Congress Sends an Invitation to Benjamin Netanyahu
What a story the Israeli prime minister has to tell — and he’s the only one with the standing to tell it.
The invitation to address a joint meeting of Congress sent to Prime Minister Netanyahu from Speaker Johnson and Senator Schumer sets up a moment that could be even more dramatic even than Mr. Netanyahu’s speech to Congress in 2015. That made the Israeli leader only the second statesman to have addressed America’s legislature three times — the other being Winston Churchill. Mr. Netanyahu would be the only one to have addressed it four times.
What a story he has to tell. The invitation comes in the face of President Biden’s plan for a ceasefire. That plan is best understood not as an effort to end the Gaza war but as an attempt to end the national unity government of Mr. Netanyahu. Its three-phases promises a “durable peace.” The first mandates a “complete ceasefire.” The second hopes for a “permanent end to hostilities.” Next, “reconstruction.” Nowhere is an end to Hamas required — or contemplated.
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