Netanyahu Meets With U.S. Senators In Israel

On Monday, the one-year anniversary of the horrific Hamas October 7 massacre of more than 1200 Israelis, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met with a bipartisan delegation of U.S. Senators in his office in Jerusalem.

“I deeply appreciate the visit by Senators Graham and Blumenthal on this day of commemoration, October 7,” Netanyahu stated, as reported by Israel National News. “It was the worst attack on the Jewish people since the Holocaust, but unlike the Holocaust, we fight back. We’re fighting like lions with the support of the American government and the American people, and its representatives here. I want to thank you both for your stellar support for Israel throughout the war.”

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), who led the delegation, said, “The reason people were killed on October 7 was they were Jewish. We’ve seen this movie before. We don’t want to see any more of those movies. Living in their own homeland.”

“You said something that really struck me,” Graham continued, then referred to the roughly 80,000 Israelis forced to evacuate their homes in the north to the thousands of rockets Hezbollah has fired at Israel over the past year. “No one should be a refugee in their own country. They’re going back to the north, folks. They’re going back to these kibbutzes. Whatever it takes to get your people back in their homes, you do it.”

Graham then turned to France, whose president, Emanuel Macron, had publicly called for an arms embargo against Israel.  “To my friends in France, you’ve got this ass backwards,” Graham declared. “You should be doubling down on helping Israel, because the people that want to destroy Israel also want to destroy the French people. I get that. He gets that. You’re fighting our fight. We’re going to help you with your military needs.”

“As Israel fights the forces of barbarism led by Iran, all civilized countries should be standing firmly by Israel’s side, yet President Macron and some other Western leaders are now calling for arms embargoes against Israel. Shame on them,” Netanyahu fired back. “Is Iran imposing an arms embargo on Hezbollah, on the Houthis, on Hamas, and on its other proxies? Of course not. This axis of terror stands together, but countries who supposedly oppose this terror axis call for an arms embargo on Israel.”

My message to Macron >> pic.twitter.com/BHyh0Fso19

— Benjamin Netanyahu – בנימין נתניהו (@netanyahu) October 5, 2024

“The Twin Towers fell not because of a hurricane, [but] because radical Islamist terrorists killed 3,000 of us on a single day,” Graham recalled. “And they would kill all of us if they could. If Iran ever got a nuclear weapon, they would use it. The question would be who would they use it against first. Me? You? Saudi Arabia? We can never let that happen. So we’re going to help you.”