West Wing Worry About Netanyahu's Upcoming Speech

by Ruthie Blum

• The reason for the anxiety—say the outlet's White House bureau chief, Jonathan Lemire, and national-security reporter Alexander Ward, citing "senior officials" whom they "granted anonymity to speak candidly about internal deliberations"—is that "no one knows what he is going to say."
• Team Biden is "increasingly believing" the mantra of Israel's "anybody but Bibi" protesters and their colluders across the pond: that Netanyahu doesn't care about the 120 remaining hostages in Gaza—where they're being physically, psychologically and sexually abused—or about the IDF troops risking and losing their lives to defeat Hamas and free the captives.
• The accusation isn't merely immoral; its premise is totally false.
• The far-right members of [Netanyahu's] coalition want "further escalation" of the war? ...This is Democrat-speak for the goal that most Israelis share: to achieve the swiftest possible victory over a brutal enemy whose genocidal slaughter and mass abductions on Oct. 7 forced Israel into a war it didn't want but must win.
• Bibi's plea eight years ago that the U.S. not reach an agreement with the evil regime in Tehran indeed enraged America's Iran appeasers ... Yet, his appeal to the U.S. lawmakers stemmed from Iran's race to obtain atomic bombs with which to wipe Israel off the map.
• He was also trying to convey that enriching the ayatollahs would simply enable them to pursue their nuclear program and fund their terrorist proxies around the globe. This, he insisted, would imperil the free world as a whole.
• What Lemire and Ward conveniently omit from their hostile analysis is that Netanyahu's standing up in this way to the Obama administration so impressed the Gulf states, which also feared an emboldened Iran, that it turned out to be the precursor to the Abraham Accords between Israel and several Arab neighbors.
• Both Biden and Politico ought to realize that it's not Netanyahu's "far-right" coalition members who oppose such an eventuality, but rather the vast majority of the Israeli public.
• Note to the Democrats and their apologists in the press: the Abraham Accords signatories and Saudi Arabia are carefully observing the war in Gaza and Israel's response to Hezbollah in Lebanon to see which side emerges as the strong horse.
• They are actually hoping for a decisive Israeli victory and an administration in Washington that makes Iran tremble—not the other way around. Netanyahu needs to show them that Israel is still their safest bet, regardless of the presidential election in November. And they'll be listening very carefully to his oratory.

Pictured: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses a joint meeting of the US Congress in Washington, DC, on March 3, 2015. (Photo by Nicholas Kamm/AFP via Getty Images)

An article published in Politico on Saturday claims that the administration in Washington is worried about Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's address next month to a joint session of the U.S. Congress.

The reason for the anxiety—say the outlet's White House bureau chief, Jonathan Lemire, and national-security reporter Alexander Ward, citing "senior officials" whom they "granted anonymity to speak candidly about internal deliberations"—is that "no one knows what he is going to say."

According to the authors and their nameless contacts, the White House fears that Bibi might take the opportunity to (gasp!) criticize President Joe Biden for not sufficiently supporting Israel's war effort.

Terrifying indeed.

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