He will become the first foreign leader to address a joint meeting of the two chambers four times.
JERUSALEM - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is to deliver a landmark speech to the US Congress on July 24 as he fights off intense pressure to quickly cut a Gaza war ceasefire deal with Hamas.
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on July 19 said that negotiators were “inside the 10-yard line and driving toward the goal line”. “This double pressure is not delaying the deal – it is advancing it,” he told troops in Gaza on July 18. Publicly, Mr Biden has voiced strong support for Israel. But he expressed concern over an offensive on the southern city of Rafah in May and for a while suspended deliveries of heavy bombs to Israel. Supplies of 2,000-pound bombs remain embargoed.
While US Republicans pressed to invite Mr Netanyahu to address Congress, he has lost support among Democrats. Mr Netanyahu also “will endeavour to shift the conversation away from the conflict in Gaza toward the threat that Iran and its proxies pose” to Israel and the United States, Dr Cook added.
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