2024-07-29 03:38:35
“Our enemies “They are their enemies,” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a fiery speech before the United States Congressin which he defended the guerra in Gazarated Iran of “axis of terror” and advocated deradicalizing the Palestinian enclave.
For his fourth speech before the Congressa record for a foreign leader, Netanyahu was welcomed among applause y cheers of Republican lawmakers standing, while the Democratsdissatisfied with his handling of the war in Gaza, remained seated.
“For the forces of civilization to triumph, the United States and Israel must remain united,” he said. Netanyahu, whose arrival at Washington made a big fuss.
Near Congress thousands of protesters demonstrated, some of them with Palestinian flags, and inside the House of Representatives Five people were arrested for “disrupting” the speech, Capitol Police wrote in X.
The leader called the pro-Iran protesters “useful idiots of Iran” and estimated that his country, USA and the Arab world are threatened by the “axis of terror” of the Islamic Republic.
“This is not a clash of civilizations. “It is a clash between barbarism and civilization,” he said. “Our enemies are their enemies, our fight is their fight and our victory will be their victory,” he insisted to the congressmen.
He took advantage of the speech to try to put pressure on his main ally, with whom he maintains tense relations after more than nine months of war in Gaza vs Hamas.
The conflict erupted on October 7 with the Hamas attack, in which Islamist commandos killed 1,197 people and kidnapped another 251, according to Israeli data.
The Israeli retaliatory offensive has left more than 39,000 dead in Gaza, according to the Ministry of Health of the territory governed by Hamas.
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