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tv   U.S. Senate Sen. Cornyn on Aid to Israel  CSPAN  May 15, 2024 1:39am-1:46am EDT

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it threatens what your mom and all of our adversaries hold dear. with hesitation today the united states is effectively allowed itself to be deterred into the world is taking note. the credibility is not divisible. our failure to meet one
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challenge compounds. >> mr. president, it's been more than seven months. since israel was attacked by an iranian proxy known as hamas from gaza. hamas terrorists attacked innocent. people were raped, murdered and taken hostage and nearly 130 remain hostage in gaza including at least four american citizens.
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in this conflict the line between good and evil couldn't be more clear. on one side is america's ally and of the loan democracy in the middle east. on the other is a terrorist organization whose greatest goal is to simply destroy. i can only recall back to some of the horrific videos we've seen of what they've done to babies and innocent civilians, men, women and children. notwithstanding some of his rather unequivocal rhetoric, he seems confused by who we should be supporting in this conflict. as the war goes on the president
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has slowly backed away from israel. first with words and now through action. it's been voted for him he brought a bipartisan basis of the congress in which he had actually asked for. he effectively issued an ultimatum to our allies to fight these terrorists. it shouldn't be dictated by anyone but their national security interests and for some reason president biden has focused on prime minister netanyahu as if he was the sole decision-maker in israel. when in fact, there is the unity walkout is making those decisions, not prime minister
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netanyahu alone. i can only think back to the horrible days after 9/11, 2001, the day that 3,000 americans died as a result of the terrorist attack in new york and washington, d.c. instead they stood in solidarity. deserving the same support we got 23 years ago now. but the biden administration seems confused and of two minds scenting a terrible message to our closest eastern ally. but this is not the first time we have seen the biden administration's growing rift with israel. last week when hamas and instead accepted the terms of the
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cease-fire agreement offered by qatar in egypt the announcement to set off a media frenzy but quickly became clear there was one problem. israel had yet to see much less accept the term of the proposal. prime minister netanyahu described the terms as far from israel's necessary requirements. it's no surprise the leaders went rogue. presumably to the exclusion of
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israel. according to a post the biden administration knew about the deal and before the zippers announcement and hamas. they drafted the new deal and were not transparent about it. negotiations of this magnitude are understandably extremely delicate but there's no reason the biden administration should have kept the israeli government in the dark. israel is a valued ally but they continue to treatnt it as an untrustworthy antagonist. officials developed a habit from manipulating, denigrating and

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