Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is set to address a joint session of Congress on Wednesday of this week, but it looks like he'll be doing so without much involvement from President Joe Biden or Vice President Kamala Harris. Netanyahu arrived in the country earlier on Monday. Biden, Harris, and Secretary of State Antony Blinken were both absent when he landed.
Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu has arrived in the U.S.
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) July 22, 2024
Neither Biden, Harris, nor Blinken were there to greet him.pic.twitter.com/RI89g8ZyLJ
It is so sad that neither Biden nor Kamala greeted Netanyahu as he arrived in Washington.
— Eyal Yakoby (@EYakoby) July 22, 2024
This sends a message to America’s enemies that US alliances are breakable. This is horrible foreign policy. pic.twitter.com/DrWkWFxVQo
This isn't the only slight from Biden and Harris towards Netanyahu, though. It was recently reported that Biden won't be appearing for a meeting with Netanyahu, per The Times of Israel. Neither Biden nor Harris will be presiding over Netanyahu's address on Wednesday. Retiring Sen. Ben Cardin (D-MD), the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, will preside instead, according to The Hill.
While Biden won't meet with the prime minister, former and potentially future President Donald Trump may do so. POLITICO reported that Netanyahu has requested a meeting with Trump, which has not been ruled out.
Off to quite the start… https://t.co/w3m33NlzpQ
— Chip Roy (@chiproytx) July 22, 2024
Netanyahu's address takes place more than nine months after Hamas terrorists slaughtered 1,200 people, most of them civilians, on October 7. Not even babies or Holocaust suvivors were spared. They also engaged in rape, torture, and kidnapping, with Hamas terrorists taking approximately 250 people hostage. Last week's Republican National Committtee in Milwaukee featured parents of one of the American hostages. Omer Neutra spent his 22nd birthday in captivity, his mother, Orna, revealed last Wednesday.
Many anti-Israel Democrats are expected to boycott the address and hold other programming.
Democrats, meanwhile, are trying to rally around Vice President Kamala Harris' likelihood of becoming the party's nominee. Biden officially withdrew from the race on Sunday and endorsed Harris not long after that. That president has yet to be seen in public since then has raised concerns, though he supposedly called and was put on speaker phone when Harris gave remarks on Monday.
When it comes to the issue of supporting our ally in the Middle East, Democrats have also been in disarray, with many members, including but not limited to those in the Squad, expressing anti-Israel and pro-Hamas sentiments. The Biden administration has become increasingly anti-Israel as the Israel-Hamas war wages on, likely as Democrats worry about winning key swing states like Michigan in November.
There's also supposedly a "risk" should Harris be the nominee and pick Gov. Josh Shapiro (D-PA) as a possible running mate, given that Shapiro is Jewish. Harris has also been called out for being even more radically anti-Israel than Biden.
Kamala Harris is farther left of Joe Biden on the issue of Israel’s right to self defense. She is a Palestinian terror sympathizer who has also just announced her refusal to listen to Netanyahu’s address of Congress this Wednesday.
— Marina Medvin 🇺🇸 (@MarinaMedvin) July 22, 2024
Harris is DANGEROUS for Middle East stability. pic.twitter.com/rKBixzPNO2
Vice President Harris refusing to meet with President Netanyahu is a clear sign of the pro-Hamas, pro-terrorist bias which increasingly permeates the Democratic Party. I watched speakers attack anti-semitism and speakers supporting Israel in the Republican Convention. Both would…
— Newt Gingrich (@newtgingrich) July 22, 2024
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