Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) re-upped his vow to boycott “war criminal” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s address to Congress and again slammed the leader’s handling of the Israel-Ha…
  • Ensign_Crab@lemmy.worldEnglish
    45·
    6 months ago

    Schumer was one of the people who invited Netanyahu to directly and publicly provide his employees with their marching orders.

    • JimSamtanko@lemm.ee
      32·
      6 months ago

      provide his employees with their marching orders.

      Care to provide evidence of this??

      • Ensign_Crab@lemmy.worldEnglish
        53·
        6 months ago

        That congress does whatever Netanyahu wants? They overwhelmingly voted against conditioning aid to Israel while Netanyahu was obviously committing a genocide.

        • JimSamtanko@lemm.ee
          46·
          6 months ago

          So… no proof then. Admit you’re here with misinformation, and we can move on.

          • Ensign_Crab@lemmy.worldEnglish
            44·
            6 months ago

            I offered my rationale for my statement. Which was a formality since you intended to dismiss in bad faith anything I said.

              • Ensign_Crab@lemmy.worldEnglish
                33·
                6 months ago

                Oh no. You baselessly declared victory after dismissing my comment in bad faith. How will I survive?

                • JimSamtanko@lemm.ee
                  33·
                  6 months ago

                  Bad faith? I simply asked you to support your statement with proof. Are you so delicate that your rhetoric can’t even be scrutinized without becoming a victim?

                  • Ensign_Crab@lemmy.worldEnglish
                    13·
                    6 months ago

                    I provided my rationale. You dismissed it, and you were going to dismiss it regardless of what I said. That’s bad faith.

                    without becoming a victim?

                    Republicans insist that anyone who disagrees with them is playing the victim.

    • jordanlund@lemmy.worldM
      34·
      6 months ago

      Reported as misinformation. Please Google before hitting the report button.

      https://apnews.com/article/israel-netanyahu-war-gaza-congress-596b0adf6ed8f71ccaaecccec8b9d341

      “The invitation from House Speaker Mike Johnson, a Republican, and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, a Democrat, along with Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell and House Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries, has been in the works for some time. No date for the speech was set.”

      • Ensign_Crab@lemmy.worldEnglish
        51·
        6 months ago

        The article you linked to indicates that Schumer’s invite to Netanyahu came after it was clear that Netanyahu was committing genocide:

        Johnson first suggested inviting the Israeli leader, saying it would be “a great honor of mine” to invite him. That came soon after Schumer, who is the highest ranking Jewish elected official in the U.S., had delivered a stinging rebuke of Netanyahu. Schumer said in the speech that Netanyahu had “lost his way” amid the Israeli bombing campaign in Gaza.

        Even so, Schumer had said he would join in the invitation because “our relationship with Israel is ironclad and transcends any one prime minister or president.”

        Schumer invited Netanyahu AFTER the genocide commenced. I’m confident that my comment was not misinformation.