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Iran-funded mobs who promise violence against America and raise foreign flags over our capital city are not protesters, they’re enemy combatants — and our leaders better recognize that before we see an October 7-style attack on our own soil.
When the leader of one our nation’s allies visits the United States, they are typically met with kindness, respect, and decorum. Streets are cleaned, hospitality is extended, and leaders pay homage to a person whose office warrants reverence.
That is unless you’re the leader of the United States’s closest ally.
Then you’re met with maggots and crickets in your hotel, an effigy of you burned in clear view of the U.S. Capitol, calls for your nation’s destruction, and scores of rioters who not only hate you but the country they now inhabit.
That was the embarrassment our country faced yesterday as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke before Congress.
The slights began when President Joe Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris, and Secretary of State Antony Blinken failed to go to the airport to greet the man affectionately known as Bibi.
It got much worse from there as pro-Hamas protesters flooded Washington D.C. and several members of Congress refused to attend Netanyahu’s speech. Biden and Harris also did not attend Bibi’s fourth speech before Congress.
This despite the fact that some of those in attendance included members of the Israeli military, who had been wounded fighting Hamas terrorists and saving civilians. Also there were a father who lost his son during the Hamas assault on Israel on October 7 and Noa Argamani, a young woman who was violently kidnapped by Hamas fighters and held hostage for eight months before being freed by an Israeli military effort that cost the life of an officer, Arnon Zmora.
Figuratively spitting in their faces was Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D, who, scowling, held a sign that read “war criminal” on one side and “guilty of genocide” on the other.
Outside the Capitol raged a mob of pro-Hamas protesters. Not only did they burn an effigy of Netanyahu and wave signs accusing him of genocide but they also allegedly “killed” yet another effigy of President Biden.
The rioters vandalized monuments like the copy of the Liberty Bell and painted threatening messages on the Columbus Fountain such as “Hamas is comin’”; “abolish the United States”; and the red triangle that Hamas uses to mark Israeli targets for attack.
They also lowered three American flags flying over Union Station and completely burned at least one of them. Police were able to rescue another of the American flags, while a man attempted to save another one that had been set on fire, but protesters chased him down and took it from him. In the place of the American flags, the rioters raised Palestinian flags.
Protesters also filled the Capitol building and held signs reading, “MOURN THE DEAD AND FIGHT LIKE HELL FOR THE LIVING”.
Inside the halls of Congress, Netanyahu gave a rousing speech, which I encourage you to read the full transcript of here or watch the video here.
He praised the U.S., its leaders, and its people for their support of Israel and promised that his nation would defend itself and achieve “total victory.”
He rebuffed claims by the International Criminal Court (ICC) that Israel had starved Gazans or needlessly killed civilians, arguing that Israel had gone to great lengths to feed and protect civilians. He said that it is Hamas who is keeping food from civilians and using women and children as shields by placing weapons near civilians in the hopes that Israel will accidentally kill them and fuel its narrative.
Netanyahu also said that the protesters were choosing to stand with evil. He pointed out that Iran has been supporting pro-Palestine protesters in the United States, which has been confirmed by U.S. national security adviser John Kirby.
Israel’s leader speculated that some of the rioters outside the Capitol yesterday may have been sent by Iran. “Well, I have a message for these protesters: 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,” he said, before adding:
“It’s amazing, absolutely amazing. Some of these protesters hold up signs proclaiming, ‘Gays for Gaza.’ They might as well hold up signs saying, ‘Chickens for KFC.’
These protesters chant ‘From the river to the sea.’ But many don’t have a clue what river and what sea they’re talking about. They not only get an F in geography, they get an F in history. They call Israel a colonialist state. Don’t they know that the Land of Israel is where Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob prayed, where Isaiah and Jeremiah preached, and where David and Solomon ruled?
For nearly 4,000 years, the land of Israel has been the homeland of the Jewish people. It’s always been our home; it will always be our home.”
Netanyahu asserted that Iran, which supports terrorism throughout the Middle East, is waging a war on Israel but that its primary goal is the United States. He claimed that as Israel fights Iran and its terror groups, it protects the United States and so he called for a quicker release of funds for his nation.
Although he has been criticized for not expressing a vision of hope and an end to the war, Netanyahu did express his vision — just not the one Hamas supporters and sympathizers want to hear.
He stated that the war could end tomorrow if Hamas will surrender, disarm, and return the hostages.
“But if they don’t, Israel will fight until we destroy Hamas’s military capabilities and its rule in Gaza and bring all our hostages home. That’s what total victory means, and we will settle for nothing less.”
“The day after we defeat Hamas,” Netanyahu stated, “a new Gaza can emerge.”
“My vision for that day is of a demilitarized and deradicalized Gaza. Israel does not seek to resettle Gaza. But for the foreseeable future, we must retain overriding security control there to prevent the resurgence of terror, to ensure that Gaza never again poses a threat to Israel.”
He said that Gaza should have an administration of Palestinians who do not seek to destroy Israel.
“A new generation of Palestinians must no longer be taught to hate Jews but rather to live in peace with us. Those twin words, demilitarization and deradicalization, those two concepts, were applied to Germany and Japan after World War II, and that led to decades of peace, prosperity, and security.
Following our victory, with the help of regional partners, the demilitarization and deradicalization of Gaza can also lead to a future of security, prosperity, and peace. That’s my vision for Gaza.”
Netanyahu speaks not as a Marxist college student radicalized by anti-Israel professors and activists but as someone who has faced evil for decades and who knows what it takes for his nation to survive.
He knows that the enemy he faces is a hatred of the Jewish people fostered in the Palestinian people by evil men like those who make up Hamas. He knows that Hamas will use women and children to safeguard military installations. He knows that they will use any form of barbaric savagery to intimidate and eliminate the Jewish people. He also knows the evil and the power that controls and supports both Hamas and the useful idiot American college students: Iran.
Netanyahu knows that if Israel doesn’t stop Hamas — whether that be through war or through Hamas’s surrender and demilitarization — Israel will never have any peace.
It’s time the American people wise up themselves.
Those left-wing college students who cheer Hamas may seem harmless, but they need to be deradicalized just like the Palestinians.
Meanwhile, those who come to our country and scream promises of violence against our nation and burn our flag while raising that of another nation or terrorist group should be recognized for what they are: enemy combatants, not protesters. They aren’t immigrants seeking a better life, they’re conquerors seeking to destroy America.
Since October 7, these pro-Hamas protestors have been carrying out a proxy war in the United States, as seen by their willingness to openly celebrate Hamas’s October 7 attacks, threaten Jewish students, occupy campus buildings, vandalize the homes of Jewish Americans, call for intifada against Jewish organizations, attack police officers, and paint their propaganda on U.S. government property, among many other actions.
If you think the same people who praise the rape of women and the murder of children in Israel wouldn’t do the same or support it here then I have a bridge to sell you.
Our nation needs to demonstrate strength because right now, Islamic radicals around the world see us for what are: a weak and self-loathing nation that happens to allow anyone and everyone to cross our border and remain in our country.
We must ensure all understand that we will not tolerate Hamas or Iran’s attacks on Americans or on Israel. We will not tolerate an invasion force abusing our kindness and staging a takeover of our country.
Enemy combatants must be kicked out of our nation. Our border must be secured. Our relationship with Israel must be honored. And our nation’s sovereignty and ideals must be maintained.
That is what is needed for total victory by the United States — or we too could end up experiencing a terror attack on our own civilian population not unlike what Israel experienced on October 7.
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