Hamas's response to Netanyahu's deceitful US Congress speech

Hamas pointed out America’s full participation in the Gaza genocide, which it said was further affirmed by the invitation extended to Netanyahu.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gave a much-awaited address to the US Congress on Wednesday. As was expected, his speech was peppered with lies — over nine months after October 7, he still repeated the thoroughly debunked atrocity propaganda about beheaded babies and mass rapes — and gross distortions about the Israeli genocide in Gaza.

Like a mass of dogs, the members of the US Congress in attendance leapt to their feet and clapped like seals seemingly every time Netanyahu finished a sentence. One observer counted 58 standing ovations for the Israeli war criminal.

Among other things, Netanyahu labelled the tens of thousands of conscientious Americans protesting his presence on American soil, as Iran-funded terror apologists. None of the US Congress members, who are elected to represent the Americans Netanyahu was insulting, so much as protested his perverted characterisation of their fellow citizens, let alone excoriate him for his unhinged remarks. But then, the members of the Congress are well aware of which side of their challah is buttered.

In the wake of Netanyahu’s deranged vomitus on the floor of the US Congress, Hamas issued a statement setting the record straight and pointing out the absurdity of the “world’s greatest democracy” giving a war criminal a platform to unload his plethora of lies, just days after the International Court of Justice (ICJ) ruled that the Israeli occupation of the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and Gaza are criminal.

Hamas also pointed out America’s full participation in the Gaza genocide, which it said was further affirmed by the invitation extended to Netanyahu.

Here’s the Hamas statement in full (translated by Resistance News Network):

In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful

We in the Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas, have followed the speech of the Israeli terrorism government’s Prime Minister Netanyahu before Congress. Accordingly, we affirm the following:

First: Netanyahu should have been arrested as a war criminal and handed over to the International Criminal Court instead of being given the opportunity to polish his image before the world and cover up the mass killings and ethnic cleansing in the Gaza Strip.

Second: While the head of the terrorist occupation government leads a brutal war aimed at exterminating our Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip, violating all international laws, norms, and humanitarian treaties designed to protect civilians, in an unprecedent manner in modern history, the U.S. Congress welcomes a speech from war criminal Netanyahu, where he repeats the same degrading propaganda and lies he made over nine months ago, which have been proven false and were used as a pretext to commit the most heinous crimes against women, children, and the elderly in the Gaza Strip.

Third: Netanyahu tried to play on emotional strings, reverse facts, and promote false narratives about October 7, while Israeli and international investigations confirmed these allegations were false and that the Israeli army committed mass murders of Israeli civilians in the Gaza envelope.

Fourth: Netanyahu's speech reflects the depth of his military, security, and international crisis, as he tried to publicly cover it with the philosophy of defeats suffered by his army in Gaza, promoting imaginary victories by liberating a number of captives, forgetting the horrific massacres he committed against civilians in Rafah and Nusseirat during their liberation.

Fifth: Netanyahu's talk about intensive efforts to return the hostages is nothing but lies and deception of Israeli, American, and global public opinion, while he was the one who thwarted all efforts to end the war and make a deal to release the captives, despite the continuous efforts of mediators from Egypt and Qatar, and despite the flexibility and positivity shown by the [Hamas] movement, which holds him fully responsible for the consequences of this stance and the fate of the prisoners in the Gaza Strip.

Sixth: All human rights and humanitarian reports have confirmed that Netanyahu and his army committed acts of genocide and ethnic cleansing in Gaza, unprecedented in contemporary global wars, using starvation as a weapon, preventing aid from reaching, burning and destroying the Rafah land crossing, and killing many humanitarian workers, all of which confirm the falsity of his claims about aid entering the Strip’s residents.

Seventh: By continuing to provide all means of political and military support to the occupation, granting the government of Zionist terrorists the necessary cover to escape punishment, and providing it with a platform in Congress to wash the hands of fascist war criminals from the blood of innocent children, instead of holding them accountable for their crimes against humanity, Washington affirms its full partnership in the heinous violations committed in the Gaza Strip, from genocide, starvation, and destruction of all aspects of life, witnessed by the world with sound and image.

Eighth: We in the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) affirm that the war criminal Netanyahu’s visions for the future of the Gaza Strip are mere delusions and fantasies he is trying to market. The Palestinian people alone have the right to determine their fate and decide who governs them. They have decided to rally around the option of resistance and confront the occupation wherever it exists until it is swept away from our pure land and our independent Palestinian state is established with Al-Quds [Jerusalem] as its capital.

Ninth: Netanyahu’s attack on the Axis of Resistance reflects the depth of his military and security crisis due to the open fronts, which calls for more efforts from all arenas and fronts to inflict defeats on the criminal Zionist entity.

Tenth: We call on the United Nations, the Arab League, and the Organization of Islamic Cooperation to declare their stance rejecting the occupation and work to end it by all means, supporting the steadfastness of our Palestinian people and their resistance until our people can exercise their right of return and self-determination under international law, which the Nazi Zionist occupation violates.

Our patient and stationed Palestinian people and their heroic valiant resistance, who are facing a brutal war that represents the peak of the occupation’s failed attempts to eradicate them—which has been ongoing for more than 76 years—will continue, along with all forces of resistance and free people of the world, to confront this fascist aggression until it is broken and defeated from our land and sanctities.

Islamic Resistance Movement - Hamas
Wednesday, 18 Muharram 1446 AH
Corresponding to July 24, 2024 CE

In his deceitful speech, Netanyahu likened his genocidal country to a civilisation” fighting uncivilised barbarians, but the whole world sees who the barbarians in this genocide are. As Hamas Political Bureau member Izzat Al-Rishq remarked, “Civilisation is incompatible with occupation and its crimes, which have violated international laws and human values since 1948 to this day.”

The events from Wednesday are further illustration of the twisted world we inhabit where the barbarians get to rant and rave in the world’s most powerful legislature while the civilised issue remarkably astute and honest rebuttals from their tunnels.

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