emphasized, “but it’s worth taking a minute to underscore just how extreme his current government is”. In his most recent election, Netanyahu assembled the most rightwing government in Israel’s history, with a cabinet “stocked with extremists”. One top minister has said “there is no such thing as a Palestinian people” and advocated for a massive expansion of settlements – seizing Palestinian land – against international law.
And Netanyahu has covertly funded Hamas to play them off their more organized and legitimate rival, the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank. “Netanyahu took the risk of betting that he could control Hamas, and use them to his own ends, and he was horribly wrong about that,” Oliver explained.
…blame corrupt Netanyahu as much as Hamas for this disproportionate war crime!
The most tormented irony in this latest regurgitation of sadism between Hamas and Israel is of course Israel helped enable Hamas into the force it is now!
BLOWBACK: HOW ISRAEL WENT FROM HELPING CREATE HAMAS TO BOMBING IT
Did you also know that Hamas — which is an Arabic acronym for “Islamic Resistance Movement” — would probably not exist today were it not for the Jewish state? That the Israelis helped turn a bunch of fringe Palestinian Islamists in the late 1970s into one of the world’s most notorious militant groups? That Hamas is blowback?
This isn’t a conspiracy theory. Listen to former Israeli officials such as Brig. Gen. Yitzhak Segev, who was the Israeli military governor in Gaza in the early 1980s. Segev later told a New York Times reporter that he had helped finance the Palestinian Islamist movement as a “counterweight” to the secularists and leftists of the Palestine Liberation Organization and the Fatah party, led by Yasser Arafat (who himself referred to Hamas as “a creature of Israel.”)
“The Israeli government gave me a budget,” the retired brigadier general confessed, “and the military government gives to the mosques.”
“Hamas, to my great regret, is Israel’s creation,” Avner Cohen, a former Israeli religious affairs official who worked in Gaza for more than two decades, told the Wall Street Journal in 2009. Back in the mid-1980s, Cohen even wrote an official report to his superiors warning them not to play divide-and-rule in the Occupied Territories, by backing Palestinian Islamists against Palestinian secularists. “I … suggest focusing our efforts on finding ways to break up this monster before this reality jumps in our face,” he wrote.
They didn’t listen to him. And Hamas, as I explain in the fifth installment of my short film series for The Intercept on blowback, was the result. To be clear: First, the Israelis helped build up a militant strain of Palestinian political Islam, in the form of Hamas and its Muslim Brotherhood precursors; then, the Israelis switched tack and tried to bomb, besiege, and blockade it out of existence.
In the past decade alone, Israel has gone to war with Hamas three times — in 2009, 2012, and 2014 — killing around 2,500 Palestinian civilians in Gaza in the process. Meanwhile, Hamas has killed far more Israeli civilians than any secular Palestinian militant group. This is the human cost of blowback.
…Israeli tactics to fund the most radical and extremist groups to topple enemies is a game the Americans played with Al Qaeda and saw resources going to Osama Bin Laden to play the exact same role with the blowback of 9/11.
The problem with the brutal use of tactics like this is that it generates unforeseen blowback.
Hamas is one such unforeseen blowback.
Peace is our only option because the War Gods are interested only in the profit of blood loss, not the prevention of it.
These were the share prices of the war lords as violence exploded in the Middle East.
To paraphrase Gil Scott Heron, ‘they got folk out there working for war, we have to go to work for peace’.
Netanyahu is working for war and on the day he was manipulating America into expanding his war, Joe Biden who could do nothing to stop Netanyahu explained why he was standing down.
Much has been said about how great Joe was for leaving but the real question should be on the Democrats for allowing him to stay when the decline was so apparent.
Joe’s Presidency saw progress, you can’t claim it didn’t, but the response never secured the lives of the 135 million Americans living in poverty and out of that resentment Trump’s orange poison was allowed to manifest.
Joe’s Presidency will be forever stained by Israel’s war crime.
What a sad ditch to die in.
Yes the corrupt Netanyahu from……Poland. Ancestral home my arse. How many of these settlers stealing land really have links to the land? Far fewer than the people they are stealing from I would wager.
Yes , the real anti Semites are the anti Palestinians .
The only war criminals are the terrorists, Hamas. Bibi was superb and Congress welcomed him with a 3 minute standing ovation.
lol, noone cares what your filthy puppets do, zionist. They will receive justice for their part in your crimes alongside you.
gaby – Not sure what people expect Israel to do if it is attacked by terrorists…let it happen, smile and take it, or defend itself?
Nathan, they might want to reflect on what they have been doing pre October 7. Hmmm let’s see…once funding said terrorists, stealing land, and imprisoning Palestinians seemingly for existing. I think if we get into ‘who started the whole shit show’, the Palestinians are not even near second on that list.
Caitlin Johnstone:
Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech before Congress was everything you’d expect: packed full of lies and propaganda spin, but 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.
Netanyahu repeated evidence-free atrocity propaganda about what happened on October 7, falsely asserting that Hamas “burned babies alive” and killed two babies in an attic. He falsely claimed that Hamas “butchered 1,200 people”, pretending it’s not a well-established fact that many of the 1,139 Israeli deaths that day came from both indiscriminate IDF fire and deliberate targeting in implementation of the Hannibal Directive.
He made the completely baseless claim that Iran may be paying the anti-genocide demonstrators outside the Capitol Building during his speech, saying, “When 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 Iran’s useful idiots.”
Netanyahu spent minutes ranting and raving about protests in America against his government’s atrocities in Gaza, during which he received a standing ovation from Congress that went on for nearly a minute.
He accused the International Criminal Court of “antisemitism” and “blood libel” for saying that Israel deliberately targets civilians, as though this hasn’t been conclusively established by mountains of evidence like the IDF’s Lavender AI system and statements from doctors describing what can only be deliberate sniper executions of children in Gaza.
He repeated Israel’s evidence-free claim that the only reason people are starving in Gaza is because Hamas is “stealing” all of the aid Israel allows in for itself.
Netanyahu went out of his way to frame Israel’s plight as civilized people against uncivilized barbarians, which only works if you harbor a supremely racist worldview. He kept repeating the word “civilization”, contrasting this with the “barbarism” of Hamas and its supporters, calling Israel’s US-backed military violence “a clash between barbarism and civilization” and saying “Israel fights on the frontline of civilization”.
He made these appeals to the racism that westerners harbor toward middle easterners in the same speech wherein he decried the “outrageous slanders that paint Israel as racist and genocidal”.
Netanyahu said Israel “must retain overriding security control” over Gaza “for the foreseeable future”, an open admission of plans for indefinite military occupation.
This deluge of lies and racist invective received dozens and dozens of standing ovations. The same political class that’s 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 couldn’t ask for a better example of everything Washington stands for than this. Both houses of Congress rising to feverishly applaud one of history’s 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 you’ll see during the presidential race from now until November.
This is everything Israel is, and this is everything the US empire is. They’re showing you who they are. Believe them.
” Depending on how politically aware you are, this spectacle could be perceived as either deeply un-American, or as American as it gets. ”
I will go for as American as it gets.
58 standing ovations? Excellent. There’s hope yet that the Hamas Einsatzgruppen won’t win.
Yet the MSM constantly played portions of Netanyahu’s speech, no one would play Hitler’s speech for obvious reasons yet they constantly give credibility to Netanyahu’s lies by repeating them.
yes way too much air time for this mongrel and the orange one .There should be a blanket ban on both of them as well as seymore and a few more right here .No room in this world for hate and racisim
I agree with you about hate and racism but find it strange that you post hate filled posts towards the right on every subject. I understand those who are left leaning and support Labour may see the world through different lenses but most put up facts and a good argument
not personnal attacks like you do.
The filthy bastard should not have been allowed into the country let alone the combined House.
But that is the US ruling class for you, and US Imperialism as it applies to the Israeli butchers. The yanks could end the slaughter with one phone call and closing off all cash and arms–but they won’t–so it will be up the world solidarity movement including BDS, and Mid East armed fight back.
gaby – Not sure what people expect Israel to do if it is attacked by terrorists…let it happen, smile and take it, or defend itself?
More like the classic response of Goldfinger: No, Mr Bond. I expect you to die!
Meanwhile, many here would happily welcome real terrorists, murderers & criminals.
The Netanyahu puppet used in the Demos had every Middle Ages Jew-hating trope: nose, horns and blood.
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