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Maryland’s progressive Democrat Senator Chris Van Hollen is one of the leading members of Congress demanding that President Biden take a much tougher stance against Israel over its conduct of the war in Gaza. Bowing to such pressure that is coming from congressional Democrats and from the pro-Palestinian progressive voters the president needs for his reelection, President Biden is buckling under.
President Biden warned Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during their April 4th phone call that future U.S. support for Israel in the Gaza war would depend upon Israel’s taking concrete, verifiable measures to protect civilians and humanitarian workers. And the Biden administration allowed a United Nations Security Council resolution to pass last month that demanded an immediate ceasefire in Gaza without any linkage to the immediate release of the hostages held by Hamas and other Palestinian terrorists.
But Senator Van Hollen, like his fellow Israel-bashers, is still not satisfied.
Senator Van Hollen wants to immediately cut off the U.S.’s resupply of any weapons that Israel has been using in Gaza to destroy Hamas and free the hostages, which he considers to be “offensive weapons.” During his April 7th broadcast interview on CBS, Senator Van Hollen identified the weapons he said the U.S. should not be sending to Israel as “any more airplanes, bombs, artillery, everything that’s being used right now in Gaza.”
Senator Van Hollen said that he is willing for the U.S. to continue providing Israel with purely defensive weapons for use in Israel itself such as the Iron Dome. But no more weapons that Israel’s military needs to finish destroying Hamas’ fighting capabilities at their source.
It is as if the Democrat senator from Delaware were trying to turn the clock back to October 6th. He wants Israel to respond reactively only after Hamas has already launched its lethal rockets and sent its fighters from Gaza to murder more innocent civilians in Israel. The unprovoked terrorist invasion and massacres in Israel on October 7th proved that such a wait-and-see approach will inevitably lead to a disastrous outcome. Nevertheless, Van Hollen has no problem putting Israel back again in that same vulnerable position against a revived Hamas, leaving unarmed civilians in Israel exposed to more October 7th-style genocidal attacks or worse.
Senator Van Hollen’s willingness to give Hamas the space and time to regroup and rebuild its fighting capabilities rather than help Israel finish off Hamas for good is no surprise. He blames Israel, not Hamas, for the humanitarian crisis in Gaza.
For example, Senator Van Hollen accused Israel of “textbook war crimes” in Gaza by, according to Van Hollen, “deliberately withholding food for children.” This is unmitigated blood libel against the Jewish State of Israel. Van Hollen is propagating the same lies uttered by the United Nations’ Israel-hating so-called “experts” and by biased, self-righteous “human rights” organizations.
Hamas not only started this war with its genocidal attack October 7th on Israel. Hamas is responsible for the suffering endured by Palestinian civilians in Gaza ever since that horrible day.
Bassem Eid, a Palestinian human rights activist, explained the Hamas-imposed humanitarian crisis this way in his article entitled “My Fellow Palestinians: Stop Blaming the Jews—Hamas Is Starving Our Brothers and Sisters in Gaza”:
“As a Palestinian human rights activist deeply sympathetic to the plight of the Palestinian people and the complexities of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, I can tell you beyond the shadow of a doubt that the terrorist group Hamas is responsible for the suffering of Gazans.”
“Hamas breached all precedent with an all-out invasion of Southern Israel, massacring over 1,200 innocents in a single day—including 300 young people at an all-night nature dance party celebrating peace… As a human rights activist and a human being, I recognize that it defies all rules of geopolitics, morality, and human nature to suggest that Israel not respond militarily to dismantle Hamas and rescue its people, who we now know are being raped and psychologically tortured in captivity. And yet, amidst the intensity of the ongoing war, Israel has facilitated the transfer of international aid to Hamas-controlled territory—while Hamas has been seizing these essential supplies and transferring them for military purposes.”
Mr. Eid condemned the “failures of an international policy that has foolishly coddled a brutal tyrant and implacable foe.” By leveling false charges of “war crimes” against Israel, Senator Van Hollen is doing the same thing as the UN “experts” and others in the so-called international community, who wear their bias against Israel on their sleeves, are doing. He is amplifying the pro-Hamas propaganda that blames the victim of aggression, Israel, for the sins of the terrorist aggressors against Israelis and Palestinian civilians alike.
More than seventy Maryland rabbis of all different Jewish denominations spoke with one voice against Senator Van Hollen’s inflammatory anti-Israel rhetoric. “Following the worst pogrom against Jews since the Holocaust,” they wrote in their letter to Van Hollen, “we here at home have faced the worst wave of antisemitism in our lifetimes. Yet to our dismay, rather than standing with us, your efforts in the Senate have only stoked deeper divisions and further isolated Israel and our Jewish community. While Israel fights against terror and threats of annihilation, we are aghast by your claims about war crimes and your portrayal of Israel as the aggressor.”
Any reasonable people who understand that Israel’s survival is at stake as a safe haven for Jews in a world rife with anti-Semitism should be appalled at Senator Van Hollen’s patently false accusations against the Jewish state. And they should also be appalled by his calls for immediately cutting off the delivery of weapons that Israel urgently needs to save itself from more genocidal terrorist attacks on its soil. Van Hollen is recklessly providing more fodder for Israel’s enemies to exploit against Israel itself and Jews everywhere.
Van Hollen and his ilk appease terrorists for the same of votes
Van Hollen is a rabid progressive in MARYLAND. He doesn’t have to worry about votes. He’ll be wheeled out of the Senate wearing huggies and a drool bucket.
It is obvious the LeftTwats support genocide of Jews. This merely one branch and another is the terrorist cartel in Washington headed by TaliBiden
Jew hating Herr Van Hollen should dress up in his Waffen SS uniform that he probably has in his closet when issuing his anti-Israel edicts. I wonder how the Maryland Fuhrer feels about gun ownership in this country.
What a complete dung heap of a person.
Van Hollen is from Maryland, unfortunately making him one of my Senators, not Delaware. Another boob, Biden, has that honor.
Senator-for-Life is more like it. His progressive screeds will guarantee it here in the California of the East.
Sadly, there are at least a couple of hundred thousand Jews in the Baltimore and DC areas in Maryland. Probably at least 70 to 80% voted for this antisemite because he had (D) after his name on the ballot. If he runs again, will their folly be repeated?
They’ve never let him down before so why start now? When has a Democrat ever voted in their self interest? At worst, some of those couple hundred thousand just won’t vote which will make no difference in this progressive shithole.
As much as I deplore “Senator” Van Hollen’s blatant anti-Semitism, I’m reminded of what Joseph told his brothers in Genesis 50:20, “you meant evil against me; but God meant it for good.”
God promised to gather Israel from all over the world and bring them back to the Promised Land. Allowing anti-Semitism like that spouted by Van Hollen may be His way of doing that.
We, the Politically Correct, think that the creation of the State of Israel was a mistake and the continued existence of the State of Israel is a problem. Those who want to destroy Israel and slaughter 7 million Jews are justified in their anger and hatred of Jews and Israel.
We, the Politically Correct, get to tell the Jews how many Jews have to die before they can defend themselves from those who are determined to slaughter all 7 million Jews in Israel before they slaughter all of the Jews in the world.
We, the Politically Correct, think the the slaughter, raping and kidnapping of Jews in Israel on October 7 was unfortunate but must be put in context and that it was an understandable reaction to the creation and the continued existence of the State of Israel.
We, the Politically Correct, also get to tell the Jews how to defend themselves against a suicidal, genocidal enemy that boasts that they love death and happily slaughters, rapes and kidnaps Jewish men, women and children, celebrates, and then hides in tunnels beneath schools, homes, hospitals and mosques.
Therefore, if the Jews have the nerve to actually defend themselves against those determined to destroy them, we get to tell the Jews that they must do so perfectly. There can be no Palestinian “civiilian” casualties. There can be no destruction of homes, hospitals or schools even if Palestinians use those buildings to store weapons and attack Jews.
If this means more Jews are going to die, that is OK because Israel should not really exist anyhow.
This is how we prove that we care about the Oppressed and that we are Politically Correct.
Well deserved criticism of Van Hollen. Please note that he is a senator for Maryland, not Delaware
I for one would be quite happy to see van Hollen treated the same way that Israel’s 1200 October 7 victims were. Chris, permit me to invite you over for a visit.
God’s position on Israel in Genesis 12:3 – “I will bless those who bless you and I will curse him who curses you.”
I can’t wait to see God’s curses rain down on Van Hollen’s head and on the heads of his fellow commie democrats.
If he’s married, it would be nice to see him witness his wife being gang thanked by the folk that he supports. They could thank her for hours on end, with the Senator watching like in Clockwork Orange. They could take turns thanking her, at least three at a time. Why? She deserves it.
Hey Senator!!! THANK YOU!!
Why Chris von Hollen’s irrational hatred of Israel? The bum’s early life was influenced by his parents living in Pakistan and Turkey. Chrissy was long ago brainwashed. He needs to be voted out, he’s acting as an enemy agent against the best interests of America and Israel.
When I moved to Maryland, from Kentucky, at the age of twelve I was introduced to blatant racism and antisemitism. Though either are as blatant as then they have not gone away. Van Hollen is the voice for all those now in the closet. His seat in the Senate is as secure as that one bar of gold left in Fort Knox.