{"id":521958,"date":"2021-05-18T14:06:16","date_gmt":"2021-05-18T18:06:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=521958"},"modified":"2021-05-18T14:06:17","modified_gmt":"2021-05-18T18:06:17","slug":"sen-mcconnell-says-u-s-needs-to-stand-by-israel-criticizes-democrat-calls-for-a-ceasefire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/sen-mcconnell-says-u-s-needs-to-stand-by-israel-criticizes-democrat-calls-for-a-ceasefire\/","title":{"rendered":"Sen. McConnell says U.S. needs to stand by Israel, criticizes Democrat calls for a ceasefire"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fsen-mcconnell-says-u-s-needs-to-stand-by-israel-criticizes-democrat-calls-for-a-ceasefire%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=521958&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div id=\"attachment_2409043\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-2409043\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., speaks at a Senate Rules Committee markup to argue against the \u201cFor the People Act,\u201d which would expand access to voting and other voting reforms, at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, May 11, 2021. (AP Photo\/J. Scott Applewhite)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h5>OAN Newsroom<br \/>UPDATED 11:01 AM PT \u2013 Tuesday, May 18, 2021<\/h5>\n<p>Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) is pushing back again his Democrat colleagues who are calling for a ceasefire between Israel and the terrorist organization Hamas. While speaking from the Senate floor on Monday, he said he was proud to stand with the U.S. ally while stating Israel deserves an opportunity to \u201crestore deterrence.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve been proud to stand with Israel for years and I\u2019m proud to stand with Israel today,\u201d he stated. \u201cThe United States needs to stand foursquare behind our ally. Israel deserves an opportunity to restore deterrence and to impose costs on terrorists the international community has been unwilling or unable to impose.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>McConnell then accused senators from the left of pushing a false narrative that supports the terrorist aggressors. The Republican further said calling for both sides to de-escalate would downplay the responsibility the terrorists have for initially causing the conflict.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s a saying that\u2019s been around quite a while,\u201d he noted. \u201cIf Hamas laid down its weapons tomorrow, there would be no more fighting. If Israel laid their weapons, there would be no more Israel.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I&#8217;m a proud, steadfast supporter of Israel. The U.S. should stand closely with our friends.<\/p>\n<p>President Biden must remain strong against the voices within his own party that want to create false equivalence between terrorists attacking Israel and the nation defending itself.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Leader McConnell (@LeaderMcConnell) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LeaderMcConnell\/status\/1394394681547575297?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 17, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>McConnell then pointed how the Islamic militant group uses violent tactics for political gain.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHamas has sought to hijack recent tensions to advance its own narrow, violent objectives,\u201d said the Kentucky lawmaker. \u201cIn that sense, it\u2019s a conflict between Israel and a terrorist rump state in Gaza that uses its civilian population as human shields and exploits their suffering for political gain.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, at least two dozen Democrat senators have called for an immediate ceasefire agreement while Republicans are continuing to support Israel\u2019s right to defend itself.<\/p>\n<h4>MORE NEWS:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/ron-kessler-biden-carter-administrations-very-similar\/\">Ron Kessler: Biden, Carter Administrations Very Similar<\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., speaks at a Senate Rules Committee markup to argue against the \u201cFor the People Act,\u201d which would expand access to voting and other voting &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2278441,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-521958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=521958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521958\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2278441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=521958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=521958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=521958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}