‘War Criminal’, ‘Guilty in Genocide’

Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib representing Detroit had this to say for Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu when he was addressing the US Congress, Tuesday.

Her image continues to trend, setting with all the other Congressmen and Congresswomen as if this was the most natural thing in the world with signs of “War Criminal” and “Guilty in Genocide” staring Netanyahu in the face.

In protest of Netanyahu’s visit to Congress, activists in Washington dyed multiple fountains around Capitol Hill with red and projections cast demanding the arrest of war criminal Netanyahu.

Tlaib had wrote: “Netanyahu is a war criminal committing genocide against the Palestinian people. It is utterly disgraceful that leaders from both parties have invited him to address Congress. He should be arrested and sent to the International Criminal Court.”

In a statement on her website she clarified: “Since 1948, the US has provided more than $141 billion in weapons to the Israeli government to fund the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians, including $17.9 billion since October.

Netanyahu’s apartheid regime has already slaughtered over 39,000 Palestinians in Gaza, including 15,000 children. Yet my colleagues and the Biden administration continue to approve more funding and send more weapons – even as innocent children like Hind Rajab are targeted with 355 bullets, shot in the heart by Israeli sniper, burned to death in their tents with US-made weapon, bombed while playing at school, deliberately starved to death, and Palestinians are bombed in refugee camps and discovered in mass graves, naked and with their hands tied, all live-streamed for the world to see.

These are undeniably wore crimes under international law.

 Make no mistake: This event is a celebration of the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians. It is a sad day for our democracy when my colleagues will smile for a photo op with a man who is actively committing genocide.

It is hypocritical to claim to be concerned about the massive death toll of innocent civilians, and then turn around and welcome the person responsible for these war crimes to our Capitol. Their silence is betrayal, and history will remember them accordingly.

Our government must stop supporting and funding this genocide now,” Tlaib ends by saying.

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“Disgusting speech, Shameful Session” Netanyahu in Congress  

Secretary-General of the Palestinian National Initiative Dr. Mustafa Barghouti, described Netanyahu’s speech as disgusting in a shameful session of the US Congress, which accepted to host and give a platform to the war criminal Netanyahu, who is committing crimes of genocide, ethnic cleansing, collective punishment and starvation in Gaza as reported in the Jo24.net website.

Barghouti added that the civilization he speaks of led to the martyrdom of 48,000 Palestinians in Gaza, including 17,000 children, amputation of the hands and feet of 1,200 Palestinian children and the displacement of two million Palestinians after the demolition of their homes.

He said: “This is not civilization, but decadence.”

Barghouti said Netanyahu’s speech was full of lies, even surpassing the Nazi propagandist Goebbels, especially when he claimed that Israel was delivering aid to the residents of the Gaza Strip while the whole world know that is a lie.

“Unfortunately, the US Congress witnessed a disgusting speech by Netanyahu in a shameful session in support of a war criminal, which was boycotted by honorable American representatives who are not subject to the Israeli lobby’s money, and thousands of supporters of the Palestinian struggle demonstrated against it, including thousands of American Jewish protesters who refuse to support Israel with weapons and who call for the freedom of Palestine.”

Barghouti pointed out Netanyahu has made himself and Israel a symbol of reactionism, fundamentalist racism, and a barbaric colonial mentality, and has practiced dangerous propaganda to spread Islamophobia.

Barghouti warned of the danger of Netanyahu’s plan of what he call “the next day for Gaza,” which includes “continuing the aggression against Gaza, maintaining the Israeli occupation there, establishing an entity that is an agent of the occupation…and continuing to use normalization with Arab countries to liquidate the Palestinian issue and restructure Palestinian consciousness to submit to the occupation.”

Barghouti stressed confronting Netanyahu’s vision would be through the rapid implementation of what was stated in the Beijing Declaration, especially the formation of a national reconciliation government that would foil Netanyahu’s tricks and plans and consolidate the unity of the West Bank, Gaza Strip and Jerusalem,” he concluded.

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US Senator Bernie Sanders: “Netanyahu is a War Criminal’

US Democratic Senator Nancy Pelosi described Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Wednesday speech as “by far the worst presentation of any foreign dignitary” ever at US Congress according to Al Quds News Network.

“Benjamin Netanyahu’s presentation in the House Chamber today was by far the worst presentation of any foreign dignitary invited and honored with the privilege of addressing the Congress of the United States,” she wrote on X.

US Senator Bernie Sanders also called Netanyahu a “war criminal” and a “liar” following his speech, accusing him of coming “to Congress to campaign.”

On Wednesday, Netanyahu delivered his fourth address to the Congress, as he attempted to drum up continued support for the genocide war in Gaza.

As US legislators clapped for Netanyahu during his speech, activists outside called for him to be tried for abuses linked to Israel’s war in Gaza.

Many activists said that Netanyahu is a war criminal who belongs in jail, not in the halls of Congress.

The demonstrators held effigies of a blood-stained Netanyahu, waved Palestinian flags and chanted “free Palestine” as the Israeli prime minister spoke.

Dozens of lawmakers boycotted Netanyahu’s address, echoing concerns voiced by the demonstrators according to the Quds News Network.

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Rep Jamaal Bowman ‘Disgusted’ at Netanyahu

United States Congressman Jamaal Bowman of New York says:

“I am disgusted that we are allowing the man (Benjamin Netanyahu) who is responsible for ripping families apart and killing Israeli and Palestinian civilians to be given a platform before Congress to try and win support and funding for his indiscriminate bombing campaign.”

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400 Activists ‘Crash Gate’ US Congress to Stop Netanyahu From Speaking

CROSSFIREARABIA – About 400 Jewish-American activists are currently, Tuesday, inside one of the buildings of the US Congress in Capitol Hill protesting the visit of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to Washington.

Netanyahu is said to address both houses of Congress in a joint session on Wednesday. Already some Congressmen like Bernie Sanders said they would be boycotting the affair.

The activists want the US to stop arming Israel to carry on with its genocidal war in Gaza that is now in its 10th month.

With banners like “Let Gaza Live”  and “Jews Say Stop Arming Israel”, the activists are making their voices heard by chanting “free Palestine”, “not in our name” and “stop the genocide.”

They are being surrounded by a Capitol police force contingent.

Meanwhile Palestinian-American lawmaker Rashida Tlaib slammed Netanyahu’s visit as “utterly disgraceful”.

“Netanyahu is a war criminal committing genocide against the Palestinian people. It is utterly disgraceful that leaders from both parties have invited him to address Congress.

“He should be arrested and sent to the International Criminal Court,” she said according to Anadolu.

Tlaib said said the US has provided more than $141 billion in weapons to Israel to “fund the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians” since 1948, including $17.9 billion since October according to the Turkish news agency.

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