18 May 2021
Former Vice President Mike Pence released a video statement Tuesday, from Advancing American Freedom, his new policy and advocacy organization, blaming President Joe Biden and his administration for the Israel and Gaza conflict due to his lack of strength.
Pence started by reaffirming “Israel is America’s most cherished ally,” and he believes this wholeheartedly. During Pence’s time as the vice president under President Donald Trump, he was honored to visit Israel and meet with Prime Minister Netanyahu and see the western wall. Pence said under the Trump-Pence administration, the United States and Israel witnessed “four years of progress toward peace.” He said the “Trump-Pence administration‘s commitment to Israel was unrivaled,” and they “made that clear to the world through our actions.”
GOP seeks to divide Democrats over Israel-Gaza fighting
Ahead of midterm elections, Republican senators take aim at Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and other Democratic progressives, who laid blame for the violence solely on Israel, accusing them of acting as press secretaries for Hamas
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Published: 05.19.21 , 10:37
Republicans trying to drive a wedge between Democrats and chip away at U.S. President Joe Biden’s support are zeroing in on the violence in the Middle East, laying blame on his administration and aiming to make his liberal critics the face of the party heading into the midterm elections.
GOP Sens. Ted Cruz of Texas and Tom Cotton of Arkansas, both potential White House hopefuls in 2024, have focused in particular on Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York and other progressives, who laid the blame solely on Israel for the current round of cross border fighting between Israeli military and terror factions in Gaza.
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Pence argued that Biden and congressional Democrats enabled the recent Israeli conflict by abandoning unambiguous support for Israel, emboldening America’s enemies, and turning their backs on Trump’s legacy of peace in the Middle East.
“Under the Trump-Pence administration, we made it crystal clear to the world that America stands with Israel,” Pence explained. “We withdrew from the dangerous Iran nuclear deal brokered by the Obama-Biden administration, which put the world’s leading state sponsor of terror on the path to nuclear weapons while sending pallets of cash to the mullahs in Iran. We acknowledged Israel’s sovereignty over the Golan Heights and the Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria. And President Trump kept the promise made by countless Republican and Democrat politicians by actually following through in moving the American embassy to Jerusalem, the capital of the state of Israel.”
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Former Vice President Mike Pence (R). (Getty Images)
In a commentary for
National Review, former Vice President Mike Pence said there was relative calm in Israel for the last seven years, but this changed as a direct result of the weakness shown by the Biden administration from its first day in office. The answer for why there is tremendous violence today is that President Biden and congressional Democrats have abandoned unambiguous support for our ally Israel, emboldened our enemies, and turned their back on the policy that yielded historic peace deals in the Middle East, wrote Pence in his May 17 commentary.
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Former Vice President Mike Pence sharply criticized President Joe Biden in an op-ed, saying his weakness in supporting Israel has driven further violence in the Israel-Hamas conflict. Instead of seeking peace through strength, he has invited violence through weakness, Pence wrote in the
National Review published on Monday. Every tepid statement uttered by the Biden-Harris administration is built on a false equivalency between Israel and Hamas. There is no moral equivalency between Israel and the terrorist group Hamas, he added. President Biden and every American leader should uphold Israel’s right to self-defense and condemn the terrorists of Hamas as well as their supporters and apologists in the strongest possible terms.