Israel’s ‘useful idiots’ are the US Congress and the Biden administration

Netanyahu addresses the U.S. Congress on July 24 to multiple standing ovations. – Photo: AP by Colonel (ret) Ann Wright, Popular Resistance The invitation to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to speak to the U.S. Congress as his government conducts a genocide on Palestinians in Gaza and condones the brutality of illegal settlers toward Palestinian land owners in the West Bank is incredibly outrageous. The remark by Netanyahu in his address to the Congress on July 24 that those who challenge the genocide and protest U.S. complicity in the murder of 39,000 Palestinians in the past nine months and tens of thousands still buried underneath the rubble of destroyed homes and apartment buildings, in schools, hospitals and tents are “useful idiots” of Iran was particularly ironic. Who are the “useful idiots?” Not the protesters but the U.S. Congress and the Biden administration The “useful idiots” are not those who protest the murder of innocent civilians but those who give impunity for Israel to conduct the genocide of Gaza – the U.S. Congress that invited Netanyahu to speak and gave him standing ovations during his talk and the Biden administration that continues to send aircraft, missile systems and ammunition to Israel...