Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s upcoming address to Congress is an insult to all Americans. The Israeli right wing leader was invited to speak to a joint session of lawmakers on Capitol Hill by Speaker of the House John Boehner, who does not have the constitutional power to dwell in foreign policy.

The Republican speaker violated the Constitution and insulted President Obama to appease to the head of a foreign state. But the political aims of Netanyahu’s visit are more dangerous than breaching diplomatic protocols. The Israeli PM plans to lobby Congress to block Obama’s negotiations to reach a peaceful agreement on the Iranian nuclear program.

New sanctions on Iran, which would violate the preliminary agreement, could deal a fatal blow to the nuclear talks. 

Obama has vowed to veto any attempts by Congress to impose sanctions. However, with two thirds of the votes in Congress, lawmakers can override the president’s veto. Netanyahu will try to pin as many lawmakers as possible against the president. 

No foreign leader has ever before bullied our political process in such a manner. 

The Israeli prime minister is adamant on dragging our country into an unjustified war with Iran. He has spoken out openly against the negotiations and unashamedly intervened in American affairs when he backed Republican candidate Mitt Romney for president in 2012 for having a hard line take on Iran.

However, Netanyahu knows that his rhetoric and fear-mongering against Iran are false. Israel and the United States are not under threat by the Iranian nuclear program. The Israeli PM showed up at the UN General Assembly in 2012 with a ridiculous diagram which alleged that Iran is 10 percent away from building a nuclear weapon. 

He is a liar trying to fool the world to enhance his own political agenda.

Even Israel’s spy agency the Mossad contradicts the prime minister’s claims. Iran is “not performing the activity necessary to produce weapons” reads a leaked cable by the Mossad in 2012, which was published by British newspaper the Guardian this week.  

President Obama has refused to meet with his Israeli counterpart, citing concerns over influencing the Israeli elections, which will take place in mid-March. Several Congressional Democrats have decided to not show up for Netanyahu’s speech. 

Republicans are a hopeless case. They will do anything to spite Obama, even if it amounted to undermining, dividing and humiliating the United States’ government and people. 

We urge our representatives in Congress, namely Reps. Debbie Dingell, John Conyers and Brenda Lawrence, and Senators Gary Peters and Debbie Stabenow, to both boycott Netanyahu’s speech and condemn it. 

More than 95 percent of Dearborn’s Arab Americans voted for Peters and Dingell in the last election. Don’t let down your voters. Don’t let down your president. Don’t let down your country.