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Rep. Josh Gottheimer (D-N.J.) led the effort, which included 63 Democrats and 53 Republicans.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu praised Joe Biden for being the first U.S. president to visit Israel during a war.
The left-leaning organization has condemned Hamas and its supporters extensively, and has been critical of some of Israel’s military decisions.
It would kill the recent plans to unfreeze $6 billion as part of a prisoner swap.
“Everyone wants to do something,” says the head of a Jewish day school in San Diego, which has partnered with an Israeli school near the border with Gaza that was attacked.
A group founded by former Vice President Mike Pence organized a letter from more than 60 activists, politicians and thought leaders.
“My administration will continue to fight antisemitism and Islamophobia,” said U.S. President Joe Biden.
“American strength and American resolve, and our candidates’ vision for America’s role in the world, are more important than ever,” said the RJC’s Norm Coleman.
“This horrific act of hate has no place in America and stands against our fundamental values,” stated U.S. President Joe Biden.
Hatred of Israel is a “demon that must be exorcized from our body politic,” wrote the Democratic congressman from New York.
Egypt’s president said the massacre of 1,400 Israelis was the result of “accumulated fury and hatred.”
This is being done “to deter any state or non-state actor seeking to escalate this war,” U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin said.
