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Source: https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-808107
Sen. Fetterman: Those Boycotting Netanyahu's Speech to Congress Are Cheering Hamas On
(Jerusalem Post) Tovah Lazaroff - Visiting U.S. Senator John Fetterman (D-PA) on Thursday dismissed as absurd the charges of genocide leveled against Israel for its war in Gaza, noting that if this were the case, the IDF would not have allowed over a million people to flee Rafah ahead of its military campaign there. "What kind of a nation that is committed to genocide would allow" its supposed victims to leave the battlefield scene so they would not be hurt. Fetterman said he also supported Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as the democratically elected leader of the State of Israel. "We just voted billions" in military aid for Israel, so "let's hear" from the country's leader, adding that Congress had a responsibility to do so. While some members of the House and Senate plan to boycott the event, "I don't understand how that does anything but to cheer Hamas on." It was appalling, he said, that European countries such as Ireland, Spain, and Norway unilaterally recognized Palestine as a state in the middle of the Gaza war. "Why would you give Hamas that kind of a reward when you have Israeli citizens still being held hostage?...What's wrong with you?...If anyone thinks that Israel is part of a problem in the Middle East, you know, you're getting it way, way wrong."