Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) says Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu should not have been invited to address Congress.

Republican congressional leaders announced Thursday evening that Netanyahu will address Congress in a joint meeting on July 24th. Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) released a statement claiming the “bipartisan, bicameral meeting symbolizes the U.S. and Israel’s enduring relationship.”

During an interview on Friday, Pelosi told CNN anchor Dana Bash that she “absolutely” would not have invited Netanyahu to the Capitol if she was still speaker. She then suggested that Netanyahu may lose his position as prime minister by July.

Benny Gantz, a member of Israel’s security cabinet, is expected to announce his resignation from the council on Saturday evening due to differences with Netanyahu regarding the Gaza war.

PERINO: If you were still speaker, would you have invited him?

PELOSI: No. Absolutely not. Absolutely not.  I think this is wrong. Frankly, I didn’t approve of his being invited the last time. But the speaker, just on his own, invited him without consulting with the rest of the leadership. And he came and he criticized, President Obama for the masterful work that he had done with the nuclear agreement regarding Iran to stop them from developing a nuclear weapon. And I thought it was completely inappropriate. I feel it’s very sad that he has been invited, but who knows by then why he still be prime minister? What is Benny Gantz going to be saying tomorrow? What’s happening?

Everything I read is that they’re unhappy about this or unhappy about that. Not not just Benny, but other members of his cabinet. I wish that he would be a statesman and do what is right for Israel. We all love Israel. We thought October seventh was terrible. Hamas is a terrorist organization. They’re dedicated to the destruction of Israel. The hostages are not free. The people of Gaza are suffering. We need to help them and not have him stand in the way of that for such a long time. He being Netanyahu. So I think it’s just I think it’s going to invite more of what we have seen in terms of discontent among our own people… Let’s try to have a two state solution to make it to make it make peace, in the region, rather than coming, to the capital to draw protesters.

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