Ocasio-Cortez says ‘war criminal’ Netanyahu should not address US Congress
US Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has said Benjamin Netanyahu is a “war criminal” with “no regard” for US law, after the Israeli Prime Minister released a video criticising the Biden administration for “withholding weapons and ammunitions to Israel”.
Netanyahu’s invitation to address the US Congress on July 24 should be revoked, Ocasio-Cortez added, in a post on X.
US Republican and Democratic leaders issued an invitation to Netanyahu to give an address weeks after the International Criminal Court’s chief prosecutor announced he was seeking an arrest warrant for Netanyahu over alleged war crimes.
Edward Snowden says Netanyahu ‘running campaign ads for Trump’
Netanyahu’s video message slamming the Biden administration shows the Israeli Prime Minister is “predictably running campaign ads for Trump,” says US whistleblower Edward Snowden, in a post on X.
Biden’s support for Netanyahu earned him the nickname “Genocide Joe” while “torching his electoral chances and 80 percent of Gaza”, said Snowden.
Netanyahu did not specifically refer to Trump, who is Biden’s main rival in the upcoming US presidential election in the video, but Snowden said it showed Netanyahu and Biden had a “perfectly Scorpion-and-the-Frog” relationship.
I'm sorry, but Biden going full "Genocide Joe"—torching his electoral chances and 80% of Gaza in order to cover for Bibi's war crimes—only to have Bibi (predictably) start running campaign ads for Trump is just so, so perfectly Scorpion-and-the-Frog. You couldn't write it better. https://t.co/zdBq4254N2
— Edward Snowden (@Snowden) June 18, 2024
Netanyahu attacks US for ‘not sending him bombs fast enough’: Senator
US Senator Bernie Sanders said his country should withhold sending Israel “all offensive military aid” after the Israeli prime minister attacked the pace at which the US was supplying him bombs to use in Gaza.
Israel has a right to defend itself, Sanders said, but it “does not have the right to go to war against the entire Palestinian people”.
“Yet that is exactly what has happened,” Sanders said. “The right wing extremist Netanyahu government has killed more than 37,000 Palestinians and injured nearly 85,000. 60 percent of whom are women, children or elderly,” he said.
“It is absurd that Netanyahu has been invited to address Congress. We should not be honouring people who use the starvation of children as a weapon of war,” he added.
Today, Netanyahu put out a video attacking the U.S. for not sending him bombs fast enough.
Let’s be clear: His right wing, extremist government has killed 37,000 Palestinians.
The U.S. should withhold all offensive military aid to Israel and demand an end to this war. pic.twitter.com/VJlBjP2w2e
— Bernie Sanders (@SenSanders) June 19, 2024
White Houses axes US-Israel meeting after Netanyahu video
The White House has called off a high-level meeting with Israeli officials after PM Netanyahu released a video lambasting the US for what he said was a delay in weapons shipments, according to US news outlet Axios.
President Biden’s senior advisers were “enraged” by the video and his team was “shocked by Netanyahu’s ingratitude”, reported Axios, citing two US officials.
The cancellation of the meeting, while some Israeli officials were already on their way to Washington, “makes it clear that there are consequences for pulling such stunts”, one of the officials told Axios.
Publicly, as we reported, the White House voiced confusion at Netanyahu’s video statement, saying only “one particular shipment” of munitions had been paused.
