Posted on 05/12/2024 6:24:45 AM PDT by SJackson
Senate Foreign Relations Committee chairman Sen. Ben Cardin, D-Md., said Friday that military aid to Israel should continue in a departure from the White House position.
In a statement, Cardin said he disagreed with President Biden, who has threatened to withhold offensive aid from Israel if it proceeds with a ground invasion of the southern Gaza city of Rafah, where millions of Palestinians have sought refuge from the war.
"While the most recent report regarding Israel under the NSM-20 has raised concerns, I agree with its assessment that Israel has not violated International Humanitarian Law and that military assistance to support Israel’s security remains in the U.S. interest and should continue," Cardin said.
"In this regard, I differ with President Biden's recent decision," he said.
Cardin's statement came in response to a State Department report released Friday, which raised "serious concerns" based on credible U.N. and non-governmental sources about alleged human rights violations by Israeli forces. The report documented credible allegations of human rights abuses by Israeli security forces, "including arbitrary or unlawful killings, enforced disappearance, torture, and serious abuses in conflict."
The State Department report also said an estimated 34,700 Palestinians have been killed in the conflict with Israel since the Oct. 7 Hamas terror attack, citing figures from the Gaza Ministry of Health. The report deemed the estimate "credible" but noted that the Hamas-controlled ministry does not distinguish between Hamas fighters and civilians in casualty counts.
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Finally Cardin does something in his career.
Is he facing reelection? Funny how Dems come out of the woodwork for the little guy ONLY at election time. Just like cockroaches!!
FJB and ALL Democrats!!
Fortunately, we killed no civilians in Hiroshima.
HAMAS claimed to have 40,000 fighters. Looks like the Israelis are coming up short on their HAMAS extermination project. They will need to step up their efforts.
Of course, all of these statistics are lies concocted as propaganda for the Palestinians. Nobody really knows what the real numbers might be. But it is obvious the real numbers are not high enough. The war is still going.
If someone ever tries to kill you, try to kill them right back.
(Captain Malcolm Reynolds, FireFly, 2002)
Rats and Rinos turn just a little conservative a few months before the election.
A common smokescreen in even years.
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