Ro Khanna Won’t Attend Netanyahu’s Congressional Address
India-West News Dsk
WASHINGTON, DC – Rep. Ro Khanna has stated he will not attend Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s upcoming joint address to Congress which has been scheduled by the Republican controlled House.
The number of Democrats refusing to attend Netanyahu’s upcoming speech continues to rise. Many are citing Netanyahu’s previous address to Congress and the ongoing conflict in Gaza against Hamas as reasons for their decision.
Ro Khanna on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” said he agreed with Rep. James Clyburn (D-S.C.), who told News Nation that Netanyahu’s treatment of former President Barack Obama as his reason, stating he would “treat him the same way he treated Barack Obama.”
Netanyahu and Obama had a notably strained relationship, particularly in 2015 over issues like Palestinian statehood and the U.S. nuclear deal with Iran, The Hill pointed out. Even then, more than 50 Democrats boycotted Netanyahu’s 2015 address to Congress after Republican Speaker John Boehner invited him without consulting the Obama White House.
Ro Khanna said, “I will not attend that. I said that if he wants to come to speak to members of Congress about how to end the war and release hostages, I would be fine doing that. But I’m not going to sit in a one-way lecture.”
Anil
/
Ro forgets this is not India.
He represents all the people on his constituency that did not vote for him. He must attend all sessions of Congress. He collected a salary to do that and took an oath to administer his duties. Boycott is not the work of an elected representative.
You don’t like something. You speak up against it and you vote against it.
We don’t get paid for not working. Or dropping projects and work we don’t like. We get fired. And so you should not be paid but fired.
June 24, 2024Daljit Singh
/
To Khanna is a true statesman. He does what he believes in and he believes in what he does. Politics
June 24, 2024Is not a game of convenience. It is a well thought out design for maximum good for maximum number of people.