WASHINGTON (JTA) — Six U.S. House of Representatives Democrats returned from an Israel trip accusing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of “utter disregard for Palestinian lives” and fearing that he is moving toward Gaza’s “total destruction.”
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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 statement came as President Joe Biden said he would airdrop assistance into the Gaza Strip after more than 100 Gaza Palestinians died during a chaotic aid delivery under disputed circumstances on Thursday.
Speaking briefly Friday with reporters in the Oval Office, Biden called the event “tragic and alarming.”
“We need to do more, and the United States will do more,” he said. “In the coming days, we’re going to join with our friends in Jordan and others who have provided air drops of additional food and supplies.”
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 California were in line with President Joe Biden’s policies, including a call for a six-week ceasefire to facilitate the release of all hostages held by Hamas and the entry of direly needed humanitarian assistance into the Gaza Strip. The six were on a trip organized by J Street, the liberal Jewish Middle East policy group.
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 Palestinians.
“We are deeply worried that Prime Minister Netanyahu is moving toward the total destruction of Gaza and has demonstrated an utter disregard for Palestinian lives,” the statement said. “Nearly 30,000 Palestinians have been killed – with almost 70,000 more injured and thousands missing. He has shamefully been unwilling to allow humanitarian services in at the scale needed.”
And yet liberal mis guide Jews will continue to elect these Jew haters to city state & national government. WAKE UP YIDDEN, they dont like you anymore than hitler Y’MS liked us. The half breed VP called for an immediate cease fire when speaking in Selma AL & the crowd roared approval. Guess who was in the crowd? Why didnt she call for an immediate cease fire when Jews where murdered & mutilated OCT 7th? To what ends did the USA go when retaliating against 9/11 murderers? No one called for a cease fire when 200K Japanese where incinerated in Hiroshima & nagasaki, The antisemite FDR went to war with Japan when 1900 US servicemen were killed in the Pearl Harbor attack. Show me the difference? Any Yid who votes for a demorat today should be put in chareim. Israel has the right, no the obligation to defend its citizens, to retaliate and vanquish the enemy. HaShem is with our brave chayalim and will continue his support in their courages effort to rid the world of these modern day barbarians. NO CEASE FIRE TILL EVERYONE OF THE INNOCENT HOSTAGES IS RELEASED
Palestinians havent shown any respect to Israel lives on Oct 7th
Democrat blood libel
Why is Israel allowing them into the country?
Let’s hope Gaza is completely destroyed and all Muslims sent packing
The Democrats are anti Israel hamas supporting scum.
A bunch of hypocrites. Did they venture to Ukraine? Afghanistan? They were sponsored by a Jew hating group j-street. What is there to expect?
Look also behind this story. The filthy 5th column Israeli leftists have spoken and encouraged them. Unfortunately, the seeming unity was short lived. The left is not only seeking to destroy Israel, but working with anti-Semites. Who do you think pushed Gantz to swim over and meet with Biden ?
And zero mention of how this all began, how Hamas is using its own people and human shields, how Hamas is torturing and abusing the hostages, etc??? Time to place a hyphen between the first 5 letters and the last 3 letter of that party’s name. Think democrat.
This is why we must vote reoublican. Boris shmuley doesn’t get it. yup yup the only concern right now is Israel and nothing else matters. Hold your nose and vote trump
just like the MERAGLIM
These liberal morons don’t have a clue what’s going despite being in Israel. Their tour guide was JStreet. Enough said
It was coordinated with Camala to announce and scream on Sunday for a ceasefire? Why this Sunday? Because sleepy joe guaranteed there would be a ceasefire by Monday. Remember that bit of wisdom from last week……
As long as hamas DOESN’T release ALL the hostages or/and DOESN’T surrender, all bets are off !!!
“The six were on a trip organized by J Street, the liberal Jewish Middle East policy group”…
Anything more need to be said?
“We are deeply worried that Prime Minister Netanyahu is moving toward the total destruction of Gaza and has demonstrated an utter disregard for Palestinian lives,”
They are moving toward the destruction of the usa. you can just see the hate on their ugly faces.
Primary all six.
Bleeding heart liberals, self hating jews
Face the facts,
Yes
He’s here to totally obliterate Gaza
That’s exactly the point
Nothing to hide
AIPAC will take them out like they will Bowman and AOC
There is a hard left element of Bernie Sanders supporters in this group.
J street aired rav jino traitors.
Missing from the story but evident from the picture: while in Israel all 6 Dems were kept on a strict diet of only prune juice.
“The six were on a trip organized by J Street, the liberal Jewish Middle East policy group”.
That’s all you need to know folks. With Jews like these, who needs enemies?
They have the words liberal, activist, weirdo written all over their face.
This is election year positioning at its worst. Biden has very bad poll numbers now and he is doing anything he can to win over the far Left
Salud Carvajal?
Made these six and all the rest of their party drop dead speedily in our days.
Palestinians ( is there such a word) don’t either care about Palestinians. Rest of Muslims don’t care about them.so why should bibi care about them.
These people accused Netanyahu of not caring about the lives of Gazans. None of you commenters care about the lives of Gazan as your comments show. So you agree that Netanyahu does not care about Gazans. So why are these people who merely commented the obvious, why are the wrong for stating facts that all of you agree on?