U.S. House Speaker John Boehner, an opponent of President Obama's on almost everything, including sanctions against Iran, invited Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, also an opponent of Obama's on Iran sanctions, to address a joint session of Congress. Netanyahu accepted without coordinating with the White House. Netanyahu is going over the head of the President of the United States to speak to the people of the United States. This is a stark example of the arrogance of the Israel Lobby in the United States. And a stark example that Benjamin Netanyahu is an ass.
Israel has got its own nuclear weapons. It conducts its own foreign policy. It spies on the United States, and vice versa. If it disagrees with the American policy toward Iran it should take the action it thinks in its national interest. Israel should not be lobbying the United States to act for it. It has been 65 years? Far past the time for Israel to be a grown up, to cease being a dependent, to fight its own battles.
