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Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., connected Sunday slammed the anti-Israel protests that person taken implicit assemblage campuses nationwide arsenic moving against bid successful the Middle East, adding that he’s frustrated that those taken hostage by Hamas during the Oct. 7 onslaught connected Israel person not been enactment first.
Fetterman, who has been outspoken against the protesters, wondered wherefore they are demonstrating against Israel and not Hamas, which helium says has refused a caller cease-fire woody during his quality connected CBS's "Face the Nation."
"These kinds of protests haven’t been helpful, and ironically, they are really moving against bid successful the Middle East arsenic well," Fetterman said. "And it’s besides precise unusual to maine that they’re not really protesting for a cease-fire now. There’s been a precise valid cease-fire that’s been connected the array present and Hamas has refused to instrumentality that on."
"And I don’t cognize wherefore if we’re going to protest, wherefore aren’t we protesting that, demanding Hamas to instrumentality that benignant of a cease-fire," the legislator continued. "And that would extremity each of the trauma and chaos going connected determination successful Gaza."
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Fetterman said anti-Israel protests connected assemblage campuses are not helping execute bid successful the Middle East. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images/File)
Fetterman went connected to accidental that helium does not enactment immoderate benignant of conditions being placed on Israel, and alternatively helium enactment work for the existent concern wholly connected Hamas.
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"The concern could extremity close present if Hamas conscionable surrendered and they conscionable sent each of those hostages location again," the legislator said. "That’s besides a happening that I’ve been frustrated, too, is that those hostages should truly beryllium successful beforehand of the conversations astir the concern successful Gaza. Sending them location would really, again, extremity each of this immediately."
The warfare successful Gaza began aft the Oct. 7 Hamas attack connected Israel successful which the violent enactment killed 1,200 radical and took astir 250 radical hostage.
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