How do you feel about Bibi Netenahu addressing Congress? Should a Palestinian leader get equal time? Is this just election PR & photo op? Why?

[DrPepper12]

Bibi should address Congress. We are Israel's BFF. We should be honored.

Bibi should NOT address Congress. he's a corrupt, war criminal, genocider. We should be ashamed.

[Anonymous]

“ Bibi should NOT address Congress. he's a corrupt, war criminal, genocider. We should be ashamed.”

Now this is an important note, Israel is America’s ally and the majority of Congress is Republican which means Conservative which means stand with Israel over Muslims in general including those found in Palestine…. This isn’t about elections or whatever, Netanyahu just has a lot of power as an ally of the US. That is at least how I feel.

Civilians directly affected in Palestinian due to Israeli intervention should be given equal time to speak. That would educate & spread information like wildfire.

[DrPepper12]

TY and i agree. K street and AIPAC have WAY too much influence on our policies. Great take!!

[Opinion Owner]

@drpepper12 Thank you, I speak the truth and my honest opinion. Hamas is a terrorist organization that Israel has every right to wipe out HOWEVER by killing innocent children, women, men, etc. and not stopping that is actively genocidal maniac vile behavior that should not be tolerated.

[bobby_bush_eater]

That guy sucks. Israel is the most useless "ally" in the world.

They receive the most foreign aid from the USA by far, and we get what? We trade with them sure but we trade more with China who we openly call an enemy.

The country receiving the #2 most aid from us is Egypt and it's literally all because our Israeli "interests". Why does this tiny country so far away demand and get so much from us?

That prick should be arrested and tried in international court for deliberately bombing civilians.

[DrPepper12]

Well said!

[CupcakeTheDestroyer]

It’s pretty well-known that in the Israel vs Palestine war that Palestine is more popular and liked by the younger generation and seen as the victims in the war. Israel has officially been named an apartheid state by the UN. There’s an expectation of withdrawing support from the US. I suspect this is very much a political stunt to try and distract from that ruling so the US can continue to support the foothold Israel gives them in the middle east.

[DrPepper12]

I don't know. I think we could accomplish maintaining a ally and foothold in the region simply by reducing our weapons sales in diplomatic support contingent on them actually responding to world pressure.

[DeeDeeDeVour]

Palestinian politicians are fueled by Hamas terrorists who are fueled by hateful Iranians.

[DrPepper12]

Don't forget Bibi and Likud. They have also been allowing weapon shipment into the occupied territories from other Arab nations and turning a blind eye to it because he needed it for an election issue

[Skinhead-1979]

Can't say I am surprised about the result... AIPAC and ADL are very successful in keeping the majority of the US public brainwashed.

[DrPepper12]

Yeah while the evangelicals pray for the destruction of israel to bring about final judgement and the rapture. Unreal.

[Skinhead-1979]

Yes, both their Messianic Prophecies centre around the 'Jews', Israelites, returning to the Holy Land... but for different reasons.

The Jews believe their Messiah will restore their society and kingdom back to its former glory; the Evangelists believe that Jesus will come down and smite all the unbelievers, heretics, Jews in some kind of divine retribution.

They are temporary allies; and when the time comes, whenever that may be, they will turn onto each other.

Zionists have always had to 'team up' with others; in the early days they desperately sought some kind of an agreement with a World Power which they eventually signed with Britain. They would have never achieved what they have achieved on their own.

But they also have a habit to 'team up' with the most vocal 'Anti-Semitic' groups, people and political parties...'Anti-Semites' are more likely to give the Zionists what they want than others. It's no secret that they signed agreements with Nazi Germany (Haavara Agreement) and a group like Lehi sought an alliance with Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy to open a front against Britain in the Mandate of Palestine.

[Still-alive]

Lets just say Im totally with the protesters in the capital building over his arrival!

i think Kamala Will totally break from bidens policy and put that evil dictator in his place when she wins!

[DrPepper12]

Maybe not totally but it will certainly get a lot more frosty while serving cold shoulder for state dinners!

[Juxtapose]

Why would we give equal time to Hamas, which is a explicit terrorist organization that wants to genocide all Israelis?

To compare Israel to Hamas is a disgrace. Israel is not genocidal, you are falling for Hamas propaganda.

[Juxtapose]

Hamas will kill you if you are gay, they actively hunt Jewish people for bounties and a rewarded by Hamas for killing Jewish people or Israelis, they hold western journalists hostage, they kill their own people if they squeal in prison, they rape women, videotape it and send it to the families of the victim and also stuff the bodies with explosives so rescue workers will get killed..

They lie about the death tolls and will even count 19-year-old soldiers killed on their side as innocent children.

[Juxtapose]

Screw Hamas and anybody who supports them. I have very severe words for anyone who supports terrorists.

[Caroline91]

It isn't supporting Hamas... There is no question that Hamas needs to be wiped out and Israel has every justification for doing that. No, It is supporting the idea that defenseless women, babies, little children, old people, men who aren't terrorists are in a landlocked place that they can't escape from while Netanyahu carries out a turkey shot. That's genocide.

[Juxtapose]

@Caroline91 they can leave and are given advanced warning prior to bombings. The terrorists hide behind civilians.

[Caroline91]

That is true that the terrorist hide behind civilians. But, when they do leave the area they are told to leave, the area they are told to go to is often then bombed. They cannot get out of Gaza. And, not enough aid has been getting in. People are starving to death. www.npr.org/.../gaza-famine-hunger-war-israel

[Juxtapose]

@Caroline91 NPR is government media which is not to be trusted. They are probably using Hamas numbers just like the United Nations.

Israel has been actually breaking records with how low civilian casualties are in urban warfare.

[DrPepper12]

I never said hamas. Please keep up. I said Palestinian leader. Not once did i compare hamas to Israel.

The question and poll are about bibi; the main idea is Bibi's address to congress. Slow down and read and dont equate all Palestinians with Hamas.

[DrPepper12]

BREATHE!!! No one is supporting Hamas!! We are all well aware of their barbarism.

[DrPepper12]

@Caroline91 TY for that!!! Exactly my point in asking the question!!!

[DrPepper12]

Now THAT is Israeli propaganda!! Advanced warning? They can leave? Where the hell do you source info like that?

[DrPepper12]

"Breaking records" we only killed 234 civilians today, destroyed 108 dwellings and severely maimed 64 kids while all of the above are in an active famine. Some fucking record there...

Oh, and NPR is a national treasure doing journalism that isn't beholden to shareholders.

[Juxtapose]

Palestine authorities ARE Hamas lol 😂

They voted them in, they're complicit. Except for the good ones who oppose Hamas.

The Gaza Strip is ruled by Hamas until Israel wipes them out.

[Caroline91]

@Juxtapose I don't know where you get the idea that NPR is government media... Funding for NPR comes from dues and fees paid by member stations, underwriting from corporate sponsors, and annual grants from the publicly funded Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Most of its member stations are owned by non-profit organizations, including public school districts, colleges, and universities.

[Juxtapose]

@Caroline91

"Uri Berliner, a 25-year-long journalist at National Public Radio (NPR), recently resigned from his job after being suspended because he wrote about the entrenched left-wing/woke mindset at NPR, calling it a “progressive silo.” Berliner’s tell-all confirms what media critics have long known, and reveals why taxpayer funding of the news media is not a good idea."

www.cato.org/.../npr-should-not-be-subsidized-taxpayers

[Juxtapose]

Elon Musk was right.

[Caroline91]

@Juxtapose You have GOT to check the credibility of your information sources. If you follow the source threads from the above link you provided, it leads to connections to libertarian roots, as well as connections to Koch Bros sources. This is so right-leaning as to completely invalidate any information provided in this instance.

[Juxtapose]

@Caroline91 I am practically a libertarian myself being a classical liberal, I respect them. And what's wrong with the right wing? As if leftists don't lie?

[Caroline91]

@Juxtapose I am not claiming leftists don't lie, but neither "side" ever tries to present a more balanced, objective picture, which is my point. In trying to establish the truth, we need to seek the facts, as they, happened, not as they can be manipulated to prove what we want to prove.

[Juxtapose]

@Caroline91 every source is biased in some way. Some more than others but libertarians are good folk.

[Caroline91]

@Juxtapose To some degree, yes. But the goal is to be as unbiased as possible and that is partly done by balancing information sources and using several rather than just 1 or 2. And, I can't say that libertarians aren't good folk! lol Peace?

[Juxtapose]

@Caroline91 someone straight up leaving NPR for those reasons checks out. NPR has been biased and honestly? CNN and MSNBC is state run media itself, likely even more so than NPR. Although.. unofficially.

[Juxtapose]

And also two sides are not equal. That's like saying that in order to logically examine religion, you have to treat religious texts on the same grounds as scientific literature.

[Caroline91]

I think it's all about seeking balance and part of that is giving proper "weight" to things.

[Juxtapose]

@Caroline91 some things don't deserve to have any weight whatsoever. Like the bible, it is pure nonsense.

[Caroline91]

Well, then zero is the weight you are assigning it.

[Juxtapose]

@Caroline91 zero is the absence of weight just like atheism is the absence of theism.

[Caroline91]

@Juxtapose Agreed.

[OtterMan68]

Israel is a dirt-poor country, and it's up the US to give them welfare.

[DrPepper12]

False. They are an advanced tech and service economy.

[OtterMan68]

sarcasm

[gorydetails]

I don't care either way.

[DrPepper12]

Why?

[gorydetails]

Why should I?

[Anonymous]

Both are bad, but Israel>Palestine.

[Fifi86]

He is a terrorist !

[DrPepper12]

No argument here! He has a corrupt boyfriend criminal and terrorist