Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s planned speech to a joint session of Congress on March 3 is already provoking numerous reactions against his use of American politics to promote himself in the runup to the March 17 Knesset election.
His supporters, on the other hand, claim that in the struggle against a nuclear Iran, which they claim threatens Israel’s very existence, the end justifies the means, even when the means are a direct confrontation with the US president. They believe that a leader who believes that his small country is fighting for its life not only has the right to use all the tools at his disposal to avert a disaster, but is duty bound to do so. It is only fitting that every US politician who views himself as a “friend of Israel” should also step up and stand by Israel in its hour of need.
