South Asia Center Nonresident Senior Fellow Barbara Slavin writes for Al Jazeera America on the controversy surrounding Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s scheduled appearance before the US Congress next week:
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s scheduled appearance before the U.S. Congress next Tuesday will be the “speech of his life,” an Israeli official in Washington told Al-Jazeera.
Rejecting pleas from many of Israel’s most reliable supporters in the United States to avoid playing politics with a vital strategic relationship, the Israeli prime minister is expected to strike a Churchillian pose. He’ll brand an impending nuclear agreement between world powers and Iran as another Munich 1938 — appeasement of an aggressive regime, which Netanyahu insists is determined to make nuclear weapons in order to destroy Israel.