Prime
Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had come to D.C. to defend Israel’s war
against Islamic terrorists, instead he ended up defending America in a
city and Congress overrun with them.
Marxist and Jihadist mobs
prowled the streets of D.C., tearing down and burning American flags,
and putting up the terrorist flags of the PLO in their place. Hamas
supporters openly waved the
green flag of the Muslim Brotherhood terrorist organization and even the
black ‘battle flag’ used by ISIS and other Jihadists made an appearance in the capital of the United States.
The Columbus fountain outside Union Station
was vandalized
with the red triangles supporting Islamic terrorist attacks and “Hamas
is Coming”. “Long live the intifada” was scrawled on the Freedom Bell. A
courageous
lone individual rushed to save an American flag being burned by a
mob shouting
“Allahu Akbar” which quickly gave chase. The Capitol Police, formerly
so beloved by Democrats and media, battled more of the red-shirted
radical thugs with no support.
“Allahu Akbar! Hamas!” a Muslim protester
shouted. “We’re gonna kill all the Jews.”
Then in a few hours the insurrectionist mob that assaulted Capitol Police officers was set loose.
The
message from the Biden administration and Democrats was once again that
terrorist mobs could freely vandalize landmarks, threaten members of
Congress and assault Capitol Police.
The White House offered no
specific condemnation of the anti-American violence. Rep. Pelosi and
many top Democrats instead blasted Netanyahu for refusing to surrender
to Hamas. None of them spoke out against the hatred not only for Israel,
but for the United States of America, for the calls to murder Jews and
the chants for the destruction of America.
Inside the situation
was no better. Kamala Harris, Rep. Nancy Pelosi and many top Democrats
had decided to boycott Netanyahu’s speech. Those who attended offered
little applause and sat scowling through much of the bipartisan address.
A few behaved disruptively including Rep. Rashida Tlaib, a longtime
terrorist supporter, who held up a protest sign during the speech.
It
fell to Netanyahu to condemn the mobs who “burned American flags even
on the fourth of July. And I wish to salute the fraternity brothers of
the University of North Carolina who protected the American flag against
these anti-Israel protesters.” Followed by chants of “USA, USA.”
It would not be the first or last time that chants of “USA” were heard during the address.
Netanyahu’s
speech often sounded like a State of the Union address that no one was
around to give anymore, praising America as “the guardian of Western
civilization”, and urging that “for the forces of civilization to
triumph, America and Israel must stand together.” He invoked Pearl
Harbor and 9/11 and condemned the failures of colleges to teach basic
values.
Netanyahu described clarity as “knowing the difference
between good and evil.” He denounced those protesters who “stand with
evil, they stand with rapists and murderers” who found babies hidden in
an attic and murdered them. While Speaker Mike Johnson stood up to
applaud, the ranking Democrat, Sen. Ben Cardin applauded lightly but
remained seated .
“Some of these protesters hold up signs saying:
‘Gays for Gaza’ they might as well hold signs saying ‘Chickens for
KFC’”, Netanyahu said. Cardin did not applaud that one. Few Dems did.
With
rescued hostages and hostage families in attendance, he described the
Hamas atrocities of Oct 7 when “these monsters raped women, beheaded
men, burned babies alive, they killed parents in front of their children
and children in front of their parents, they dragged 255 people, both
living and dead, into to the dark dungeons of Gaza.”
Meanwhile Rep. Jerry Nadler boasted that he was “trolling” Netanyahu by reading a book.
“We
also have families with American hostages here,” Netanyahu said, while
Kamala was off attending a sorority event, and some 70 Democrats were
officially boycotting the speech.
He introduced Avichai Reuven,
an Ethiopian Israeli soldier who ran 8 miles during the Oct 7 attacks,
killed terrorists and saved lives, and three other heroes of the fight
against Hamas, two of whom had lost limbs. “These are the soldiers of
Israel, unbowed, undaunted and unafraid.”
Democrats like Pelosi
and Nadler, along with Kamala, Schumer and many others demand that they
be daunted and surrender to Hamas. They are doing the dirty work for
Hamas and Iran.
Recently,
as Front Page Magazine reported,
Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines admitted that Iran was
financing some of the pro-terrorist protesters. Netanyahu suggested that
could include the Hamas riots outside and called them “useful idiots”
for Iran. He described Ayatollah Khomeini’s promise to “export the
revolution to the entire world.”
America stands in the way of Iran’s plan to impose Islam on the world, he argued.
“That’s
why Iran sees America as its greatest enemy.” He quoted a Hezbollah
terrorist official who said that, “the real war is with America.” Iran
had sent “death squads” to kill Americans, including Trump
administration officials and even “brazenly threatened to assassinate
former President Trump.”
“Iran realizes that to challenge
America, it must first conquer the Middle East… but Israel stands in its
way. That’s why the mobs in Tehran chant ‘Death to Israel’ before
‘Death to America.’”
Netanyahu laid out a compelling case for
Israel as the barrier to Islamic expansionism. And for America to
support Israel so that it doesn’t have to put boots on the ground in the
Middle East.
But he was also speaking to a very different Washington D.C. than when he first spoke in 1996.
The
idea of America as “the guardian of Western civilization” would now be
outright offensive to the average Democrat. As is the idea of fighting
Islamic terrorism instead of surrendering to it.
But in a
Washington D.C. where Islamic terrorist flags are freely waved and
Jihadist graffiti is scrawled across national monuments, that may no
longer be so. The nation’s capital, under Biden and Kamala, is no longer
the “guardian” of anything except pork and privilege.
Rather
than defending Israel in D.C., Netanyahu was tasked with defending
America, making the case for it as a great nation and a force for good
even while members of Congress, congressional staffers, wealthy brats
and Islamic terrorists made their stand for evil.
Israel lacks
support in D.C. not just because the left is antisemitic, but because it
hates America. And a movement that hates America cannot be expected to
love Israel or support civilization.
Netanyahu was the product of
a better America. When he left in the sixties to fight for Israel, he
had imbibed the best of this nation in his time here. Yet each time he
returned America had grown worse. Had he jeered America, denounced it as
a racist, capitalist and imperialist enterprise, many of the Democrats
who boycotted the speech would have come and cheered.
This was a
speech meant to remind Americans of what Israel and we are fighting for.
But despite his eloquence, the red and green mobs outside waving
terrorist flags, chanting “Allahu Akbar” and burning American flags did
that better than even the greatest speech ever could.
No matter how many lies the media put out there, the choices are painfully clear.
One of the protesters, the sorts of people whom Kamala described as “showing exactly what the human emotion should be”, stood
holding a sign
reading “Allah is gathering all the Zionists for the ‘Final Solution’
with a nuclear mushroom cloud overhead.” In his other hand, he waved the
black battle flag of the Caliphate with its call for imposing Allah and
Islam on America.
The choice between good and evil is all too clear. All that remains is to make it.
