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How Washington has changed since Watergate
It was President Richard Nixon’s decision, which he announced on August 8, 1974, to leave office. But he had little choice. There was near-total agreement in both parties that he had committed some (or all) of what he was accused of: abuse of power, obstruction of justice, and contempt of Congress.
Fifty years later, would the same thing happen in today’s political climate?
“I really find it hard to believe that Nixon would’ve resigned in an environment like the one we have today,” said Brian Rosenwald. As a lecturer about conservative politics at the University of Pennsylvania, Rosenwald has thought about the what-ifs of the Watergate scandal. Nixon, he said, “would have dug in. He would have had enough support to avoid conviction”.
Up until the very end, Nixon was dug in. The day before he relented, the front page of the Washington Post read, “Nixon Says He Won’t Resign.”
But unlike what we might expect today, Nixon’s party had abandoned him. On August 7, 1974, Senator Barry Goldwater (who had been the last GOP presidential nominee before Nixon) and Republican leaders in Congress visited the White House. Goldwater told reporters outside, “Whatever decision he makes, it will be in the best interests of our country. … There’s been no decision made. We were merely there to offer what we see as the condition on both floors.”
The condition was dire. Republican Congressman John Rhodes said, “Impeachment is really a foregone conclusion.”
The majority of Republicans were likely to vote to impeach Nixon in the House, and there weren’t enough Republican Senators to block his conviction in the Senate.
A day after the meeting, Nixon’s decision led to the iconic Washington Post headline: “Nixon Resigns.”
In the fifty years since that announcement, that White House visit by leaders of the president’s own party telling him his time was over may tell us less about what was happening then, then it tells us about what is happening in our politics now.
“In our modern era, where we’re so cynical about our politics, it’s almost impossible to capture how different the political landscape was in ’72, ’73, ’74,” said Garrett Graff, the author of “Watergate: A New History.” “Even Democrats trust Nixon, because they say, ‘The President would never lie to the American people. We can’t impeach the President. He’s the President! If he is saying he’s not involved in Watergate, he’s telling us the truth.’”
For in August 1973, Nixon told the American people, “I had no prior knowledge of the Watergate break-in.”
No prior knowledge, perhaps … but Nixon had been involved in the cover-up after the burglary and wiretapping of the Democratic National Committee Headquarters, abusing his powers to obstruct the investigation, and defying Congressional subpoenas for evidence.
Proof came from one of the bombshell moments in the Senate Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities’ Watergate hearings, when it was revealed by former Nixon aide Alexander Butterfield that there were recording devices in the Oval Office. On one of the tapes: direct evidence against the president.
Graff said, “What comes out is this ‘smoking pistol’ tape, from June 23, 1972, in which Nixon is heard saying, ‘They should call the FBI in and say that we wish for the country, don’t go any further into this case, period.’ It is a recording from the first day that Richard Nixon is back in the White House after the Watergate break-in. And it effectively shows that Nixon was part of the cover-up from the earliest hours.
“Watergate is a story of incredible corruption and criminality,” Graff said. “But to me, it’s actually an incredibly inspirational story of how our system works, and the incredible ballet of checks and balances written into our Constitution. Every institution in Washington had to come together to play a special, and important, and unique role.”
Asked what was a basic shared norm that they believed in in 1974, Graff replied, “Everyone agreed, at that moment, Richard Nixon was not above the law.”
That agreement could be reached because politicians weren’t attached to their parties the way they are today.
Sen. Howard Baker of Tennessee, the top Republican on the Watergate committee, probed for the truth. He didn’t erect obstacles to protect his party’s president, famously asking, “What did the president know and when did he first know it?”
Rosenwald said, “Our electoral politics have changed. In the last half-century we’ve become much more geographically polarized, which means red states and blue states. And the way that manifests today is the most important election for most people are primaries, because that’s the place they can lose. And who shows up for primaries? It is the people consuming ideological media. They’re engaged, and they’re usually far right or far left.”
In Nixon’s day, lawmakers answered to an electorate where voters consumed the same information. Eighty-five percent of U.S. households watched some portion of the Watergate hearings, which featured White House counsel John Dean exclaiming, “I began by telling the president that there was a cancer growing on the presidency.”
“Nixon didn’t think that he was committing crime,” said Graff. “He thought he was the law-and-order president.”
Nixon may have believed it, but there was no pro-Nixon media apparatus to feed that alternative reality to the public during the 784 days between break-in and resignation.
“I don’t think we could see a moment like that happen [today],” Graff said, “because of the media environment. The poisoned information ecosystem that politics now exists in is all but inescapable. If Richard Nixon had Fox News in 1974, he would’ve survived.”
Rosenwald imagines how the political and media developments of our world today would have played out 50 years ago, in response to a “smoking gun” White House tape: “They would’ve said, ‘They’re just getting rid of our guys. They’re getting rid of our champions.’ They would have pointed at all kinds of malfeasance from Democrats and said, ‘Oh, look at those guys still serving, nobody ran them out of office.’ And they would’ve pointed at the media and said, ‘And they did nothing about it. They are out to get you. They hate you.’ And then basically said, ‘Whose side are you on? Are you on the side of your enemy, or are you on the side of your guys?’ Nixon might not be perfect but all of a sudden he’s ‘our guy.’”
“He’s our guy” may capture best the modern instances where lawmakers put party above all else. Though that instinct did not prevail when Democratic leaders convinced Joe Biden to abandon his campaign, it did rule with Donald Trump, when the moral stakes were at Watergate levels.
Just days after the January 6th attack on the Capitol, Republican leaders accused the president of their party of breaking his oath. In a recording made public a year later, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy spoke to his colleague, Republican Congresswoman Liz Cheney, about an impeachment resolution, telling her, “The only discussion I would have with [Trump] is that I think this will pass, and it would be my recommendation you should resign.” And on February 13 [after Trump had already left office], Minority Leader Mitch McConnell told the Senate, “There is no question, none, that President Trump is practically and morally responsible for provoking the events of that day.”
But in the end, there was no White House visit from leaders in Trump’s party. And in 2024, McCarthy has endorsed Trump for president, as McConnell has.
Fifty years after Watergate, the question is not whether a tough-love visit by members of a president’s party is possible. It is. What’s changed is what motivates the lawmakers willing to take the walk.
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Story produced by Reid Orvedahl. Editor: Ed Givnish.
WA wildfires latest: Tracking smoke and scorched acres
The Miners Complex fires, Pioneer Fire, and Easy Fire are on our radars.
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The Pacific Northwest faces a multitude of major fires, blanketing the region in smoke and evacuation notices.
More than 1 million acres have burned in Oregon and in Washington, Governor Jay Inslee issued an emergency proclamation for the state Friday
There are 32 major fires across Oregon and Washington that are less than 99% contained as of Sunday morning, according to a Northwest Interagency Coordination Center report.
Over 9,000 people are under an evacuation notice in Oregon, with an estimated 1,251 people under a level three notice that advises residents to leave the area immediately, according to the Oregon Office of Emergency Management.
Here’s what you need to know about some of the major fires in the Pacific Northwest.
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Durkee Fire
The Durkee Fire has burned just under 295,000 acres in eastern Oregon and is 80% contained as of Sunday morning, according to the NICC report. The nearby Cow Valley fire is 99% contained after burning 133,490 acres.
The Thompson Fire continues to burn to the northeast of the Durkee Fire. It has singed over 31,000 acres and is 65% contained, according to the Oregonian’s wildfire tracker.
Falls Fire
The Falls Fire has burned over 145,000 acres in the heart of Oregon. The fire is flanked to the east by the Telephone Fire, which has burned over 50,000 acres.
The combined fires have put over 2,300 people under an evacuation notice, with about 1,700 of those residents under a level-two or level-three notice.
Monkey Creek Fire
The Monkey Creek Fire near the Oregon-Washington border has burned 113,902 in over three weeks. It is 32% contained as of Sunday morning, according to the Oregon OEM.
Over 2,800 people are under evacuation notices caused by the Monkey Creek and surrounding fires.
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Washington fires
The Pioneer Fire has blazed in Washington for just under two months in, charring 35,477 acres in the north of the state. It is 12% contained as of Sunday morning and threatening structures, according to the NICC.
The Swawilla I Fire has burned 53,403 acres in the northeast of the state. It is 85% contained as of Sunday morning.
The Retreat Fire in the southern half of Washington has burned nearly 41,000 acres and is 40% contained as of Sunday morning.
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Washington state wildfire burning near border visible from Osoyoos – Okanagan | Globalnews.ca
A wildfire burning in Washington state near the Canada-U.S. border is visible from Osoyoos, B.C.
According to the U.S. Wildfire Service, the Sunset Ridge Road fire is sized at 160 acres and is located around 11 km southeast of the Osoyoos border crossing.
As the crow flies, it’s also four km south of the border and eight km east of Oroville.
Discovered Saturday morning, the blaze had sparked a Level 3 advisory (leave now), but that was downgraded to Level 1 (be ready) in the afternoon.
Helicopters and ground crews are battling the blaze.
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The BC Wildfire Service says smoke from that fire is visible in Osoyoos, Anarchist Mountain, and those travelling along Highway 3 and surrounding areas.
“The Washington State Department of Natural Resources is responding,” it said, “and the BC Wildfire Service will continue monitoring.”
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After failing to achieve his military objectives, the indicted war criminal travelled to the US to incite a war against Iran and prolong his genocidal campaign in Gaza
The first US response to the double assassinations this week in Beirut and Tehran came from Secretary of Defence Lloyd Austin on 31 July.
In the wake of Israel’s targeted killing of Hamas political bureau head Ismail Haniyeh in Iran and Hezbollah’s top military commander Fuad Shukr in Lebanon, Austin reiterated the US’s “unwavering support” for Israel and pledged to come to its defence if attacked.
As Israel ramps up its military provocations, it is now more apparent than ever that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s bellicose address in Congress last week was the opening salvo of a wider regional war – to the rapturous applause of US lawmakers.
Indeed, in the days before and after Netanyahu’s visit to Washington, the Israeli regime attacked and killed scores of civilians in Hodeidah port in Yemen, Majdal Shams in the Israeli-occupied Syrian Golan Heights and the southern Dahiya neighbourhood of Beirut in Lebanon, and crossed a new threshold by assassinating Haniyeh in Tehran.
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This escalation has taken place as Palestinians mark 300 days of Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza, in which at least 50,000 people were killed or buried beneath the rubble and more than 100,000 injured.
Over the past week, many observers have speculated that Netanyahu’s congressional address and his subsequent meetings with President Joe Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris, Donald Trump and other US officials gave him the green light to continue Israel’s rampage unabated.
In Congress, Netanyahu stated his objectives for an all-out war in no uncertain terms
Regardless, however, of what was spoken behind closed doors, Netanyahu stated his objectives for an all-out war in no uncertain terms.
The indicted war criminal, who has failed to achieve his military objectives in Gaza, arrived in Washington to drum up war against Iran and prolong his genocidal campaign against the Palestinians.
So if Netanyahu took advantage of his visit to expand the war – the disastrous results of which the world had already seen this week – then why was he invited to Washington in the first place?
What lies did the aspiring regional hegemon tell Congress to sell his devious plans, and how did he get away with it?
Saving face
The congressional address on 24 July was Netanyahu’s first international trip since he waged his genocidal campaign in Gaza last October.
Even though the Israeli prime minister was indicted on several corruption charges by his own Zionist regime and is facing arrest for war crimes and crimes against humanity by the International Criminal Court (ICC), US congressional leaders extended an invitation to him anyway.
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This was an “honour” not even afforded to the British imperialist statesman and one of the iconic leaders of World War Two, Winston Churchill, who addressed the US Congress three times during his tenure (in 1941, 1943 and 1952).
Remarkably, all of the invitations to the belligerent Israeli prime minister were extended by Republican House Speakers during the terms of Democratic presidents, namely Bill Clinton in 1996, Barack Obama in 2011 and 2015 and Joe Biden in 2024.
Each occasion was a sinister Republican attempt to showcase their pro-Israel fidelity for political gain against their Democratic rivals.
During his last address at the United Nations General Assembly in September 2023, Netanyahu boasted about Israel’s perceived invincibility and its pivotal role as the anchor for the region’s security, stability and economic prosperity.
In the UN speech, he had entirely erased Palestinians and their plight as he held up a map in which Israel was drawn up to include all of the territories of historic Palestine.
A line was drawn that extended from India through the Persian Gulf, the UAE, Saudi Arabia and Jordan to the port of Haifa in Israel and from there to Europe. Dubbing it the India-Middle East-Europe Economic Corridor (Imec), Netanyahu bragged that Israel would play a central role in this new geopolitical structure. But the whole scheme may unravel in the aftermath of the Hamas October attacks.
Unable to achieve any of his military and political objectives after waging an all-out genocidal war in Gaza, Netanyahu is in trouble not only at home but also internationally because of his conduct in the war. The world is no longer able to look away. As the mass murder reaches unprecedented numbers, as some estimates say, the total number of victims could reach as many as a staggering 186,000 dead.
That’s almost eight percent of Gaza’s population, with over 70 percent of the victims being women and children.
By comparison, one of the worst civilian atrocities during the Second World War was carried out by the Allies against the German city of Dresden in 1945. It resulted in about 30,000 dead out of 1.2 million, or less than three percent of its population.
In the 55-minute speech, Netanyahu was applauded almost 80 times by some servile members of Congress, who seemed to be hanging on his every word (exceeding the previous record of 58 applauds in 2015).
While half of the Democratic members of both chambers of Congress boycotted the speech, including prominent congressional leaders (131 boycotting versus 128 attending), only one Republican congressman shunned the event, Representative Thomas Massie of Kentucky (out of 268 Republican House members and senators).
Netanyahu’s performance was pathetic and full of flagrant lies and hubris on many levels. It was not lost that he was trying to resemble what US presidents usually do during their annual State of the Union addresses. He flaunted several Israeli soldiers and former hostages, sharing fabricated tales of valour amid one of the most humiliating and humbling days in the history of the Zionist regime.
He claimed to have freed or reclaimed 135 captives and dead bodies, disguising the fact that only five were freed through military operations. Many more, in fact, were killed either by Israel’s bombing of Gaza or by Israeli soldiers during failed rescue attempts.
Meanwhile, 110 of the captives were released last November through a negotiated deal, which had been offered by the Palestinian resistance in the early days of the conflict.
Needless to say, had Netanyahu been serious about a deal to free the captives, he would not have killed the chief Palestinian negotiator this week.
He did not acknowledge the fact that no other deal to free the remaining Israeli captives has been reached due to his continuous refusal to end the war or withdraw from Gaza as demanded not only by the Palestinians but also by UN Security Council resolution 2728 of last March, as well as the UN General Assembly resolution of last December.
Doing so could result in him being held accountable for the 7 October attacks, triggering new elections and his possible ouster in disgrace as prime minister.
Netanyahu has also vehemently rejected all rulings by the International Court of Justice (ICJ), issued in January, March and May, to stop the genocidal war, as well as the ICJ advisory opinion issued in July regarding the illegality of the Israeli occupation of Gaza, the West Bank and East Jerusalem, and the demand to end it.
Third-rate con artist
Netanyahu tried to demonstrate strength and resolve by declaring that he would not stop the war unless achieving what he called “total victory.”
He defined that term as total Hamas surrendering in defeat, supplanting their rule in Gaza with collaborators or compliant Palestinians, and freeing all the Israeli captives without any prisoner exchange.
These demands did not take into account the realities on the ground, where his army has failed miserably to achieve a military victory after 10 months of wreaking havoc on Gaza’s civilian population and causing massive destruction to the strip.
Netanyahu used bait-and-switch tactics before riveted members of Congress who acted like extras in a poorly scripted play featuring a third-rate con artist
In fact, Netanyahu used bait-and-switch tactics before riveted members of Congress who acted like extras in a poorly scripted play featuring a third-rate con artist.
He started his speech by invoking the 9/11 tragedy, saying what happened on 7 October was the equivalent of 29 9/11s when adjusted to the US population. What went unsaid is that what has happened to Palestinians in Gaza since October is equivalent to 2,900 9/11s when adjusting to the population. In other words, what Netanyahu and his army have done in Gaza is equivalent to killing 7.5 million Americans, injuring 22 million Americans, and destroying all American civilian life and infrastructure.
Perhaps one of his most blatant lies was to assert that his invasion of Rafah last May, while killing “1,203” resistance fighters, “accidentally” caused a few civilian casualties.
Ordinary observers would have to suspend their mental faculties or live in an alternate universe to believe such nonsense.
As the images of thousands of women, children and civilian body parts are shown every day before the whole world, only puppets and stooges masquerading as members of Congress would enable an unhinged certified liar to make fools out of them as they applaud him in unison.
One of the most pathetic moments of this spectacle was when Netanyahu stopped them from applauding until he reached his punch line. They acquiesced immediately.
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Netanyahu had the audacity to talk about the “sanctity of life” upheld by the Israelis and the “culture of death” by Muslims.
Such proclamations come from a genocidal maniac who is prosecuting a war that UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said has caused suffering on an “unprecedented” level – the worst he’s seen in his seven-year tenure – which has claimed tens of thousands of lives in the tiny enclave, displaced 85 percent of its population and rendered Gaza uninhabitable.
For months, Netanyahu prevented all aid from entering the Gaza Strip, including food and medicine to over two million people, prompting famine, starvation and communicable diseases.
He claimed, against uncontroverted evidence, that Israel never prevented essential aid of food and medicine from entering the doomed Gaza Strip and that 40,000 aid trucks have entered Gaza since last October.
But what he failed to mention was that, according to the United Nations, the number of trucks that used to enter Gaza before he imposed his total blockade was 500 per day, which were less than the needed supplies for a land-locked strip blockaded by the Zionist regime since 2007.
This means that out of a minimum of 150,000 truckloads that should have been allowed since Israel waged its war on Gaza, less than 27 percent of the needs had been delivered.
Adding to this is the loss of the entire agricultural and industrial production and the cutting off of electricity and energy supplies, creating a situation in Gaza that is nothing short of catastrophic.
All of these facts were omitted in the fairytale Netanyahu presented. He also continued to peddle the lie that Hamas was stealing the humanitarian aid, a charge that UN officials have already rejected. And, of course, his own army and extremist settlers have been blocking supply trucks and attacking aid workers for months.
Political theatre
Netanyahu’s congressional address was an act of shameless theatre set up by the Israeli leader himself and his cronies in the US, who are backed by the Israel lobby, primarily the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (Aipac).
Its main goal was to send an image of a strong and defiant leader to a sceptical and shaken Israeli public.
If anything, the havoc and hell Netanyahu has been inflicting on Gaza over the past 10 months could not have happened without unprecedented US support
With no political and military achievements in Gaza to his name or any willingness to change course, Netanyahu instead has been trying to escalate the conflict and drag the US into a regional war.
However, the US has repeatedly claimed that it is trying to avoid this Middle East conflagration at all costs since it would disrupt its global responsibilities and derail its geopolitical strategies. It could also result in an overwhelming Democratic defeat in the November elections.
Netanyahu claimed that the US needs to give Israel the “tools needed to finish the job”, insinuating that the US administration has been withholding the arms that Israel seeks. It is, of course, a false charge designed to divert blame for his lack of victory, let alone the “total victory” he’s been advocating.
If anything, the havoc and hell he has been inflicting on Gaza over the past 10 months could not have happened without unprecedented American support.
Such aid by the US and its western allies for Israel’s war against defenceless Palestinians included massive armaments that exceeded in total the destructive value of five Hiroshima-size bombs – including “smart” bombs, artillery shells, missiles, fighter jets – in addition to intelligence services, massive economic aid, diplomatic protection, political cover and the support of a compliant mainstream media and elite political class.
Citing the US arming its allies during World War Two as an example, Netanyahu claimed that the faster the Zionist regime could receive arms, the faster it could finish the job.
What he didn’t say was that the Allies could not finish the job with US weapons alone. They needed the massive US army to fight alongside them, resulting in the eventual loss of more than 400,000 American soldiers.
Beating the war drums
Netanyahu spent about a third of his speech beating the drums of war against Iran.
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He claimed that Iran was responsible for all of Israel’s troubles – not its occupation of Palestine, its denial of Palestinian rights or its construction of illegal settlements on stolen Palestinian lands. Israel’s policies of dehumanisation and dispossession of the Palestinians, the Judaisation of Muslim holy sanctuaries and daily incursions of Palestinian towns, villages and camps, assassinating hundreds and detaining thousands of Palestinians are also not to blame.
This record, detailed in the recent ICJ ruling a few weeks ago, was expediently dismissed in Netanyahu’s speech as he condemned the ICJ and ICC rulings to yet more cheers from his audience.
Such condemnations not only ignore facts that are overwhelmingly recognised globally but also significantly undermine the rules-based order the US has been allegedly trying to enforce for decades.
Netanyahu brazenly carried on with his lies by claiming that the Israeli army was the most moral army in history. In fact, his army has been perpetrating the worst war crimes record since World War Two, according to the top European diplomat Josep Borrell.
In fact, because of the conduct of this most immoral army in decades, the ICC prosecutor has called for his indictment and arrest along with his partner in crime, Defence Minister Yoav Gallant.
“Israel’s enemies are the US’s enemies,” Netanyahu asserted, making his objective very clear: to incite against Iran and implore American policymakers to support or even wage a US war against Iran. He also called for the creation of a regional coalition that he dubbed the “Abraham Alliance”. It would include America’s Arab allies that would join Israel’s dangerous war against Iran and its allies in the resistance axis.
If the US lost thousands of lives, trillions of dollars, and suffered a tarnished reputation and a geopolitical setback in Iraq, how much will it lose to an even more devastating war with Iran?
This agitation was reminiscent of the rhetoric used over two decades ago against Saddam Hussein’s Iraq, now resurrected to drum a war against Iran.
Given Israel’s recent attacks on Yemen, Syria, Lebanon and Iran, it seems that Netanyahu’s plan has already been set in motion.
In contradiction to its own stated interest of not expanding the war into a wider conflict, the US continues to be dragged further into Israel’s war.
Following the assassinations and expected retaliation by Hezbollah and Iran, the US deployed 12 warships in the Mediterranean and the Persian Gulf on Thursday. It also follows the US and its western and Arab allies bailing out Israel during Iran’s retaliatory strikes in April.
If the US lost thousands of lives, trillions of dollars and suffered a tarnished reputation and a geopolitical setback in Iraq, how much will it lose to an even more devastating war with Iran?
The degree of such Zionist hubris is breathtaking.
‘Useful idiots’
For many Americans, perhaps the most insulting claim in a stream of falsehoods was Netanyahu’s sensationalist and totally baseless assertion that the massive anti-genocide protests across US cities and college campuses were instigated and paid for by Iran.
Despite there being no evidence to support this outrageous charge, members of Congress applauded him, while making a mockery of the sacred First Amendment protections, constitutional rights and rich tradition of campus anti-war activism and dissent.
In 2007, American academics John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt argued in their book, The Israel Lobby and American Foreign Policy, that the only plausible explanation for the US’s calamitous policy in the Middle East and the submission of many American politicians to Israeli policies and interests, which often contravene America’s strategic interests and stated principles, is the grip the Israel lobby, led by Aipac, has over US politicians.
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Years earlier, in 1992, American author and former presidential candidate Pat Buchanan condemned “Israel and its Amen Corner” as he referred to American politicians under Aipac’s influence. He further described Congress as “Israeli-occupied territories”.
After more than 30 years, the circus displayed last Wednesday afternoon had all but confirmed those strong words. The physical military Israeli occupation may be in Palestine, but there is arguably one of a different nature on Capitol Hill as well.
While the US’s imperialist designs and other military interests contribute to this support, the blind enthusiastic reception of a war criminal and one of the most hawkish Israeli leaders by US politicians signals the impact of the lobby, which has also long advocated for war against Iran.
Within a week of Netanyahu’s address, some US politicians are openly calling for US involvement in Netanyahu’s hegemonic war.
During a phone call with the Israeli prime minister, Biden once again reaffirmed his support for Israel while pledging to continue to support and defend the Zionist regime. Meanwhile, Republican Senator Lindsey Graham introduced a war powers bill on Thursday that called for a direct US attack on Iran while further urging Israel to bomb Iranian oil refineries during a Fox News appearance.
While Netanyahu insulted countless Americans who are vehemently protesting his war of genocide and ethnic cleansing in Gaza – and his attempt at regional supremacy – as “useful idiots”, it turned out that the useful idiots were not outside the halls of Congress but enthusiastically celebrating their master in the People’s House.
The views expressed in this article belong to the author and do not necessarily reflect the editorial policy of Middle East Eye.
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