A cease-fire was agreed to last week between Israel and Hamas, putting to an end a war that brutalized the Gaza Strip. Alaska Sen. Dan Sullivan echoed the statements many Senate Republicans have said in the past week, saying that the United States will stand with Israel in the fight against terror.
Sullivan said, “The American people stand with Israel. That’s clear. But something else is clear in the context is very important here, Israel withdrew from Gaza. In return, they’re having over 3,000 missiles raining down on their civilians. Think about that precedent. They withdraw from Gaza, in return, 3,000 missies reigning down on their civilians. That can’t be a precedent that anyone supports. Something else that’s clear, Hamas is a terrorist organization. That’s a fact. Hamas, when it does get money, doesn’t spend it on the people, they spend it on weapons, tunnels, and the ability to fight the Israelis. That is a fact.”
Sullivan calls out the Biden Administration for listening to the far left in driving policy, “Missile defense. Right now, what you’ve seen, and it’s one of the fortunate things that’s happening, is civilian lives are being saved because of years of cooperation between the United States and Israel on missile defense. Funding, testing, this has made huge advancements. Just recently, some of the Senate Democrats are now saying ‘we’ve got to get rid of American missile defense, it’s too expensive.’ Of course, that’s not going to only just harm us, that will harm Israel. All of these far left policies need to be reversed. We’re standing here with Israel today and so do the American people.”
The Associated Press reports that U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken is heading to the Middle East to press the Israelis, Palestinians and other regional members to build on last week’s Gaza cease-fire by laying the groundwork for an eventual resumption in peace talks with the goal to shore up the cease-fire.