One Quote Perfectly Sums Up Why Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu Is a Total Hypocrite
"I can't find an example of any previous Israeli government whose prime minister, on the eve of elections, made a cynical attempt to use relations between Israel and the United States as a party advertisement."
-Netanyahu 1996
Those are the words of an Israeli politician named Benjamin Netanyahu, speaking in 1996 about then-Prime Minister Shimon Peres' decision to address a joint session of Congress weeks before that spring's Israeli elections.
Nearly 20 years later, Netanyahu, the incumbent prime minister, is set to engage in a "cynical" election eve charade of his own. On March 3, two weeks before Israelis go to the polls to cast judgment on Netanyahu and his right-wing Likud party, Netanyahu will visit the U.S. on a brazen mission to boost his political prospects at home. This time, though, the stakes are much higher and the backlash increasingly serious.
But the speech in question comes at a very tense period in U.S-Israeli relations. The White House is attempting to negotiate a deal to regulate the Iranian nuclear program; Netanyahu's government is publicly and loudly opposing anything short of full disarmament.
At odds over Iran and Netanyahu's refusal to seriously engage with Palestinian leaders, the relationship between President Barack Obama and the Israeli government is publicly fraught. Still, the U.S. delivers more than $3 billion in military aid to Israel every year. Obama, despite his frosty relationship with Netanyahu, has been a stalwart supporter of the Jewish state both financially and in its assorted diplomatic spats.
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