{"id":529448,"date":"2021-05-20T12:06:26","date_gmt":"2021-05-20T16:06:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=529448"},"modified":"2021-05-20T12:06:28","modified_gmt":"2021-05-20T16:06:28","slug":"top-house-democrat-blasts-party-extremists-for-undermining-israel-working-to-embolden-hamas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/top-house-democrat-blasts-party-extremists-for-undermining-israel-working-to-embolden-hamas\/","title":{"rendered":"Top House Democrat Blasts Party \u2018Extremists\u2019 For Undermining Israel, Working To \u2018Embolden Hamas\u2019"},"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\">26<\/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%2Ftop-house-democrat-blasts-party-extremists-for-undermining-israel-working-to-embolden-hamas%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=529448&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><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Steny-Hoyer-Alexandria-Ocasio-Cortez.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-MD) slammed members of his party Tuesday for pushing a \u201cfalse narrative\u201d about Israel and pushing policies that would empower terrorists.<\/p>\n<p>Hoyer said that \u201cextremists\u201d in the Democratic Party are undermining the United States\u2019 relationship with its ally Israel. The House majority leader also condemned Hamas, a Palestinian terror group in the Gaza Strip, for using civilians in Gaza as human shields against Israeli counterstrikes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI continue to be saddened by the loss of innocent civilian life in Israel and Gaza occurring as a result of Hamas\u2019s ongoing rocket attacks. Israel has the right to defend itself, as any nation does when its civilians are targeted by violence from a terrorist organization whose aim is nothing short of mass murder and the destruction of the world\u2019s only Jewish state,\u201d Hoyer said in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.majorityleader.gov\/content\/hoyer-statement-situation-israel-and-gaza\">statement<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDemocrats have, for decades, been defenders of Israel because the Jewish state\u2019s rebirth was an inspiring act of progressive justice,\u201d he continued. \u201cWe must not allow extremists to hijack important discussions about securing a better future for Israelis and Palestinians by promoting a false narrative that denies the historical and unbroken connection of the Jewish people to their ancestral homeland.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hoyer called for a \u201cdurable\u201d ceasefire, adding that Hamas must be held responsible for the deaths of civilians it put at risk by bombing Israel and by hiding its weapons and bases inside civilian areas.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo one should have to live under the threat of attack, and Hamas must be held accountable for its war crimes, which include the use of civilian infrastructure for launching its attacks against civilian targets,\u201d Hoyer said. \u201cHamas bears responsibility for civilian casualties on both sides of the border as a result.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The House leader resisted calls within his party to condition military financial aid to Israel led by progressive lawmakers such as Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY). Hoyer said such conditions \u201cwould only embolden Hamas.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, Ocasio-Cortez <a href=\"https:\/\/ocasio-cortez.house.gov\/media\/press-releases\/ocasio-cortez-pocan-tlaib-lead-joint-resolution-block-weapon-sales-netanyahu\">partnered<\/a> with fellow progressives such as Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) in an attempt to block the U.S. from selling weapons to Israel. The progressive lawmakers said that U.S. arms and aid should be used as leverage to force Israel to \u201crespect basic Palestinian rights.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In statements opposing the sale of U.S. weapons to Israel, Ocasio-Cortez and Omar accused Israel of committing \u201cwar crimes\u201d in Gaza by killing Palestinian civilians.<\/p>\n<p>Israeli has launched numerous strikes against pseudo-civilian targets such as hospitals and schools in Gaza because Hamas militants have set up military installations in those places and used civilians as human shields. Israel has taken a number of steps to limit civilian casualties in these strikes, such as using \u201cknock bombs\u201d to warn people of an imminent airstrike, dropping pamphlets, or calling Palestinians and telling them to evacuate.<\/p>\n<p>The United States has provided regular military aid to Israel for decades since at least 1973, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/jinsa.org\/jinsa_report\/dangerous-conditions-the-case-against-threatening-israels-qualitative-military-edge\/\">Jewish Institute for National Security of America<\/a>. Under former President Bill Clinton, the United States and Israel signed the first of three memoranda of understanding which said that the U.S. would provide military financial aid to Israel and in return, Israel would spend most of those funds on weapons and technology from the United States, supporting U.S. jobs. In the latest agreement signed under former President Barack Obama in 2016, Israel agreed to spend all of the U.S. aid on U.S. products.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/shock-video-idf-warns-gazan-man-to-evacuate-children-before-bombing-he-responds-if-the-children-need-to-die-then-theyll-die\">Shock Video: IDF Warns Gazan Man To Evacuate Children Before Bombing. He Responds: \u2018If The Children Need To Die Then They\u2019ll Die\u2019<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-MD) slammed members of his party Tuesday for pushing a \u201cfalse narrative\u201d about Israel and pushing policies that would empower terrorists.Hoyer said that \u201cextremists\u201d in &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2312468,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Steny-Hoyer-Alexandria-Ocasio-Cortez.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Top House Democrat Blasts Party \u2018Extremists\u2019 For Undermining Israel, Working To \u2018Embolden Hamas\u2019","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-529448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Steny-Hoyer-Alexandria-Ocasio-Cortez.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Top House Democrat Blasts Party \u2018Extremists\u2019 For Undermining Israel, Working To \u2018Embolden Hamas\u2019","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529448","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=529448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529448\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2312468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=529448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=529448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=529448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}