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Israeli leader Benjamin Netanyahu speaks to a Congress divided on Israel-Gaza war
July 24, 2024 at 2:42 p.m
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July 24, 2024 at 2:42 p.m. EDT8 min ago
Israel’s embattled prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, began addressing a joint meeting of Congress on Wednesday in an event that drew throngs of protesters and spotlighted the sharp divide between Republicans and Democrats in their approach to the devastating war in Gaza. A divisive political figure before the conflict began, Netanyahu faces deepening dissent at home, where two-thirds of Israelis want him to leave office. In the Gaza Strip, his right-wing government is approaching 10 months of war, with a death toll of more than 39,000 Palestinians, according to local health officials, and facing widespread criticism over the humanitarian disaster the conflict has unleashed. Netanyahu’s address will be streamed live here.
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By Abigail Hauslohner
National security reporter
Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) can now be seen holding up a small placard that says “war criminal” on it whenever there is applause.
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By Praveena Somasundaram
General Assignment reporter
Netanyahu thanked the fraternity brothers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill who in April stood in front of a flagpole on the school’s campus during a pro-Palestinian protest to protect the American flag atop it. Demonstrators that day had temporarily replaced it with a Palestinian flag. The fraternity brothers also recently attended the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee.
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By Abigail Hauslohner
National security reporter
Netanyahu struck a defiant tone, chiding the antiwar protesters, liberal college students and members of Congress who have opposed him as “idiots” and antisemites.
“I have a message for these protesters,” he said. “You have officially become Iran’s useful idiots.”
Their criticisms — also leveled by senior administration officials, the United Nations and the world’s leading human rights organizations — that Israel’s blockade on Gaza has deprived Palestinians of badly needed food and supplies, causing mass hunger and malnutrition, “is utter and complete nonsense,” he declared.
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By Abigail Hauslohner
National security reporter
By midway through the speech, fewer than half the Democrats in attendance appeared to stand during applause breaks. Some sat stone-faced with crossed arms, or stared at their phones. Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.), seated directly facing Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, also stayed seated as Republicans stood to clap and chant “USA, USA” on a few occasions.
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By Yasmeen Abutaleb
White House Reporter
Netanyahu is now addressing those who have protested against Israel’s war in Gaza, calling them “anti-Israel protesters … who stand with Hamas.”
Protests have erupted across the United States since Israel launched its war in October. This spring, there were protests that consumed several college campuses. Most protesters have called for an immediate and permanent cease-fire and suspension of offensive weapon transfers to Israel. They have decried the enormous civilian death toll in Gaza and Israel’s blockade of the enclave, which has led to widespread famine, a collapse of the health-care system and unsanitary conditions that are spreading disease.
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By John Hudson
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu introduced Israeli soldiers who fought and were wounded in battle during and after the Oct. 7 attacks, including a lieutenant who lost his leg “and continued to fight,” Netanyahu said.
Members of Congress applauded him as he lifted his crutch in an act of defiance.
“As the Bible says, they shall rise like lions,” Netanyahu said. “They have risen like lions.”
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu acknowledged Noa Argamani on July 24, who was previously held hostage by Hamas. (Video: The Washington Post)
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu mentioned the presence of people whose loved ones are hopeful or mourning or were themselves once hostages.
He pointed out Noa Argamani, who was held by Hamas for 245 days before being rescued. She stood to much applause.
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By Ishaan Tharoor
Foreign affairs columnist and anchor of Today's WorldView, the Post's daily column and newsletter on global politics
Noa Argamani, the rescued Israeli hostage in attendance in Congress, recently confronted Netanyahu over his approach to the war in Gaza. During a Monday meeting with the Israeli prime minister, she tearfully said her “hardest moment” in captivity was when she heard Netanyahu over a radio feed vow to wage a long war.
“I listened to the radio and heard you say the war will be long. I thought, ‘I won’t get out of here.’ It was a breaking point for me,” Argamani told Netanyahu, according to the Times of Israel.
Families and friends of the hostages have been at loggerheads with Netanyahu over his perceived unwillingness to prioritize the safety and freedom of the hostages over Israel’s military objectives against Hamas.
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By Ben Brasch
General Assignment reporter
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu thanked President Biden for his support of Israel and for sending two aircraft carriers to aid the nation. His mention prompts applause from the legislators in the crowd.
Netanyahu said he appreciates the “half-a-century” of friendship Biden has given to Israel.
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Despite Gaza carnage, Netanyahu says it is Israel that sanctifies ‘life’
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By John Hudson
National security reporter focusing on the State Department and diplomacy.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told members of Congress on Wednesday that Israel cherishes human life and its opponents “glorify death,” despite global criticisms that the Israel Defense Forces has devastated Gaza with its indiscriminate use of bombs, missiles and artillery.
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By Yasmeen Abutaleb
White House Reporter
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrives to speak at a joint meeting of Congress on July 24 in Washington, D.C. Standing behind him are House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.), left, and Senate Foreign Relations Chair Ben Cardin (D-Md.) (Pete Kiehart for The Washington Post)
Netanyahu thanked President Biden for his “tireless work” in trying to secure a six-week cease-fire in exchange for the remaining Israeli hostages.
“I thank President Biden for his heartfelt support of Israel,” Netanyahu said.
The prime minister is widely viewed as an obstacle to securing a deal that U.S. officials have worked on for months. Hamas has agreed to the proposed framework.
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By Yasmeen Abutaleb
White House Reporter
Netanyahu points to Noa Argamani in the chamber, who became one of the best-known Israeli hostages because of video of her being taken into Gaza on a motorcycle on Oct. 7, 2023. She was one of four hostages rescued in an Israeli operation last month that ended up killing more than 270 Palestinians.
37 min ago
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By Kelsey Baker, Liz Goodwin and Abigail Hauslohner
Netanyahu’s address to Congress is his fourth, the most that any foreign leader has delivered. He previously addressed Congress in 1996, 2011 and 2015.
Before today, Netanyahu was tied with British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, who addressed Congress on three different occasions in 1941, 1943 and 1951.
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By Yasmeen Abutaleb
White House Reporter
Right off the bat, Netanyahu is doing what many expected him to: He’s framing this as an existential fight for Israel’s survival by talking about the threat Iran poses, calling it a fight not between civilizations but between “barbarism” and civilization.
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By Ben Brasch
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An influential Republican Jewish group announced a campaign chastising Vice President Harris for not attending Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech to Congress just hours before the event was set to begin.
Sen. J.D. Vance (Ohio), Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump’s running mate, also will not attend the speech, per a campaign statement, because of preplanned travel.
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By Ben Brasch
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U.S. legislators applauded Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for three straight minutes as he entered the chamber.
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By Ellie Silverman
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Capitol Police posted on X that protesters near First Street and Constitution Avenue NW “started to become violent” and did not “obey our order to move back from our police line.”
“We are deploying pepper spray towards anyone trying to break the law and cross that line,” police said in the post.
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By Yasmeen Abutaleb
White House Reporter
Netanyahu is making his speech at a remarkable moment in U.S. politics. He has spent the past few months disparaging President Biden, who has provided unprecedented U.S. military and diplomatic support to Israel even as it has become internationally isolated for the way it has carried out its war in Gaza, and as Biden has suffered politically with key parts of his Democratic base.
In Israel, there is anxiety among security and defense officials over what no longer having Biden in office will mean for U.S. support. One adviser to the Israeli government said he expects Netanyahu to strike a more measured tone toward Biden than he otherwise would have before Biden exited the presidential race.
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Congressional reporter covering the House of Representatives
Here’s something we haven’t seen in several years: Far-right House lawmakers lining the seats down the center aisle to greet the person addressing Congress. Democrats have largely saved those seats over the past three years to shake President Biden’s hand as he enters the chamber to deliver his State of the Union address. But today, many of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s most ardent supporters on Capitol Hill were in place to greet him first, while Democrats largely stayed away from the center aisles.
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By Liz Goodwin
Congress reporter
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is entering the chamber now. He’s followed by congressional leaders.
48 min ago
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Tesla CEO Elon Musk, center, arrives for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's speech. (Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images)
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A man emerged from a crowd and collapsed on the sidewalk at Louisiana Avenue and First Street NW. He appeared to be unable to open his eyes and his nose ran profusely.
“They pepper sprayed us. I need water!” shouted the man, who wore a red shirt and a badge around his neck that read “Arrest Netanyahu.”
The man declined to give his name.
It was not immediately clear what prompted a minutes-long clash with police nearby.
55 min ago
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Vice President Harris appears during an event with college athletes on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington on Monday. (Demetrius Freeman/The Washington Post)
Vice President Harris has pushed the rest of the Biden administration to more heavily consider Palestinian suffering in its response to Israel’s war in Gaza, lambasting the civilian death toll, calling on Israel to allow more aid into the territory, and speaking more forcefully and empathetically than President Biden about the Palestinian plight.
Harris — who is now the likely Democratic presidential nominee — has been careful not to publicly diverge from Biden’s staunch support of Israel.
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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is poised to speak to Congress as his government is seen by U.S. and Arab negotiators as the key impediment to securing a cease-fire and hostage-release agreement that could lead to an end of the nine-month Gaza war, said diplomats and officials familiar with the matter.
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Police officers manning a barricade at Third Street and Constitution Avenue donned gas masks, and there was a smell of chemical irritant in the air.
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Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) takes photos of Reps. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.), right, and Cori Bush (D-Mo.) as they hold a banner calling for a cease-fire in Gaza on Nov. 8 in Washington. (Haiyun Jiang for The Washington Post)
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Former president Donald Trump said Tuesday that he will meet with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu this week, marking the first meeting between the two men since Trump left the White House more than three years ago.
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New study lends support to Gaza death toll figures
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A wounded man is transferred to Kuwait Hospital in Rafah after an Israeli airstrike next to al-Emirati Hospital, also in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip on March 2. (Loay Ayyoub for The Washington Post)
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Thousands of Palestinian supporters gathered in Washington D.C. to protest ahead of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's address to Congress on July 24. (Video: The Washington Post)
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Senators have started to gather in the chamber ahead of the procession over to the joint address in the House.
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By Jenny Gathright
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“No one is free until everyone is free,” Sarandon said.
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Rabbi Menachem Mermelstein traveled from New York to protest with a group of more than 100 orthodox Jewish rabbis and students.
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He came to protest Netanyahu’s speech before Congress because he wants to see that kind of peaceful coexistence again.
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Around 100 people rallied at noon in a park near Union Station in Washington, D.C. Some were waving Israeli flags and others stood behind a banner that read: “Save Israel from Bibi.” The gathering was organized by UnXeptable, an activist group of Israeli expatriates. Speakers, including Rabbi Jill Jacobs, urged political leaders to save the hostages but also to “save Israel and its democracy” from Benjamin Netanyahu.
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Benny Gantz arrives in Tel Aviv on Nov. 24 to speak with family members of the hostages held in Gaza. (Heidi Levine for The Washington Post)
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Republican vice-presidential nominee J.D. Vance speaks during a campaign event. (Tom Brenner for The Washington Post)
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Military vehicles inside Gaza amid the Israel-Hamas conflict on July 16. (Amir Cohen/Reuters)
The last time Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu came to Washington, hopes were high for peace — or at least, one particular vision of it. It was September 2020, and Netanyahu appeared at a White House then home to Donald Trump. Through a pact brokered by the Trump administration, Israel was normalizing ties with the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain, two Arab monarchies that shared Israel’s antipathy toward Iran.
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The Israeli soccer team trains ahead of its first match Wednesday. (Yves Herman/Reuters)
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The four top congressional leaders — Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) — are expected to meet with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Capitol ahead of his 2 p.m. speech.
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By Ishaan Tharoor
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A pedestrian walks past a No More Bombs for Netanyahu mobile billboard near the Capitol building Tuesday. (Kevin Wolf/AP)
Thanks to U.S. lawmakers, Israel’s polarizing leader gets to eclipse Winston Churchill. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech to a joint session of Congress on Wednesday afternoon will mark the fourth time he has been invited to deliver such an address, surpassing the wartime British prime minister whose bust once sat prominently in the White House.
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By Ben Brasch, Abigail Hauslohner and Liz Goodwin
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) threatened that unruly guests would be removed and arrested by the sergeant-at-arms and Capitol Police if they disrupt the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech. Johnson wrote the warning in a letter he sent to House members Tuesday.
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Police quickly break up small skirmish near Union Station
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By Hau Chu
A writer focused on stories and issues across the D.C. region, usually happening around nighttime.
Skirmish breaks out between pro-Palestinian protesters
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A small skirmish broke out between two groups of pro-Palestinian protesters as people gather in downtown D.C. ahead of Netanyahu address to Congress. (Video: The Washington Post)
Dozens of people, some wearing yarmulkes and traditional shawls, gathered in prayer at a park near Union Station in Washington around 11 a.m. The sound was soon overtaken by protesters marching alongside chanting “Free, free Palestine.” Those in prayer raised two fingers in the shape of the peace sign along with posters that read “Hamas out of Gaza, Bibi out of office.”
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