U.S. Sen. Katie Britt (R-Montgomery) blasted President Joe Biden for withholding military aid to Israel.
This week, Biden’s administration paused the shipment of 1,800 bombs to small Judeo-Middle Eastern country. The president announced the hold publicly during an interview with CNN’s Erin Burnett.
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Israel is expected to invade the Gazan city of Rafah within the next few days in an attempt to take out the final refuge of Hamas fighters and leadership.
Britt condemned the administration’s decision Thursday on WVNN’s “The Yaffee Program.”
“It is a betrayal,” Britt said. “We are betraying our greatest ally, the only democracy in the Middle East. The barbaric attacks on October 7th still are seared into my memory…Hamas has said, ‘we’re going to come back again and again and again and again until we eradicate the Jewish people until Israel exists no more.’ Israel is fighting for their very existence. I mean this is their very existence and we should stand shoulder to shoulder with them.
“What we’re seeing from Biden is despicable.”
The senator also blasted Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer for undermining Israel’s war in Gaza.
“What we saw from Chuck Schumer several weeks ago was beyond disappointing,” she said. “Marching down to the Senate floor, using his platform to say we need a regime change in Israel now. Not one in Iran, not one in Russia, not one in North Korea, not one in China. He used his platform to say we need a regime change in the only democracy in the Middle East. You’re cutting their legs out from under our greatest ally at a time where they are attempting to negotiate or return of hostages.”
Britt also believes the president’s weakness is putting the hostages in more danger.
“There are five Americans and the President of the United States should be using every tool in his toolbox to get them back,” she said. “And, unfortunately, we’re just seeing more weakness, which is what he has as a legacy from the Oval Office during his tenure there.”
She also reminded people just how terrible the Oct. 7 attacks were and why it’s so important for Israel to wipe out Hamas.
“These people are beyond evil,” she said. “They came in and murdered children in front of their parents, burned parents in front of their children, raped women, drug Holocaust survivors out of of their wheelchairs to their desk. I mean, it is despicable and sick.
“A leader in the Israeli government, when we were there about two weeks after October 7, said a lot of people have compared this to 911. And, and they said, ‘you know senator…it is similar to that in many ways, but the difference is when y’all woke up on September 12, you can look at your children and say the enemy is oceans away.’ He said, ‘we have to look at ours and say they are miles down the street and they have said they’re going to continue to come back and ravage our communities until we’re all gone.'”
Yaffee is a contributing writer to Yellowhammer News and hosts “The Yaffee Program” weekdays 9-11 a.m. on WVNN. You can follow him on Twitter @Yaffee
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