For the better part of an hour on Wednesday, it was possible to believe that the Western world had not lost its mind.
For some 54 minutes, Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told the U.S. Congress truth after truth about the war against Israel and demolished the malicious and grotesque accusations against it of war crimes and genocide.
In a magnificent, impassioned and pitch-perfect address, he roused Congress to its feet with at least 54 standing ovations.
They cheered and applauded when he declared that Israel’s battle against Iran was America’s battle.
They cheered and applauded when referring to U.S. intelligence that Iran was behind the pro-Hamas protests, he said those demonstrators “stand with evil” and are “Iran’s useful idiots.”
They cheered and applauded when, in a veiled reference to the Biden administration’s decision to slow down the supply of arms to Israel that Congress had mandated, Netanyahu said: “Give us the tools faster and we’ll finish the job faster.”
For the duration of…