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In reply to the discussion: 🚨🚨🚨BREAKING: President Biden tells @ErinBurnett that if Israel invades the city of Rafah, the U.S. will stop supplyi [View all]lapucelle
(18,466 posts)74. Didn't your good friend who worked on the campaign know Fetterman's stance in 2022?
John Fetterman says hell lean in on U.S.-Israel relationship as senator
Matthew Kassel
April 11, 2022
John Fetterman, the lieutenant governor of Pennsylvania and the Democratic frontrunner in next months high-profile Senate primary, said he was eager to affirm his unwavering commitment to bolstering ties between the United States and Israel in an interview with Jewish Insider on Thursday, emphasizing that he will lean in on such efforts if he is elected to the upper chamber this November.
Whenever Im in a situation to be called on to take up the cause of strengthening and enhancing the security of Israel or deepening our relationship between the United States and Israel, Im going to lean in, Fetterman declared in his first conversation with a Jewish publication since he launched his campaign more than a year ago. The relationship is a special one that needs to be safeguarded, protected, supported and nurtured through legislation and all available diplomatic efforts in the region.
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During the interview, Fetterman took special pains, it seemed, to do just that, at one point anticipating a question about U.S. funding for Israel before it had been posed to him. Let me just say this, even if Im asked or not, I was dismayed by the Iron Dome vote, Fetterman said, alluding to a small cohort of far-left House members who, last September, opposed legislation that would provide $1 billion to replenish Israels missile-defense system following the conflict last May with Hamas in Gaza. I would never vote in that regard.
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Fetterman said he is equally passionate in his opposition to the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement targeting Israel. Its just wrong, he said. Israel is our closest ally and friend in the region, and I do not believe that is anything productive that enhances not only Israels security but the regions security through that proces
Matthew Kassel
April 11, 2022
John Fetterman, the lieutenant governor of Pennsylvania and the Democratic frontrunner in next months high-profile Senate primary, said he was eager to affirm his unwavering commitment to bolstering ties between the United States and Israel in an interview with Jewish Insider on Thursday, emphasizing that he will lean in on such efforts if he is elected to the upper chamber this November.
Whenever Im in a situation to be called on to take up the cause of strengthening and enhancing the security of Israel or deepening our relationship between the United States and Israel, Im going to lean in, Fetterman declared in his first conversation with a Jewish publication since he launched his campaign more than a year ago. The relationship is a special one that needs to be safeguarded, protected, supported and nurtured through legislation and all available diplomatic efforts in the region.
snip=========================
During the interview, Fetterman took special pains, it seemed, to do just that, at one point anticipating a question about U.S. funding for Israel before it had been posed to him. Let me just say this, even if Im asked or not, I was dismayed by the Iron Dome vote, Fetterman said, alluding to a small cohort of far-left House members who, last September, opposed legislation that would provide $1 billion to replenish Israels missile-defense system following the conflict last May with Hamas in Gaza. I would never vote in that regard.
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Fetterman said he is equally passionate in his opposition to the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement targeting Israel. Its just wrong, he said. Israel is our closest ally and friend in the region, and I do not believe that is anything productive that enhances not only Israels security but the regions security through that proces
https://jewishinsider.com/2022/04/john-fetterman-says-hell-lean-in-on-u-s-israel-relationship-as-senator/
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🚨🚨🚨BREAKING: President Biden tells @ErinBurnett that if Israel invades the city of Rafah, the U.S. will stop supplyi [View all]
demmiblue
May 8
OP
And most are not, so we just chalk up the majority, most women and childern, as collateral damage...
brush
May 9
#58
My point still exists. Further negotiations are closer to agreement on both side that ever before.
brush
May 9
#75
My resistance is to misinformation being repeated to the point where it becomes disinformation.
lapucelle
May 10
#76
Is a deal closer than ever now or not. It's certainly not time to star fighting/surging into Rafah again.
brush
May 10
#77
Hamas's propaganda concerning a ceasefire was called out by the US Department of State.
lapucelle
May 10
#78
Thank you Joe! He knows how to lead. Bibi has been PM for 16 years! That does NOT sound like a democracy.
TeamProg
May 8
#10
Those are numbers provided by the Hamas government. Genocide is targeted. Prove the genocide please
AZLD4Candidate
May 8
#22
What is it when the ultra RW Israelis use it and have used it for 100 years or so?
Celerity
May 8
#29
Of course it is the same, as we are talking about 2 groups who want to remove (and that will definitely involve killing
Celerity
May 9
#46
Won't say anything until I get numbers not provided by the Hamas run Gaza government
AZLD4Candidate
May 9
#51
Because there are no exact numbers. . .but if you trust Hamas to tell you accurate numbers, you do you.
AZLD4Candidate
May 9
#72
It's NOT genocide. More innocents than that dead in Ukraine. And Hamas' numbers include their own fighters...
AnrothElf
May 9
#43
Israel wants to be left alone. The only time they attacked was in 1967 because they knew they would be and
AZLD4Candidate
May 9
#62
Didn't your good friend who worked on the campaign know Fetterman's stance in 2022?
lapucelle
May 9
#74
Its about time. no matter what we do or don't do in this will be wrong. This whole thing is a trap.
Srkdqltr
May 8
#28
Getting rid of their weapons smuggling tunnels is the key. (Heck Hamas is likely eating smuggled steak )
LeftInTX
May 9
#65