{"id":546079,"date":"2021-05-30T14:06:10","date_gmt":"2021-05-30T18:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=546079"},"modified":"2021-05-30T14:06:12","modified_gmt":"2021-05-30T18:06:12","slug":"cruz-and-hagerty-land-in-israel-to-assess-damage-from-hamas-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cruz-and-hagerty-land-in-israel-to-assess-damage-from-hamas-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Cruz and Hagerty Land in Israel to Assess Damage from Hamas War"},"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\">24<\/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%2Fcruz-and-hagerty-land-in-israel-to-assess-damage-from-hamas-war%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=546079&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 readability=\"29.466275659824\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"article-category\"><a class href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/national-security\/\">National Security<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">Lawmakers will tell Israeli leaders the GOP stands should-to-shoulder with the country<\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-thumbnail-container relative lg:mr-24 w-full my-4 mb-8\">\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"736\" height=\"462\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/GettyImages-1232970997-1.jpg\" class=\"w-full lazyload blur-up wp-post-image\" alt=\"A streak of light appears as Israel&#039;s Iron Dome anti-missile system intercepts rockets launched from the Gaza Strip\" srcset=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 736px) 100vw, 736px\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/GettyImages-1232970997.jpg 736w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/GettyImages-1232970997-300x188.jpg 300w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" \/><figcaption class=\"absolute text-white p-4 w-full text-right text-xs bottom-0 bg-black opacity-75\">\n\t\t\t\tA streak of light appears as Israel&#8217;s Iron Dome anti-missile system intercepts rockets launched from the Gaza Strip \/ Getty Images\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\t\t\t<span class=\"text-gray text-xs md:text-lg\"><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/adam-kredo\/\" title=\"Posts by Adam Kredo\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">Adam Kredo<\/a> \u2022 May 30, 2021 1:55 pm<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div readability=\"95.820448877805\">\n<p>Senators Ted Cruz (R., Texas) and Bill Hagerty (R., Tenn.) landed in Israel on Sunday to assess the damage from the country\u2019s most recent war with Hamas and meet with the Jewish state\u2019s leaders.<\/p>\n<p>The lawmakers\u2014both members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee\u2014will tour Israel\u2019s southern cities, which were heavily targeted by Hamas, and sit down with Israeli leaders to reaffirm the Republican Party\u2019s unwavering support for the security alliance with America.<\/p>\n<p>The trip comes as Democrats in Congress are increasingly divided over U.S. support for Israel. Lawmakers on the Party\u2019s left flank have repeatedly called for the Biden administration to freeze security aid to Israel and consider sanctioning the country for carrying out defensive strikes on Hamas positions in the Gaza Strip. Reps. Ilhan Omar (D., Minn.), Rashida Tlaib (D., Mich.), and other members of the so-called Squad are attempting to push their colleagues into adopting their anti-Israel positions, a strategy that appears to be gaining ground as an increasing number of Democrats champion a wholesale reassessment of the historically bipartisan U.S.-Israel security alliance.<\/p>\n<p>The Democratic Party\u2019s divisions on Israel were on full display in the House earlier this month when virtually every Democrat voted to table two bills that would sanction Hamas and boost funding to Israel\u2019s Iron Dome missile defense system, which played a central role in intercepting Hamas missiles before they struck civilian areas.<\/p>\n<p>Cruz, in a statement to the <em>Washington Free Beacon<\/em> before he departed for Israel, said he organized the trip &#8220;to hear and see firsthand what our Israeli allies need to defend themselves, and to show the international community that we stand unequivocally with Israel.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Cruz criticized Democrats for backing away from the U.S.-Israel alliance.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Far too many Democrats morally equivocated between Israel and the terrorists attacking them, and fringe progressive Democrats went even further with wild accusations and conspiracy theories,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Cruz petitioned the Biden administration just before the trip to immediately replenish Israel\u2019s supply of Iron Dome missiles, which he said &#8220;saved thousands of lives.&#8221; Democrats oppose the effort. The senator also said the trip is an important opportunity to study the most recent conflict in person.<\/p>\n<p>Hagerty, in comments to the <em>Free Beacon<\/em>, said the trip will allow him to &#8220;see firsthand what more the U.S. can do to strengthen our vital alliance with Israel at a time when terrorists like Hamas and Hezbollah and terror-sponsoring regimes in Iran and Syria are making the Middle East more dangerous.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Hagerty plans to talk with Israeli political leaders about steps the United States can take to promote and strengthen the Abraham Accords, the historic set of peace agreements brokered by the Trump administration between Israel, Bahrain, and the United Arab Emirates.<\/p>\n<p>Hagerty is the author of recently filed legislation that would authorize the emergency resupply of Israel\u2019s Iron Dome system. He also is spearheading an effort to stop the Biden administration from granting Iran sanctions relief without congressional approval.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>National Security Lawmakers will tell Israeli leaders the GOP stands should-to-shoulder with the country  A streak of light appears as Israel&#8217;s Iron Dome anti-missile system intercepts &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2313540,"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\/GettyImages-1232970997-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Cruz and Hagerty Land in Israel to Assess Damage from Hamas War","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-546079","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\/GettyImages-1232970997-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Cruz and Hagerty Land in Israel to Assess Damage from Hamas War","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546079","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=546079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546079\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2313540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=546079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=546079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=546079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}