Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivered a fiery and combative speech to US senators and the House of Representatives last week. The head of state of Israel called for a “total victory” in Gaza to the applause of the Republican camp. There was no question of the man nicknamed “Bibi” changing his line: his speech was hard-line and free of self-criticism. “Netanyahu has sought to use Congress to burnish his flagging political image,” commented the New York Times.
Despite the applause that Benjamin Netanyahu received in front of Congress, his speech was criticized in Israel for not offering any hope of a possible agreement on the release of the 111 hostages held by Hamas.
The English Green Party, through the MP for North Herefordshire Ellie Chowns, criticized the congressional applause for Netanyahu’s speech.
“Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is a war criminal who should be standing trial in The Hague, not applauded by the US Congress,” she said.
Benyamin Netanyahu had come to Washington seeking an audience that he can no longer dream of in his own country, as in many others, because of the particularly bloody and destructive war that Israel is waging in Gaza after the massacres of Israeli civilians perpetrated by the Palestinian Hamas on October 7, 2023.
During their meeting in the Oval Office of the White House, Joe Biden asked Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to work to conclude a ceasefire “quickly”, in the 10th month of the war in the Gaza Strip.
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