Next
week, on Wednesday, July 24th, Israeli Prime Minister and war criminal Benjamin
Netanyahu is expected to visit Washington, DC, although he has not yet received
a formal invitation. When the Israeli prime minister has traveled to Washington
every year, he’s conveyed a message of closeness and intimacy, unlike the 4
years since his last visit to the White House, something that does not go
unnoticed by friends and enemies.
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Mister Netanyahu | MR OnlineNetanyahu is scheduled to address a special joint
session of Congress and is expected to meet with U.S. President Joe Biden at
the White House, although this has not yet been confirmed. A meeting with the
next U.S. president-in-waiting Donald Trump is also expected to be organized.
When Netanyahu addressed Congress in 2015, then-President Barack Obama was
angered that Netanyahu spoke before Congress against the Iran nuclear deal he
had negotiated and refused to meet with him.
Meanwhile
a national demonstration is being called by a wide range of organizations to
greet the Zionist president by surrounding the U.S. Congress to take a stand
with the Palestinian people and to demand an end to the genocide.
Since
Netanyahu accepted an invitation last month, extended by leaders of both
parties in the U.S. Congress, it sparked a public debate in Israel over whether
he should accept or not, before it was known whether he would receive an
invitation to meet Biden. Arguments against Netanyahu’s acceptance included
that such a visit, initiated by Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson, was not
something that pleased the White House and would only highlight partisan
divisions over Israel. It has emerged that between the Republican National
Convention in Milwaukee and the Democratic National Convention in Chicago on
August 19, experts estimate that there will be those who will accuse Netanyahu
of trying to meddle in American politics, which could strain his relationship
with Biden.
The
last time Netanyahu was in the White House was in September 2020. Donald Trump
was president and the occasion was the signing of the so-called Abraham
Accords. Both Trump and Netanyahu lost elections soon after: Trump in November
2020 and Netanyahu in March 2021.
In
2023, when Biden belatedly invited Netanyahu, as a sign of his disapproval of
the prime minister’s policies, the president was politically strong, having
emerged victorious from the midterm elections, when a forecast of Republican
control in both houses of Congress failed to materialize. On the other hand,
Netanyahu, facing unprecedented popular opposition to his judicial reform plan,
was politically weak.
Now
the dynamic has changed. Both leaders are weak and both face strong calls to
step aside: Biden from within his own party and Netanyahu from a street of
increasingly loud protests. At the same time, Trump, with his superhero image,
cannot go unnoticed by Netanyahu. And it is because both leaders are
politically weak that experts believe that a meeting at the White House could
benefit both:
Netanyahu
will try to reaffirm his capacity as a statesman and Biden will try to
demonstrate his leadership skills and mental acumen.
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