Congressional aides told HuffPost a May 8 letter from Israel's ambassador was “stunning,” “embarrassing” and “verging on offensive.”
One week after Israel’s ambassador to the U.S. sent dozens of Democrats in the House of Representatives an unprecedented rebuke, congressional staff say they’re still fuming over the letter, a note that accused lawmakers of aiding the Palestinian militant group Hamas, of misrepresenting Israeli policy and of inappropriately trying to influence President Joe Biden.
“It really is a stunning document,” said one Democratic staffer. “The tone of this letter is not reflective of the fact that the U.S. is the primary guarantor of Israel’s security. An unaware reader would assume that Israel is the superpower in this relationship and the U.S. the recipient of aid.”
Multiple parts of Herzog’s message were “verging on offensive,” argued another Democratic aide, pointing as an example to an assertion that Congress is overlooking the brutal Hamas-led attack on Israel on Oct. 7.
“It seems that Hamas’s massive invasion on October 7th, its ruthless massacre of Israelis and the kidnapping of hostages to Gaza have been too easily forgotten,” the ambassador wrote in his message, which Politico first reported on.
“Never before have we received such a harsh letter from the Israeli government. But then again, never before have we been so critical of their actions,” the second aide said.
A third aide to another legislator who signed the congressional letter highlighted both Herzog’s Oct. 7 claim and his suggestion that House Democrats were aiding Hamas as particularly disturbing.
This is reminiscent of the Bush argument the Iraq War: "if you're not with us you're with the terrorists."
How did that work out?
None of this matters in the new landscape. The American public is increasingly going to turn on this corruption and this chokehold Israel has on our government. The cherry picking and ignoring of countless dead children by our own bombs will be what changes history.
@DopeyCordialDemocrat2wks2W
Netanyahu will do anything to help Trump win. This isn't tension with an honest ally, it's tension with a very troublesome client state that is actively interfering in US politics. Bibi is putting Israel's future at stake trying to save his cowardly skin.
It take them this long to finally realize now United states is not a sovereign state, but a client state of Israel.
@SteadfastMandat3Green2wks2W
The endless screaming of "YOU HATE US DON'T YOU, GIVE US BOMBS YOU **** ING ANTISEMITE" has *got* to wear down everyone eventually
@F1libusterJakeSocialist2wks2W
Remember that before Romney blurted out that they're banning TikTok to cover Israel, he bemoaned just how terrible Israel's PR is
Israel's PR strategy of arrogant, threatening, bloodthirsty victimization has been a historically bad one, completely turning public opinion on its head in record time. Glad to see this is the exact same PR strategy they're using on congress
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