WASHINGTON on July 22nd – – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) today issued the following statement in advance of Netanyahu’s address by Prime Minister Benjamin Trumpet to a joint session of Congress this week:

As I said in my last post as I said last month, I will not attend the address by Benjamin Netanyahu to Congress on Wednesday.

I am in agreement with the prosecutor of both the International Criminal Court (ICC) as well as the United Nations independent commission that both Benjamin Netanyahu and Yahya Sinwar are war criminals. Hamas under the leadership of Sinwar launched this war with an incredibly brutal attack on Israel that killed over 1200 innocent women, men and children. It also held over 240 captives.

In the aftermath, Netanyahu and his right-wing extreme government have waged a an unending war against the Palestinian population and killed at least 39,000 Palestinians and injuring 89,000, sixty percent of them women or children. The rest are older individuals. Additionally Netanyahu’s Netanyahu regime has rendered living conditions in Gaza by destroying homes, physical infrastructure, as well the health system. Each university was hit with 88 per cent of school buildings have been destroyed. In the present, as a result of the current limitations regarding humanitarian help, 495,000 people are facing extreme level of insecurity regarding food. that is to say they’re starving.

No. Netanyahu shouldn’t be welcomed to Congress. United States Congress. In fact his policies on Gaza in Gaza and the West Bank and his refusal to back a two-state resolution must be firmly condemned. My opinion is that his extreme right-wing government shouldn’t receive any more cents or dime of U.S. taxpayer support to continue the brutal destruction of Gaza.