Outpouring of extreme statements from Republican politicians threatens safety of Arab Americans, groups warn
Senator Lindsey Graham wants to see Gaza flattened. Congressman Max Miller said the laws of war should be to be swept aside. A former US ambassador to Israel, David Friedman,American politicians have rushed to plant their flags firmly with Israel after Hamas killed more than 1,400 people, and abducted about 200 others, in its unprecedented attack from the Gaza Strip.
“We must call out Hamas for the evil that it is. But those seeking to use this moment to demonize & dehumanize all Palestinians & Muslims are complicit in the deaths of innocents like the brutal hate killing of this six-year-old Palestinian-American boy, stabbed to death in Chicago,” heGraham described the conflict as a “religious war” and called on the Israelis to “level the place”.
Another Republican member of Congress, Michael McCaul, chair of the House foreign affairs committee, claimed to have seen film of kidnapped Israeli children being held in metal cages.the footage was circulating online before the attack and the false claim it was of Israeli children was made on TikTok byJoel Pollak, a senior editor at large at Breitbart News, told a conservative webcast that he was “frankly OK” with the ethnic cleansing of Gaza to force out the Palestinian population.
“Wars beget more war. The bigger the conflict, the uglier and longer-lasting the consequences,” said Carlson.Friedman, the former ambassador, lashed out at the congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez after she said that the US “has a responsibility to ensure accountability to human rights to prevent the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians”.
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