[Salon] House Speaker McCarthy: If Biden doesn’t invite Netanyahu to Washington, I will – The Forward



Happy Days are here again! Given the zealous Zionism of the so-called “House Freedom Caucus,” and all the Republican POTUS candidates, especially the two Leaders, and the National Conservatives at the many "American conservative" media platforms, many having come into existence to celebrate and promote “Trumpism,” it won’t be long now before Netanyahu the Great will address a Joint Session of Congress again!

I "personalize” Trumpism by name only in that Trump remains the "symbol” for the extreme right-wing ideology he brought electoral success to, and took to an even more extreme point on the right-wing spectrum than had the Republicans previously, with so much “ideology building” help from his main ‘theorists,” the Straussians at Claremont Institute, Hillsdale College, and one of the media platforms they successfully took over, for the most part, The American Conservative magazine, by way of the Claremont Fellows who were brought on as “Editors.” 

In the case of Trump, with all the aforementioned right-wing groups, he quickly became so popular with them because he fulfilled their “hopes” for “Radical-Right change” first articulated on the pages of National Review magazine by 3 former CIA officers in the 1950s. Which would add to the already militaritic wing of the Democrats, the pre-existing Andrew Jackson wing, with the addition of the Goldwater inspired "Scoop Jackson wing.” More accurately defined as Goldwaterites, as with Hilary Clinton and now Joe Biden with their all-out militarism. But Trump and the Trumpites (the “New Right”) have a shared ideology with the Israeli Radical-Right, a “consensus,” helped along by U.S. billionaires behind the Tikvah Fund and Kohelet Forum, and Yoram Hazony! Leading to the question of how long will it be before we once again have Netanyahu speaking to Congress as he did in 2015, as described here: https://mondoweiss.net/2015/04/conservative-revolutionaries-fascism/? I will bet “not long.” 

The only change I would make to that article, which unfortunately I believe has held up all too well, is to describe Germany’s “Conservative Revolutionary Movement,” as “fascist,” not merely “proto-fascist,” as they too were on that same “right-wing spectrum” as other fascists, just not as far along to the Right as their "competitors,” the Nazis were. And front and center to the "Conservative Revolutionary fascist ideology,” was the ideology of Carl Schmitt, Peter Thiel’s favorite German ideologist, along with the German emigre, Leo Strauss. Which for Schmitt, before 1933, didn’t include “anti-semitism,” which is how he is defended by the likes of National Conservative favorite, Adrian Vermeule. Which would get Schmitt in trouble later with the SS, to include evidence of his friendship with fellow Conservative Revolutionarly/fascist, Jewish German Leo Strauss. Who would add his “ideas” to already existing “Conservative” (Militarist/anti-rights) ideas in the U.S., culminating in the present candidacies of the two leading Republican candidates for POTUS. With those ideas, as “political theory,”  now broadly agreed upon by their anticipated Democratic (in the manner defined by one of the National Review founders) opponent. Leaving the U.S. in a continued state of Perpetual War, as that is what Schmitt’s/Strauss’s, and their disciples, political theory calls for: the “necessity” of the endless “Friend/Enemy distinction,” called for by these fascists, and fully visible as U.S. foreign policy!   

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> US House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (L) and his Israeli counterpart Amir Ohana hold a bilateral meeting at the Israeli parliament, in Jerusalem on April 30, 2023. (Photo by Getty)
> By Ben Samuels <https://forward.com/authors/ben-samuels/> May 1, 2023
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> This article originally appeared on Haaretz <https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2023-04-30/ty-article/.premium/house-speaker-mccarthy-if-biden-doesnt-invite-netanyahu-to-washington-i-will/00000187-d379-d6a1-ad87-fb79035c0000>, and was reprinted here with permission. Sign up here <http://htz.li/6V1> to get Haaretz’s free Daily Brief newsletter delivered to your inbox.
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>  U.S. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy on Sunday said that he would soon invite Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to Washington should U.S. President Joe Biden continue to refuse extending such an offer.
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> Speaking to Israel Hayom, the daily owned by Republican megadonor Miriam Adelson, McCarthy said “if that [a visit to the White House] doesn’t happen, I’ll invite the prime minister <https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2023-04-30/ty-article/.premium/u-s-house-speaker-mccarthy-lands-in-israel-for-historic-knesset-address/00000187-d285-d9b4-abaf-fabf22490000> to come meet with the House. He’s a dear friend, as a prime minister of a country that we have our closest ties with.”
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> Netanyahu has been growing increasingly irritated about the lack of invitation to the White House, the longest a U.S. administration has gone without extending such an invitation to an Israeli prime minister upon assuming office. Biden explicitly noted that such an invitation is not expected anytime soon amid his rare public rebuke of Netanyahu <https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2023-03-28/ty-article/.premium/u-s-president-biden-israel-cant-continue-to-go-down-this-road/00000187-29e6-ded8-ade7-fbefb6800000> amid his proposed overhaul of Israel’s judicial system.
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> McCarthy, who is currently in Israel to address the Knesset, added that “I think it’s too long now. He should invite him soon” when asked about a potential timeline for a Biden invitation. The House speaker linked Biden’s treatment of Netanyahu to his own ongoing clashes with the president over the U.S. debt ceiling, saying “President Biden hasn’t talked to me about the debt ceiling for the last 80 some days so. I think he, the prime minister, might be in good company if he treats me the same way.”
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> This is the first time McCarthy has commented on a potential Netanyahu invitation, using his platform to instead attack Biden for rebuking Netanyahu while declining to comment on the judicial overhaul itself.
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> McCarthy will be the second-ever U.S. House speaker to address the Knesset. In many ways, his visit is a culmination of recent decades in American politics relating to Israel, where Republicans have adopted increasingly pro-Israel sentiments <https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2023-04-13/ty-article/.highlight/netanyahus-likud-trumps-gop-it-looks-bad-but-in-reality-its-even-worse/00000187-79cb-d484-adef-fbcf62fb0000> in foreign politics while also being mindful of the domestic impact with evangelical Christian voters. His visit also comes as he faces his first true as speaker with Biden, complicating Netanyahu’s optics days after encountering a similar problem with Florida Governor Ron DeSantis.
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> The apparent invitation and McCarthy’s visit invoke memories of Netanyahu addressing a joint session of Congress in March 2015, coordinated by then-Israel Ambassador to the U.S. Ron Dermer, then-House Speaker John Boehner and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell. The planning and speech itself upended domestic and international protocol, leading 58 Democratic lawmakers to boycott Netanyahu’s address, in support of the Obama administration. The event was seen as the peak of Israel’s emergence as a partisan issue where Republicans have adopted increasingly pro-Israel sentiments in both foreign and domestic politics.
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> In the years since, supporters of Israel’s concerns that Netanyahu’s political strategy has expedited the process of Israel – long a beneficiary of bipartisan support – evolving into a divisive issue. A recent Gallup poll noted that Democrats are more sympathetic to Palestinians than Israelis. It also found for the first time that Republican totals on the matter are largely static, with 78 percent supporting Israel and 11 percent supporting Palestinians or having no opinion.


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