Monday, July 29, 2024

Op-ed:
The Statesman's Address to Congress
By: Diane Sori / The Patriot Factor / Right Side Patriots / Right Side Patriots Radio
The Op-ed posted here is this authors opinion alone,and does not necessarily represent the views of blogspot.com or Google.  
 
Three thousand Hamas terrorists butchered 1,200 people from 41 countries, including 39 Americans. Proportionally, compared to our population size, that's like 20-9/11s in one day.”*
 - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on the October 7th Hamas attack.

While Joe Biden was preparing for his what in reality appeared to be a farewell speech to the nation, Kamala Harris declined to preside over a special joint address to Congress...which is a part of her official job description as vice-president. Saying that she had a previous speaking engagement in Indianapolis, Indiana...as in to give a speech at what was a five-day long Grand Boulé conference of the Zeta Phi Beta historically black sorority...the fact is Harris knew for over a month the date and approximate time that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu would be making a historic fourth appearance before a Joint Session of Congress in what now surpassed appearances by the great Winston Churchill. And even knowing this, Harris chose not to even ask to have her sorority speech be shifted to a different day and time...something that could easily have been done if only she had bothered to ask.

What a slap in the face to Benjamin Netanyahu...the leader of America's staunchest and most loyal ally... proving to all that for Kamala Harris her priorities will always be based upon an event's skin color scenario and not on the importance of the issue being addressed nor on the importance of the person giving said address... especially when it concerns the Jewish State of Israel.

But this is par for the course for the very woman who does not have a pro-Israel record, and who not long ago stated that, “The Israeli government must do more to significantly increase the flow of aid into Gaza. No excuses,” and followed it up by threatened “consequences for Israel,” if they don't...thus sending a powerful message to all as to who whose side in the Israel v. Hamas war she is on. And it's no wonder that many pro-Israel world leaders have no respect for her...except for maybe the mullahs is in Iran and her “no friend to Israel” or Netanyahu puppet master Barack Obama, the man who has always been and will always be the one pulling Harris' strings.

And as for the 68 of the 263 Democrat members of Congress...plus lone Republican Rep. Thomas Massie of Kentucky...who boycotted Netanyahu's address...I say to those who stand in solidarity with the Israeli hating, anti-Semitic, pro-Hamas protesters and agitators who were gathered outside the Capitol and also on Pennsylvania Avenue, “shame on you,...you are a disgrace to the very office you were elected to.” Siding with those screaming “Free Palestine” and “From the river to the sea” all while defacing government, public, and private property at Union Station, then moving on to vandalize a Christopher Columbus statue with the words, “Hamas is coming” while Netanyahu was speaking... gives new insight into who you really are. But Netanyahu said it better than I could by his truthfully stating that, “When the tyrants of Tehran who hang gays from cranes and murder women for not covering their hair are praising, promoting, and funding you, you have officially become Iran's useful idiots.”

 

 “Useful idiots” indeed especially when our very own U.S. Director of National Intelligence has confirmed that said protests against Israel and the anti-Semitic protests on American college and university campuses are indeed being funded by “Iranian government actors.”

And here I'll go but one step further and first say to those protesting Netanyahu's address over Israel's so rightful actions in Gaza, you folks willfully choose to ignore the fact that as per urban warfare expert John Spencer...the Chair of “Urban Warfare Studies” at the Modern War Institute at West Point...“Israel and the IDF have taken all efforts to preserve civilian life, and has done so above and beyond what international law requires” meaning that Israel's Gaza incursion has indeed resulted in one, if not the, lowest ratios of combatant to civilian deaths in the entire history of warfare. 

And second, I say to those very same folks who indeed are Iranian funded “useful idiots”...”idiots” who relished in spewing “allah-akbar” while trampling on and then burning both American and Israeli flags and replacing them with Palestinian flags while at the same time hanging Netanyahu in effigy and shouted Netanyahu is a “war criminal”...and this includes Michigan Rep. Rashida Tlaib who held up a sign that said “war criminal” while listening to Netanyahu's address...I say get the hell out of my country for you and your ilk are no better than the sum of the islamists you support. 

In fact, to be more specific, you folks are no better than...as per Benjamin Netanyahu...the Hamas “monsters who raped women, beheaded men, burned babies alive, killed parents in front of their children and killed children in front of their parents,” all while “They dragged 255 people, both living and dead, into the dark dungeons of Gaza”...thus reiterating the very scenario these anti-Israel protesters refuse to accept as truth.

And while House Speaker Mike Johnson warned of a “zero-tolerance policy” for any signs of disturbances in the Capitol building itself, U.S. Capitol Police have said that six people were arrested after disrupting Netanyahu's address to Congress. Disrupting Congress and demonstrating in congressional buildings is indeed against the law as per D.C. “Code §10-503.16(b)(2), Unlawful Conduct”**...as is the protesters blocking traffic while calling for a “student intifada.” And yet the fact remains that Israel...the now and forever home of the Jewish people...has been engaged for these passed ten months in a war for its very survival...a war that has become a 3-front war: Israel v. Hamas in Gaza; Israel v. Hezbollah in Lebanon; and Israel v. the Houthis operating out of Yemen. And Netanyahu knows well that Iran is their enemies common denominator making this, in actuality, a 4-front war Israel is now fighting.

And fight Israel will do for Netanyahu also made it clear in his address that Israel's current fight against those who wish its “elimination” is “not a clash of civilizations” but “a clash between barbarism and civilization.” No truer ever words spoken as were Netanyahu's following words that, “America and Israel must stand together,” for “When we fight Iran we are fighting the most radical and murderous enemy of the United States. How true those words are for we...the United States of America...are Iran's main enemy with Israel alone outwardly standing between them and not only us, but Iran's hoped for Jew-free, Christian-free world...and know that those of the Christian faith are surely next on Iran's “hit list” if you will
 

But I say that day hopefully will never come for not only did Netanyahu rightfully say that, “when we stand together, something important happens, we win, they lose,” but I say that as long as strong leaders like Benjamin Netanyahu...as long as strong men like Donald J. Trump are America's president...and as long as they and “We the People” continue to repeat these 23 words said by Netanyahu over and over again, “'Never again' must never be an empty promise”...“It must always remain a sacred vow – and after October 7, 'never again' is NOW”...“never again” will indeed be “never again.”

And in Benjamin Netanyahu's near closing remarks that, “All countries who are at peace with Israel and who will make peace with Israel must join a military alliance against Iran,” this one brave man let it be known that an Iranian “battle cry” of sorts was now being directed at the sum total of the western world. Why so...because when five allied nations armies took to the skies last April to shoot down what was an Iranian missile and drone attack against the Jewish state, those five nations knew then that by their helping Israel that they too were not not safe from the religious driven fury that is the hallmark of Iran.

And with that said, Netanyahu also let it be known that a new security alliance to counter the growing Iranian threat...the “Abraham Alliance” he said he'd like to call it...would if implemented be a Middle East version of and somewhat on par with NATO but much stronger. A “natural extension” of President Trump's ground breaking “Abraham Accords,” that would send a powerful message to Iran that the western world would no longer allow nor put up with their barbaric and savage ways, and that those on the side of Israel know well the “difference between good and evil” and “right from wrong.”

And so Benjamin Netanyahu wrapped up his address before Congress, but not before his having introduced at the beginning of said address a number of IDF soldiers... including muslim and Bedouin soldiers fighting alongside Israel...heroes all...who helped not just by their fighting in this just war, but individuals who helped in freeing some of the 135 hostages now safely back on Israeli soil, which included former hostage Noa Argamani who sat between Netanyahu's wife Sara and her father during Netanyahu's address. And in a show of much welcomed bipartisanship, Netenyahu also thanked Joe Biden not only for his “half a century of friendship to Israel” and for being a proud “Irish-American Zionist,” but also for his and America's part in the aforementioned April event This was a very nice thing to do considering what Biden's own party, led by Obama of course, has done to Biden in getting him to withdraw from the presidential race, thus allowing Netanyahu a moment to cleverly get in a “bitch slap” at Obama, the man who while president relished in “stabbing Israel in the back” time and time again.

And so I leave you with these words spoken by the very man I will always consider to be the world's last great statesman, ”For 4,000 years Israel has been the land of the Jewish people...it has always been our home and it will always be our home.” And with that I say “amen” and “case closed.”

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