Americans oppose Netanyahu invite nearly 2-to-1, and Herzog urges him to cancel

posted on: Feb 18, 2015

Spiegel online interviewed Isaac Herzog, the Labor leader in the election campaign in Israel. He says that Benjamin Netanyahu should cancel his scheduled speech to Congress next month:

I think it is totally unnecessary. He should cancel this speech. This appearance in Congress is adverse to Israeli interests and will only hamper further the relations between the government of Israel and the US administration.

An important CNN poll is out showing that overwhelmingly Americans regard the invitation to Netanyahu to speak to both house of Congress to attempt to overturn our president’s policy re Iraq as inappropriate, 63 to 33,  and that young people have more progressive views of the conflict than older ones. From CNN:

A large majority of Americans believe that Republican congressional leaders should not have invited Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to speak to Congress without consulting the White House, according to a new CNN/ORC survey.

The nationwide poll, released Tuesday, shows 63% of Americans say it was a bad move for congressional leadership to extend the invitation without giving President Barack Obama a heads up that it was coming. Only 33% say it was the right thing to do.

“The endgame on Iran is coming, and that’s what’s driving this,” Aaron David Miller says to Wolf Blitzer, at the link. (One pro Israel guy talking to another, that’s the discourse.)

The CNN poll– 1000 people between Feb. 12-15–  also shows greater distance from Israel among young people.

Source: mondoweiss.net