after he praised Israel's Lebanon pager operation.
Nice to see US foreign aid coming back to America.
Posted on 03/20/2025 2:01:38 AM PDT by Libloather
Sen. John Fetterman, D-Penn., was gifted a silver-plated beeper during a visit with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu after the lawmaker praised Israel's covert operation in which it detonated pagers last year worn by Hezbollah terrorists in Lebanon.
Fetterman repeatedly has voiced support for Israel while breaking with the Democratic Party, which has been critical of Israel's military operations in Gaza, and has demanded that Hamas return all the hostages the terror group took on Oct. 7, 2023.
He was visiting Netanyahu's office in Jerusalem this week when he reiterated his support for the Jewish state.
"Hamas does not want peace. I unapologetically, 100% stand with Israel, and demand the release of all remaining hostages," he wrote Tuesday on X. "Sending this from Israel."
During an exchange of gifts, Fetterman gave Netanyahu a framed news article about an effort to memorialize Netanyahu’s brother, the fallen Israeli soldier Yoni Netanyahu, in Philadelphia, where Netanyahu lived as a teenager, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency reported.
The fallen prime minister's brother is considered a hero in Israel after he was killed in the 1976 Israeli raid in Entebbe, Uganda during the rescue of 102 hostages taken by German and Palestinian terrorists in a plane hijacking.
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Beware of Israelis bearing gifts........
Beware of Democrats bearing USAID money....hehehehehehe
Oh....dey got shut down...woohoo!!
LOL...after reading the title, I thought this was the BabylonBee article.
We need a new FR posting feature-——”Suck-Up Of The Week.”
“after reading the title, I thought this was the BabylonBee article.”
Same here LOL!
If MOSSAD calls, don't answer.
Nice to see US foreign aid coming back to America.
I am amazed that no one in the USA exploded
Source: foreign aid dispenser “USAid” in a pickle
as Trump moves to put agency under State Dept / 2/2/2025
“Peace” in the Middle East has been a pipe dream for about a thousand years........there’s a
huge price tag on “peace,” with the US taxpayer gamely trying to meet the latest “peace price.”
Netanyahu to Trump: “Can you top this?”
<><>During the 2024 election year, Biden blanketed Israel w/ $17.9 billion extra peace-keeping tax dollars in one year alone, saying, “Nobody has done more for Israeli peace than I have.”
<><>Since 1973, Israel has received more than $120 billion US tax dollars in
peace-filled MILITARY assistance alone, including “three special aid” peace packages.
<><>billions for signing the Israel-Egypt peace treaty
<><>billions for Israel’s peaceful withdrawal from the Sinai.
<><>billions for peaceful redeployment of Israeli forces
<><>$5 billion tax dollars rebuilding Israeli air bases in the Negev.
Besides peace-making weaponry, Israel also receives peace-keeping economic and humanitarian foreign aid, which supports broad peaceful economic development and socio-political stability and can include peaceable non-military support related to the country’s pressing peace needs.
At least we know Netanyahu has one friend.
pic-—Among the banners held by protesters were many calling on the government to end the war (JOHN WESSELS)
Blowing foghorns and beating drums, thousands of Israelis on Wednesday took over the winding Jerusalem street outside the prime minister’s residence to protest what they see as Benjamin Netanyahu’s bid to weaken democracy. “We’ve all been taken hostage by the Netanyahu’s government of blood,” some chanted.
Others called for the long-serving Netanyahu to stand down, yelling: “You’re the head, you’re to blame for this catastrophe” — a reference to the failure to prevent Hamas’s October 7, 2023 attack on southern Israel, which led to full-blown war in Gaza.
On Tuesday, Israel launched a series of deadly air strikes on the Palestinian territory after a nearly two-month ceasefire that largely halted violence and saw the handover of 33 Israeli hostages seized during the Hamas attack.
Among the banners held by protesters in Jerusalem were many calling on the government to end the war and return the hostages, with some reading: “We are all hostages.”
Some relatives of the hostages still being held in Gaza also joined the protest, after expressing anger that the decision to resume strikes could “sacrifice” their loved ones. Of the 251 hostages seized during the Hamas attack, 58 are still held in Gaza, including 34 the Israeli military says are dead.
Some of those demonstrating also accused Netanyahu of using the war against Hamas to distract from his personal troubles on trial for alleged bribery. Some of those demonstrating also accused Netanyahu of using the war against Hamas to distract from his personal troubles.
“We want Netanyahu to know that the most important issue is to get the hostages back,” Nehama Krysler, 67, told AFP, explaining why she was protesting outside Netanyahu’s home.
Arriving from across the country, protesters marched by foot the final ascent into Jerusalem early in the morning, first rallying outside the parliament, and then sitting down defiantly on the black asphalt as close as they could get to Netanyahu’s residence. A tense police force manned makeshift barricades around the protest, which grew throughout the day. By the afternoon police said that four protesters were arrested for “attempting to break through the protest area fences”.
Wednesday’s demonstration was organised by a broad conglomeration of anti-Netanyahu groups, who called to protest the premier’s move to oust Ronen Bar, the head of the Shin Bet internal security agency.
pic-—A tense police force manned makeshift barricades around the protest, which grew throughout the day Photo: Menahem Kahana
Similar protests were widespread throughout the year leading up to October 2023. At that time, the government had been attempting to reform the country’s judicial branch, a move that was halted when the war broke out.
"3... 2... 1... just kidding. This time."
Has anyone tried calling it?
We're slipping.... :-)
We’re slipping.... :-)
It’s just too much winning! Stop it now! /s
most all aid to Israel has to be spent here.
he gave a similar gift to 47 - but in gold.
.........in theory only......
pls enumerate with sources
I do not trust Fetterman, but he has been consistent in his support of Israel and his dislike of Hamas. Credit where do.
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