LOS ANGELES.–Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu agreed to a ceasefire plan that includes a six-week end to hostilities in the besieged Gaza Strip, return of children and female hostages, eventual end to Hamas rule and new government. President Joe Biden, 81, agreed to Netanyahu’s plan, at least for now, until some of the stickier points to the ceasefire plan get fully implemented. Netanyahu accepted an invitation from 52-year-old House Speaker Mike Johnson to speak to a joint session of Congress. “It is a very sad day for our country that Prime Minister Benjanmin Netanyahu has been invited—by leaders from both parties—to addres a joint session of the United States Confress,” Sen. Bernie Sanders, 82, said. Sanders represents the radical left in the country, closely aligned with terrorists around the world, certainly the terrorists living in the Gaza Strip and West Bank.
Sander’s statements can’t pass unnoticed, the way he represents the radical fringe of the Democrat Party, despite the fact he’s ethnically Jewish. “Benjamin Netanyahu is a war criminal. He should not be invited to address a joint meeting of Congress. I certainly will not attend,” Sanders said, showing he has no respect for the Constitution or rule of law. Netanyahu hasn’t been convicted of war crimes, only charged in The Hague’s International Criminal Court [ICC], an international body not recognized by the United States. Sanders shows his true colors as a radical leftist, reserving judgment until he learns more about what Israel has done to eliminate a terror group that slaughtered innocent Israelis Oct. 7, 2023 and, more importantly, similar terrorists to the ones on Sept. 11.
Sander doesn’t understand U.S. foreign policy when dealing with terrorists. It took 10 years and countless hours of manpower to finally track down Sept. 11 terrorist mastermind Osama bin Laden. Yet for some unknown reason, Sanders picks on Israel faced with an existential struggle against radical Palestine represented by Hamas that believes Israel has no right to exist. What was Netanyahu supposed to do with 61-year-old radical Gaza terrorist leader Yahya Sinwar? Ignore the biggest slaughter of Jews since the Nazi Holocaust? Because Sanders, a self-loathing Jew, denies his Jewish heritage written all over his face and his Brooklyn accent, he compensates by taking the Palestinian cause. After Sept. 11, former President George W. Bush set a new policy for dealing with all terrorists, including Palestinians, that the U.S. government will not deal with them.
If you listen to Palestinians, they’ve been brainwashed to think that Israel stole their sovereign land when Israel took over the British Mandate of Palestine in 1948. Arabs living in the Holy Lands lived under Ottoman Turk rule for over 500 years. Only after the British gave the territory to Jews did Arabs revolt, claiming occupation. For over 500 years, no Arab group claimed the Ottoman Empire occupied Arab land. But once the Jews received sovereignty, it’s been a constant battle since 1948. Sanders and other Jew-haters can’t fathom the fact that Israel is the U.S. No. 1 ally in the Middle East and around the world. Under Jewish sovereignty, the Holy Land was transformed from a desert wasteland into one of the most sophistical countries on the planet with the world best technology, health care, academia, arts and culture. Hamas thinks they’re entitled by their charter to destroy Israel and return the Holy Land back to the Stone Age before Israel took over in 1948.
Johnson wants to hear directly from Netyanyahu, not Biden’s State Department, what’s best for Israel during this time of war. Israel didn’t ask for war but Sinwar planned for over a year to take in Nazi-like revenge on the Jewish State. What doesn’t Sanders get? Hamas raped, tortured and murdered Israeli citizens because they were Jews. Does Sanders represent the interest of women and children only if they’re radical leftists? Hamas gang raped Israeli teenagers attending a Negev Desert music festival, the same horrors seen by ISIS when the raped, tortured and killed Yazidi women in Kurdistan. Does Sanders only rant about Yazidi women or China’s Uygurs but ignores his own people when they’re faced with a new Holocaust? Sanders should resign for his reckless comments about Netanyahu accused by South Africa in The Hague. Does Sanders think South Africa has the last word?
If the U.S. government doesn’t subscribe to The Hague’s ICC, what government does Sanders represent, telling Congress that Netanyahu is a war criminal? Netanyahu did what any leader or any country would do confronted with an unthinkable slaughter of innocent civilians. Netanyahu last spoke to a joint session of Congress March 3, 2015 over the objections to the Obama White House because he disagreed with the Iranian Nuke Deal. Netanyahu warned Congress that giving Iran billions would only support that Ayatollah’s state-sponsored terrorism. Obama’s Iranian Nuke deal was unenforceable, lifting sanctions and handing the Ayatollah all the cash he needed to fund terror groups around the Middle East. Instead of dismissing Netanyahu as a criminal, Sanders should listen to the MIT graduate, far more astute about Mideat and world affairs that Sander’s obsession with socialism.
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John M. Curtis writes politically neutral commentary analyzing spin in national and global news. He’s editor of OnlineColumnist.com and author of Dodging The Bullet and Operation Charisma.
