Bibi received a passionate reception from Congress and the media which came in spite of the fact that he was the man principally responsible for a horrific genocide being conducted against the Gazans and, more recently, unprovoked attacks on primarily civilian targets on the Palestinian West Bank as well as in neighboring Lebanon and Syria.

Admittedly, the soft landing by Netanyahu in the United States has been facilitated by the Israeli Lobby's corruption of congress by virtue of hundreds of millions of dollars liberally distributed among both Democrats and Republicans. And the same Jewish billionaires have also been adept at buying up media outlets to make sure that the portrayal of Israelis as perpetual victims is front and center when the American public watches the news or reads a newspaper.

And Israel's ownership of the US political class has been bipartisan, with President Joe Biden, who self-describes as a Zionist, fueling the slaughter in Gaza with money and weapons, followed by Trump's doing more of the same. And both presidents have been generous in providing political cover in bodies like the United Nations to make sure that Israel is never held accountable for all the crimes against humanity it commits.

By virtue of the Democratic and Republican largesse, Israel has received a virtual carte blanche in US support to include ignoring Israeli bombing of schools, hospitals and religious buildings, both Christian and Muslim. America was recently appalled when a school in Iran was bombed by the US, killing 165 little girls, but Israel has killed hundreds of times that many Gazan children without any consequences at all thanks to US support and even enabling of the war crimes being committed. Israel has also demonstrated its power in Washington in more practical ways to protect its politician friends, as, for example, when dissenting Democrats sought recently to pass a bill to force the Constitutionally and War Powers Act mandated congressional vote to declare the Iran war. It should have been a no-brainer to restore "rule of law" that has been totally ignored by Trump but the Republicans and some Democrats united to defeat it without really seeking to justify it in legal or constitutional terms. Nor was any attempt made to define a national security interest to justify the phony "threat" claims which had been produced that led to the initiation of the conflict in the first place.

Secretary of State and National Security Marco Rubio has perhaps revealed some aspects of the process whereby the war against Iran came about. Israel sees the destruction of Iran as a top national priority, so one might assume that the United States under Trump would go along with that presumption. It is generally believed that a war to destroy Iran such as it is now has been on the cards ever since the twelve-day war directed against it in June of last year. Per Rubio, the timing this time around was based on Israel's insistence that if the US did not join in an attack Israel would go it alone. There was concern in Washington that that would mean Iranian retaliation against US bases in the region whether the US was an attacker or not, so the decision was made to join Israel and preempt any Iranian "aggression."

Donald Trump somehow has reversed the Rubio explanation by stating that he himself forced the issue and pushed the Israelis to start of the war, not the other way around, but it appears to have been a typical Trump misspeak based on ignorance of what actually occurred. Secretary of War Pete "Call of Duty" Hegseth meanwhile reportedly supported Rubio in his assessment, though insiders believe that Warrior Pete would have been eager to attack anyone anytime just to demonstrate that he and his "killers" could do it. He also would like everyone to tell him that "he is doing a very good job!"