(VINnews) — Senator John Fetterman, who has been one of the most staunch and outspoken supporters of Israel in the Senate, and by far the most pro-Israel Democrat, said the pro-Palestinian college protests are “working against peace in the Middle East.”
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Fetterman said recently that the encampments on college campuses were “pup tents” for Hamas. Host Margaret Brennan asked Fetterman on CBS’s “Face the Nation” about the protests, asking whether flying the Palestinian flag to be antisemitic.
“No, I don’t think that … but I will, I will say that these kinds of protests haven’t been helpful. And ironically, they are actually working against peace in [the] Middle East as well,” he said. “And it’s also very strange to me that now they’re not actually protesting for a cease-fire now, and there’s been a very valid cease-fire that’s been on the table now.”
“And Hamas has been refused to take that on, and I don’t know why we’re not — if we’re going to protesting why aren’t we protesting that they are demanding Hamas to take that kind of a cease-fire, and then that would end all of that — the trauma and the chaotic going on there in Gaza?” he added.
Fetterman continued to emphasize that the war could end if Hamas agreed to release all the hostages.
“Can’t forget that the situation right now could end right now, if Hamas just surrendered and they just sent all of those hostages home again. And that’s also the thing that I’ve been frustrated to is now, that those hostages should be really in front of the conversations about the situation in Gaza,” Fetterman added.
He’s a great example of “Never judge a book by its cover”. He should run for president! Such moral clarity against all opposition. That’s a quality of a leader.