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Back from Israel, 6 US House Dems accuse PM of ‘utter disregard’ for Palestinian lives

2024-03-03

[IsraelTimes] Six politicians, several with pro-Israel records, who traveled to Israel with J Street delegation blame Netanyahu for failure to get relief to Gazooks, call for release of hostages.

Given that J Street was involved — J Street being a wholly owned subsidiary of the Soros Foundations, founded to be an anti-Israel figleaf on the Progressive side as an alternative to AIPAC — the wonder is that they didn’t lovingly call for Israel to be burnt to the ground, root and branch.

Six US House of Representatives Democrats returned from an Israel trip accusing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of "utter disregard for Paleostinian lives" and fearing that he is moving toward Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
’s "total destruction."

The Democrats — including the most senior Democrat on the House appropriations committee, Rosa DeLauro of Connecticut — made the comments in a statement issued Friday. They represent the breadth of the party’s ideologies and include several with pro-Israel records.

The recommendations in the joint statement signed by DeLauro, Sean Casten of Illinois, Madeleine Dean of Pennsylvania, Becca Balint of Vermont, and Salud Carvajal and Mark Takano of Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, were in line with Biden’s policies, including a call for a six-week ceasefire to facilitate the release of all hostages held by Hamas
Hamas

...a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",...
and the entry of direly needed humanitarian assistance into the Gaza Strip.

But the tone was extraordinary, and could only be seen as a warning that Democrats in the House would continue to veer sharply away from Israel as long as Netanyahu is prime minister.

The six Democrats squarely blamed Netanyahu for the failure to get relief to the Paleostinians. The statement from the six Congress members condemns the October 7 massacre at the outset and called for the immediate release of the more than 130 hostages remaining captive, of whom about 100 are thought to remain alive.

The six politicians traveled to Israel as part of a delegation organized by J Street, the ~~liberal~~ ProgressiveJewish Middle East policy group that has affiliated political action committees.

DeLauro, who led the delegation, stands out: In addition to being the top Democrat on the powerful Appropriations Committee, she is a member of the House Democratic leadership and has in the past been close to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, the preeminent mainstream pro-Israel lobby. AIPAC’s affiliated political action committee has endorsed her. She is married to pollster Stanley Greenberg, who has been active in pro-Israel advocacy.

But the others are also significant: Casten in 2022 unseated Marie Newman in a primary, a victory propelled in part by pro-Israel anger at her policies. Carbajal is a member of the Problem Solvers Caucus, which unites moderates of both parties. Balint is Jewish and a member of the Progressive Congressional Caucus. Dean’s Philadelphia-area district has a substantial Jewish population.

Jeremy Ben-Ami, the J Street president who accompanied the delegation, said the politicians were moved by how officials across the spectrum — in Netanyahu’s government, in the opposition, and in the Paleostinian Authority — saw the US role as "indispensable."

"If the United States doesn’t lead some kind of a very large initiative to come out of this in a better place, nothing is going to happen," Ben-Ami said.

He said the six saw up close the devastation wrought by the October 7 attacks and their aftermath, staying in a hotel housing evacuees from Israel’s northern border, where Hezbollah is firing rockets into Israel in support of Hamas, both backed by Iran.

"The children are playing on the couches next to the members in the lobby as we’re getting ready to go on a tour," he said. "It’s in the breakfast hall in the morning. The families are getting ready for school and the members are there, getting food right next to them."

Posted by:trailing wife

#10 Cubans were donating clothes TO her

Posted by: Frank G 2024-03-03 18:04

She makes John Fetterman look like Fred Astaire.

Posted by: Besoeker 2024-03-03 17:18

#8 re: ^

How about contempt FOR congress?

Posted by: AlanC 2024-03-03 15:32

#7 Every time someone talks about "Contempt of Congress", they need to just post that picture!

Posted by: NoMoreBS 2024-03-03 13:42

#6 a muslim adheres to sharia law. that's what makes them muslim, sharia law says a female is worth less than a male. that is uncivilized. we need to deport or incarcerate uncivilized people.

Posted by: irish rage boy 2024-03-03 13:33

#5 They mean like the total disregard of Israeli lives on Oct 7? Do on to others as you would have others do upon you. It's being done.

Posted by: Procopius2k 2024-03-03 13:23

#4 ^^^ Oh, my, I remember that photo now. Creature is right!

Posted by: DooDahMan 2024-03-03 10:31

#3 Rosa De Lauro is a bag lady

Posted by: Frank G 2024-03-03 08:48

#2 I don't know or ever heard of any of those Congress creatures cited in green.

Posted by: DooDahMan 2024-03-03 00:58

#1 We should treat them the way you treat illegals?

Posted by: Grom the Reflective 2024-03-03 00:44

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