Netanyahu’s Speech in US Congress, Full of Distortions and Lies (Part Two)

Reports from several news outlets across the world after Netanyahu’s speech in Congress asserted that what he said to US lawmakers on this past Wednesday was full of distortions and fabricated lies.

• Israel has provided more than enough food for Gazans since the war started!

“The prosecutor of the international criminal court has shamefully accused Israel of deliberately starving the people of Gaza. This is utter, complete nonsense. It’s a complete fabrication. Israel has enabled more than 40,000 aid trucks to enter Gaza. That’s half a million tons of food!” Netanyahu said, adding also that “if there are Palestinians in Gaza who aren’t getting enough food, it’s not because Israel is blocking it, it’s because Hamas is stealing it.”

the Israeli Prime Minister failed to mention, however, that every report from UN and other international bodies suggest he is lying, and that the Israeli forces have deliberately blocked aid deliveries into the Gaza Strip, or deliberately damage the goods.

According to a UN report, 28,018 aid trucks have entered Gaza since the war began. But since then, only 2,835 trucks have been allowed by Israel to enter through the Kerem Shalom crossing in the south and Erez in the north – delivering a tiny fraction of the aid needed to the Gazans.

Earlier this year, the world’s leading authority on famine, the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification, even warned that due to aid blockade by Israel, Gaza was on the brink of famine. Relief organizations have also accused Israel of blocking aid from entering Gaza on purpose, imposing arbitrary and ever-changing restrictions on what is allowed to enter the Strip.

Back in April, the World Food Program (WFP) issued a report, revealing that throughout the month, “only 392 food trucks were allowed to enter Gaza,” debunking Israeli claims of allowing increased humanitarian aid of 300 on average per day into the Strip.

• US citizens are supportive of Israel in its war with Hamas in Gaza!

Netanyahu said during his Wednesday speech in US Congress that “the vast majority of Americans have not fallen for this Hamas propaganda, and they continue to support Israel.”

This is yet another lie he told to the face of hundreds of US lawmakers that day. The truth is that poll after poll has indicated how the majority of US citizens disapprove the war in Gaza.

The Gallup poll released in March, for example, found that 55 percent of respondents disapproved of the Israeli military’s actions in the Gaza Strip, up from 45 percent who said they disapproved in November, a month after Israel began its operation. Among Democratic Party voters, the percentage was even higher, with 75 percent of respondents expressing a negative view of Israel’s actions, while 60 percent of independents also said they disapproved.

US public and politicians disapprove Netanyahu!

But it is not just the American people who disapprove Israel’s war in Gaza. Prominent figures in the US Congress, including Senators Bernie Sanders and Nancy Pelosi, also criticized Netanyahu’s speech. “This will be the first time in American history that a war criminal has been given such an honor,” Sanders wrote on his X page. “He should not have been welcomed into the United States Congress.”

Nancy Pelosi, the former speaker of the United States House of Representatives, also wrote in a post on the X channel that “Benjamin Netanyahu’s presentation today in the House of Representatives was by a wide margin the worst presentation among foreign officials invited to address the United States Congress.”

Rashida Tlaib, the only Palestinian-American representative of the Congress, also protested Netanyahu’s presence in the Congress by holding a double-sided placard with the text “war criminal” on one side and “criminal of genocide” on the other.