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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will address a joint session of Congress on Wednesday — most of Congress, anyway.
Missing will be a few dozen radical liberals, antisemites, and Arab-lobby toadies who believe that Israel must fight its war for survival against an enemy that wishes to exterminate it on Hamas’s terms.
Some other Israeli leader might do that when, as seems fairly certain, Netanyahu will be replaced after the war. But while Netanyahu controls the Israeli armed forces, they will continue the grim task of rooting out terrorists wherever they may be.
Netanyahu will make this point clear in his speech to Congress. It’s a shame that the Anointed One, Kamala Harris, won’t preside over the proceedings.
“President Biden, who was the vice president at the time, skipped that address just as our current vice president will be boycotting the speech,” House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) told The New York Post in an interview on the eve of Netanyahu’s speech.
“I believe that’s unconscionable,” said Johnson.
Johnson, unlike Biden, Harris, and half the Democratic Party, grasps the desperation of the moment for Israel.
“He’ll emphasize the importance of America’s resolve and our support,” Johnson predicted of Netanyahu’s speech. “Israel is in a war for its very survival. It’s arguably the most desperate time for Israel since they became a nation-state again.”
“We need to have the truth presented,” he went on, “regardless of the political turmoil and all the rest that’s circling about our politics in a contentious election year.
