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Last month, a bipartisan group of top lawmakers invited Netanyahu to deliver an address to a joint session of Congress on July 24 in an effort to highlight thein response to Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack that killed about 1,200 people and abducted roughly 250, half of whom were released during a temporary cease-fire last year.— mostly women and children — displaced the majority of the population of 2.
“I will not attend. I said that if he wants to come to speak to members of Congress about how to end the war and release hostages, I would be fine doing that,” Khanna, who serves on the House Armed Services Committee,"I'm not going to sit in a one-way lecture. … How he treated treated President Obama, he should not expect reciprocity.”Khanna’s comments follow those of South Carolina Rep.
The lawmaker was referring to when Netanyahu was invited by Republicans to speak to Congress in 2015 — near the end of Obama’s second term —“I agree with Rep. Clyburn. I mean, how treated President Obama, he should not expect reciprocity,” Khanna said Sunday. “That said, I think it should be polite, and we’re not going to make a big deal about it. He’s obviously addressing the Congress, and there has to be decorum.
“What we are seeing now is starvation and famine impacting thousands and thousands of children,” he continued. “The architect of that policy is not somebody you honor by bringing to the United States Congress.” Sanders has said that he would not attend a speech before a joint session of Congress by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, citing the leader's role in the ongoing military offensive in Gaza that has killed tens of thousands of Palestinians.
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