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Yair Lapid calls Netanyahu speech a ‘disgrace’
Israeli opposition leader Yair Lapid has bashed Netanyahu’s address in a social media post, saying that the Israeli leader went through his speech without endorsing a deal to bring remaining captives home.
“Disgrace!” Lapid said in a post on X, formerly known as Twitter.
https://x.com/yairlapid/status/1816190163934142965
‘Not in our names, not with our consent’: Demonstrator
Alaa Yousef, a 32-year-old Palestinian American, told Al Jazeera that she travelled to Washington, DC, from New York to voice her concerns about Netanyahu’s address to Congress, calling the Israeli prime minister a “war criminal who should stand trial”.
“We just here to cause a disruption, shut it down [and] say, ‘Not in our names, not with our consent,” Yousef said.
She called Netanyahu’s invite to Congress “disgusting”. She also expressed astonishment that congressional leaders chose to bring the prime minister to the Capitol yet again.
“I don’t get how people get to a level where they detach themselves so much from their humanity that they can see what’s been happening in Gaza… and still continue to entertain him and invite him here,” Yousef said.
Activist decries ‘most documented genocide in human history’
Irene Ippolito, a protester draped in a red keffiyeh, told Al Jazeera outside the US Capitol that the mass atrocities in Gaza are known to the world.
“We need to be out here. We need to say, ‘Not in our name’,” Ippolito told Al Jazeera. “As American citizens, we have to realise that this could not be taking place without our taxpayer dollars sending tonnes of weapons to Israel as it slaughters men, women and children in Gaza.”
She described top US lawmakers as a “bunch of sycophants” for inviting Netanyahu to Congress.
Hamas says speech shows Netanyahu’s lack of interest in a ceasefire
Hamas senior official Sami Abu Zuhri has said that Netanyahu’s remarks demonstrate that he is not interested in ending the war, according to the US news outlet Reuters.
“Netanyahu’s speech was full of lies, and it will not succeed in covering up for the failure and defeat in the face of the resistance,” Abu Zuhri said in comments to the news agency.
He added that the address would also not “cover up for the crimes of the war of genocide his army is committing against the people of Gaza”.
In a statement, Izzat al-Rishq, a member of the Palestinian group’s political bureau, slammed the speech by “the criminal” Netanyahu as “a party of lies”.
