{"id":288672,"date":"2024-06-02T07:27:21","date_gmt":"2024-06-02T07:27:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=288672"},"modified":"2024-06-04T06:51:09","modified_gmt":"2024-06-04T06:51:09","slug":"israeli-prime-minister-benjamin-netanyahu-accepts-invitation-to-address-joint-meeting-of-congress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=288672","title":{"rendered":"Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accepts invitation to address joint meeting of Congress"},"content":{"rendered":"

Annie Grayer \u2013 CNN June 1, 2024<\/strong><\/h1>\n

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has accepted an invitation from US congressional leaders\u00a0to\u00a0address a joint meeting of Congress, his office said in a statement Saturday.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am very moved to have the privilege of representing Israel before both Houses of Congress and to present the truth about our just war against those who seek to destroy us to the representatives of the American people and the entire world,\u201d Netanyahu said.<\/p>\n

The top four US congressional leaders on Friday formally invited Netanyahu to address a joint meeting of Congress.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe join the State of Israel in your struggle against terror, especially as Hamas continues to hold American and Israeli citizens captive and its leaders jeopardize regional stability,\u201d the letter from House Speaker Mike Johnson, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell reads.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor this reason, on behalf of the bipartisan leadership of the United States House of Representatives and the United States Senate, we would like to invite you to address a Joint Meeting of Congress.\u201d<\/p>\n

The letter, which does not provide a date for the address, is signed by the top Democrats and Republicans in the House and Senate.<\/p>\n

The invitation comes\u00a0after much\u00a0speculation<\/a>\u00a0as additional military aid to Israel remains in question and Democrats are facing pressure from their left wing as the party remains divided over Israel\u2019s handling of the war against Hamas.<\/p>\n

President Joe Biden on Friday laid out a three-phase proposal<\/a> Israel has submitted to wind down the grinding crisis in Gaza.<\/p>\n

Claiming that \u201cHamas no longer is capable of carrying out another October 7,\u201d Biden made the argument that Israel has met its stated goals for its operation in Gaza and that the time has\u00a0arrived to stop the fighting as part of a deal to release\u00a0Israeli hostages held by Hamas.<\/p>\n

Less than an hour after Biden detailed the Israeli proposal,\u00a0Netanyahu\u2019s office\u00a0insisted Israel would not end the war until Hamas is defeated and \u201call of its goals are achieved.\u201d<\/p>\n

CNN previously reported that during a closed-door conference meeting in March, House Republicans raised the idea<\/a> of inviting Netanyahu. Following the meeting, Johnson told reporters that \u201cit\u2019s one of the things that we have in mind,\u201d adding that \u201cit\u2019s very important for us to show solidarity and support for Israel right now.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Is the U.S. Congress so beholden to Israel that they can\u2019t see how the rest of the world will see this? With this invitation they are effectively endorsing Netanyahu\u2019s actions in Gaza. Many will now see the U.S. as complicit in the ongoing slaughter <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":288688,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-288672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-Israel_Anti-Semitism_Zionism_and_US-UK_allies"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=288672"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288672\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":288694,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288672\/revisions\/288694"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/288688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=288672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=288672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=288672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}