Congress pets

The US Congress's pet pariah / Franklin Lamb
...As never before. the international community, increasingly appalled and angered by Israeli crimes is pulling back from supporting or trying to justify Israel’s actions and is shifting attention to the rights of Palestinians to live in their own country, to return from their Nakba-caused refugee “sanctuaries” in more than 60 countries and to recognize the state of Palestine; this as some in the international community prepare to escort Israel before the bar of international justice. But not in the US Congress which is some ways has become a grotesque caricature of what James Madison and the founding fathers wanted and, perhaps naively, as it has turned out, believed they had created.
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