House and Senate Dems should BOYCOTT Netanyahu's Boehner-orchestrated Congressional address
There is no excuse for a House speaker inviting a foreign head of government to address a joint session of Congress against the will of the president.
There is no legitimate reason for Benjamin Netanyahu to BE addressing the U.S. Congress at all. He is only speaking there to boost his chances of surviving a tough re-election campaign(a campaign his anti-peace, pro-West Bank annexation coalition seems increasingly likely to lose)
and to sabotage the Obama administration's so-far successful campaign to negotiate limits on the Iranian nuclear program(a process the new, more moderate Iranian government appears to be cooperating with in good faith).
If Democratic senators and congressmembers attend Netanyahu's speech to the joint session, they will be participating in the delegitamization of a Democratic president and they will be, effectively, intervening in the Israeli election campaign by effectively endorsing the re-election of the Likud coalition.
They will not be defending Israel(assisting in the re-election of Netanyahu doesn't do anything to make Israelis any safer or more secure, and they will be making it harder for the administration to achieve its own foreign policy objectives.
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