Standing ovations from U.S. lawmakers sent ‘a terrible signal’ to Israel’s neighbours, says analyst
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, is greeted by Senate Foreign Relations Chair Ben Cardin, D-Md., as he arrives to address a joint meeting of Congress, at the Capitol in Washington, on July 24.Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech to the U.S. Congress has sent ripples of anger across the Middle East, less for what he said than for the fact that Republicans and Democrats in attendance gave multiple standing ovations to a man accused of being a war criminal.
While little of what Mr. Netanyahu said to Congress was new, the rapturous applause from America’s elected representatives was shocking to many in the Middle East. Mr. Khan asked the pretrial chamber of the ICC in May to issue arrest warrants for war crimes and crimes against humanity allegedly committed by Mr. Netanyahu and his Defence Minister, Yoav Gallant, as well as Hamas leaders Yahya Sinwar, Mohammed al-Masri and Ismail Haniyeh. The pretrial chamber has not yet made a decision on whether to issue the warrants.
Mr. Netanyahu ordered the invasion of Hamas-ruled Gaza hours after the Islamist militants invaded southern Israel on Oct. 7, killing more than 1,100 people, most of them civilians. There was shock in Israel, too, at the adoration official Washington heaped on a politician who is extremely unpopular at home. Mr. Netanyahu has faced mass protests calling for him to stop the war and bring the hostages home, and to resign. Polls in Israel show him with a 30-per-cent approval rating.
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