Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday addressed a joint session of the US Congress amid the war with Hamas in Gaza and rising tensions in the North. This is the tenth address of an Israeli Prime Minister to Congress and Netanyahu’s fourth, surpassing British Prime Minister Winston Churchill for the most by a single foreign leader.
“We meet today at a crossroads of history. Our world is in upheaval. In the Middle East, Iran’s axis of terror confronts America, Israel and our Arab friends. This is not a clash of civilizations. It’s a clash between barbarism and civilization. It’s a clash between those who glorify death and those who sanctify life.
For the forces of civilization to triumph, America and Israel must stand together. Because when we stand together, something very simple happens. We win. They lose.
And my friends, I came to assure you today of one thing: we will win.”
Netanyahu speech was a historic message to America and the world at such a time of severe upheaval and chaos. His delivery broke the record of standing ovations for a foreign leader in Congress, receiving 58 standing ovations during his speech, breaking the previous record of 28 in 2015.
Acknowledged overall and in the audience were October 7 survivors, families of hostages, and IDF heroes. Netanyahu also voiced a message for the anti-Israel protesters outside the building: “When the tyrants of Tehran who hang gays from cranes and murder women for not covering their hair praise, promote, and fund you, you become Iran’s useful idiots.”
We like Daniel Greenfield’s review of Netanyahu’s speech. He states that the Prime Minister’s words were “meant to remind Americans of what Israel, and we, are fighting for. The choice between good and evil is all too clear. All that remains is to make it.”
Sources:
PM Netanyahu’s Address to a Joint Meeting of the US Congress, Prime Minister’s Office, July 24, 2024
Netanyahu Defends America Before Congress, by Daniel Greenfield/Frontpage Magazine, July 25, 2024