House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) described US support for Israel as one of America’s “founding principles” during a speech at an event hosted by the Republican Jewish Committee on July 18.
“It is an important principle that America and Israel stand together resolutely. That is part of who we are as a country. It’s one of our founding principles. I believe that we maintain peace through strength, and I think that the relationship with Israel is essential to who we are as Americans,” Johnson said.
Since the modern state of Israel was created in 1948, it’s unclear what Johnson meant when he said the US-Israel relationship is a “founding principle.” The most well-known Founding Fathers would also disagree with Johnson since they strongly warned against permanent alliances and “attachments” to other nations.
In his farewell address in 1796, George Washington said, “A passionate attachment of one nation for another produces a variety of evils. Sympathy for the favorite nation, facilitating the illusion of an imaginary common interest in cases where no real common interest exists and infusing into one the enmities of the other, betrays the former into a participation in the quarrels and wars of the latter, without adequate inducement or justification.”
Johnson also threatened Democratic lawmakers with possible arrest if they protest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s address to Congress, which is scheduled for this Thursday.
“There’s a number of Democrats in the House who have said they are going to boycott the event, and then some others are gonna protest,” he said. “We’re gonna have extra sergeants at arms on the floor, and if anybody gets out of hand the Speaker of the House will bang the gavel. We’re gonna arrest people if we have to do it. We’re gonna get the message out.”
Johnson was probably handed this notion by a Think-Tank, a Think-Tank that’s asking each other: “How can we incite the people, annoy them, infuriate them?” They rub this absurdity in our faces thinking we aren’t smart enough to see through it. What will they affirm next? The founding fathers want us to praise and participate in genocide?!! There is no absurdity they won’t stop at. Inversion. Double-speak. Lies.
One other thing Mike Johnson said:
“In their admonitions to us, the Founders were very clear that to maintain a republic like ours, to maintain a constitutional republic – a government of, by, and for the people – there has to be a consensus on virtue and morality.”
Where were they clear about this, Mike. Certainly not in Article 1.
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