Rep. Thomas Massie’s (R-KY) amendment to defund aid and defense sales to Israel failed miserably.
Most of the Democrats railed against Israel to defend their vote against Israel.
Rep. Adam Smith (D-WA), the top Democrat on the Armed Services Committee, voted to defund aid and defense sales to Israel. He also explained his vote, but he dropped an interesting nugget buried within his criticism of Israel:
To date, my family and I have had our home vandalized, a fire has been set in my driveway, my neighbors’ lives have been disrupted by demonstrations in the middle of the night, town halls meant to be forums for dialogue have been shut down, and a staff member has been physically assaulted. Those who engage in this type of behavior model a dangerous form of corrosive politics that seeks to intimidate those who disagree with them. We must be able to have civil discourse if we want to solve difficult problems, and I remain committed to open, respectful engagement.
Caving to these people is the worst thing a person can do, and yet, Smith did just that again with his explanation.
Again, Smith buried the intimidation and violence against his family. Instead, Smith used his time to focus on Israel’s faults as if to prove to those leftists that he shares their sentiments.
Smith misses the point. Those leftists who attacked his family and staff do not hate Israel only because of the ongoing war. Those leftists just hate Israel. They do not want Israel to exist. They hate Jews.
Unless you feel the same as them, they will hate you, too.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio literally touched on this subject on Thursday:
These are numbers that would shock most Americans today because we’ve been taught to believe that this kind of political violence, it simply doesn’t exist or it’s being exaggerated. But it does exist, and we’re actually underestimating it, and our nations bear the scars to prove it.And today, we face a new wave of this old evil. Here in the United States, the share of left-wing terrorist attacks and plots has risen to levels not seen in decades. In Germany, far-left violence has jumped by more than 40 percent in just the last year alone. In Greece, more than 80 percent of radical violence is now driven by far-left and anarchist actors. These are not abstract statistics.Americans have seen what those numbers mean – an all-out assault on our immigration officers, sniper attacks, explosives, armed ambushes. A transgender shooter opening fire on Catholic elementary school students as they pray, his gun marked with slogans like, “Where is your God now?” A health care executive executed in cold blood in the streets. Multiple assassination attempts on a sitting president. And the murder of the greatest conservative activist of a generation, a man who happened also to be a husband and the father of two young children, shot and killed while speaking to a crowd of students.
Look at President Donald Trump. Three assassination attempts, and yet he does not stop.
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