Cheering the dishonest and partisan jabs of Netanyahu and the Republicans destroys the American political consensus that has preserved the Jewish state for 70 years.
By Dana Milbank | The Washington Post | Mar 26, 2019
On Monday, Rep. Mo Brooks (R-Ala.) literally read from Adolf Hitler’s ‘Mein Kampf’ on the House floor and borrowed Hitler’s ‘big lie’ allegation against Jews to use on Democrats. ‘Unconscionable,’ said the Anti-Defamation League. But Republicans, and Netanyahu, said nothing.
The gods were toying with Benjamin Netanyahu and the American Israel Public Affairs Committee.
The Israeli prime minister canceled his Tuesday appearance at the pro-Israel lobbying group’s Washington conference because of violence in Israel, but he attempted a live video address.
“Mr. Prime Minister, can you hear us?”
“I can hear you. I always hear you,” Netanyahu replied.
Then, 11 seconds after the prime minister began, the satellite feed broke up and never completely recovered.
“I returned to deal with the [inaudible],” Netanyahu said.
But whoever or whatever disrupted the feed performed a mitzvah. . . .
Netanyahu’s speech was another knife into the heart of the bipartisan US-Israel alliance. He attacked Democrats, singling out one Muslim member of Congress for remarks that were seen as anti-Semitic, while ignoring the many anti-Semitic remarks by Republicans. And he leveled the scurrilous claim that anyone who opposes AIPAC is anti-Semitic.
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