One can only marvel at an utterly obsequious Congress in it’s kowtowing to Mr, Netanyahu. See Daniel Larison’s essay at The American Conservative for a withering evaluation of that herd of independent minds:
http://www.theamericanconservative.com/larison/the-disgraceful-spectacle-in-congress/
The Hill reports that 56 Democratic members of Congress would not attend the Netanyahu address:
http://thehill.com/homenews/house/232160-whip-list-dems-skipping-netanyahu-speech
Of note also is the fact that Israel has in it’s possession between 100 to 200 nuclear weapons and the means to deliver them, a fact that Mr. Netanyahu failed to mention is his speech. That fact remains a festering open secret, that makes the supposed or even an actual Iranian nuclear program, seem like a rational response to the perceived threat of nuclear imbalance in the region. But that thought is rendered null by the felt notion that ‘we’, the Israelis, can possess nuclear weapons as the experience of the Holocaust makes us wiser custodians of such a destructive potential. While the ‘they’, the Iranians, take the guise of the Soviets of the Old Cold War, as mad men incapable of rational thought or even the exercise of the barest self-interest.
One could also look at the Republicans and Mr. Netanyahu as in the thrall of their own exercise of political nihilism. The Republicans and their obsession with the political destruction of President Obama and Mr. Netanyahu’s Zionism as the interminable final stage that Hannah Arendt sagely warned against:
See this wide ranging essay from Counterpunch by Hammad Said for an outline of the Arendt position and much more.
Relevance of Hannah Arendt’s “A Report On The Banality Of Evil” To Gaza
Also see Edward C. Corrigan’s Jewish Critics of Zionism and of Israel’s Treatment of the Palestinians:
Jewish Critics of Zionism and of Israel’s Treatment of the Palestinians
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