It’s America, stupid!
It’s been five days since the Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu addressed the US Congress in Washington DC. What a grotesque show!
Increasingly isolated figure at home and internationally, Mr Netanyahu was cheered like a national American hero on its fourth address to the US Congress, the most of any foreign leader. Mr Netanyahu proved to be an American political ruthless beast: clinch fist, perfect American accent on a fearless speech and a statesman stance. The only problem is that this direct engagement with American politics as become too noisy.
Mr Netanyahu political survival profits directly from an American bipartisan balance: both Republicans and Democrats unequivocally defend Israel “right to exist” and are constantly encouraged (and even pampered) by the Israeli lobby to do so. But the 40.000 or more Palestinian dead souls and the rising of American people voices against the bloodshed in Gaza are shadowing the corridors of power. After 10 months of ongoing massacres it’s next to impossible to ignore, even for the most corrupted. The absence of some Democratic Party politicians on Mr Netanyahu speech is proof of a dissent on the Israel-US relationship.
In the meantime, back at home, Mr Netanyahu was being criticised. Some say he was escaping on a vanity tour avoiding the hard work of pushing the country for an internal solution on its present war and on a broader context that the whole world is eager for.
Besides the dramatic expense of human lives, Congress clapping comes at a high cost on: weakening institutions such has the ICC and the ICJ, fractioning of the International Law and absolute annihilation of American people’s voice from the equation.
More than 40,000 Palestinians are expected to have been killed since the start of the Israeli military offensive in Gaza
At a point in his speech, Mr Netanyahu tired of being interrupted by the clapping on every single sentence plead the congressmen for some silence, “let me finish!” he said. Theatricals and arrogance on a tasteless full display.
Israeli and US politics are intertwined on a legalised yet utterly immoral traffic of influence.
It was so hard to watch, not because of Mr Netanyahu lies nor human life disregard, not even for the cheering of the spineless congressmen - I wouldn’t expect anything other than that, to be honest - but for the absolute confirmation that the politics strategy in America is to deceive the public. America lies and Americans are being lied to and that is tearing the rest of us - the world - apart.