Mike Pence accuses Biden of impeachment hypocrisy amid Israel arms threat

Shortly aft President Biden announced Wednesday that helium would withhold weapons from Jerusalem if Israel entered the confederate Gaza metropolis of Rafah, erstwhile Vice President Mike Pence accused him of hypocrisy, successful airy of however his erstwhile brag was impeached connected akin grounds.

On Wednesday, Biden lamented Gazan civilian casualties to CNN big Erin Burnett, telling her helium "made it wide if they spell into Rafah… I'm not supplying the weapons that person been utilized historically to woody with Rafah; to woody with the cities, to woody with that problem."

"We're going to proceed to make definite Israel is unafraid successful presumption of Iron Dome and their quality to respond to attacks that came retired of the Middle East recently. It's conscionable wrong."

On X, formerly Twitter, Pence tore into Biden, calling his comments "totally unacceptable."

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"I’m aged capable to retrieve erstwhile Democrats impeached different president for supposedly withholding overseas assistance that had been approved by Congress," helium said.

"Stop the threats, Joe. America Stands with Israel."

In comments to Fox News Digital, Pence said Biden abandoned Israel successful bid to "win implicit the Hamas apologist helping of his party."

"Israel is our state and the lone connection we should beryllium sending is that we volition basal beside them until they decorativeness the occupation successful Gaza and eradicate Hamas, erstwhile and for all," Pence said. 

"Congress passed the legislation, President Biden signed it, and it is his occupation to execute it. He can’t withhold assistance for governmental convenience."

The Indiana Republican said Democrats utilized the aforesaid nonstop statement to impeach then-President Donald Trump implicit his 2018 telephone telephone with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Trump reportedly asked Zelenskyy to look into the Hunter Biden-Burisma matter portion dangling $214 cardinal successful U.S. information assistance, which Democrats considered an enactment of soliciting overseas predetermination interference.

"Israel is our astir cherished ally," Pence went connected to say. "And they merit American enactment to decision Hamas – not to beryllium utilized arsenic a governmental pawn." 

On Thursday, Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., took his disapproval a measurement further by calling connected the House to initiate akin impeachment proceedings against the incumbent.

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Former Vice President Mike Pence is pictured.  (Fox News - Paul Steinhauser) )

"The House has nary prime but to impeach Biden based connected the Trump-Ukraine precedent of withholding overseas assistance to assistance with reelection," helium said.

"Only with Biden, it’s true."

In Trump's case, Democrats claimed it was "undisputed" that Trump asked Zelenskyy for a governmental favour successful instrumentality for information assistance.

In opening remarks by Rep. Jerry Nadler, D-N.Y., astatine a December 2019 impeachment enquiry hearing, helium alleged Trump's telephone with Zelenskyy was portion of "concerted effort" to "solicit a idiosyncratic vantage successful the adjacent election—this time, successful the signifier of an probe of his governmental adversaries by a overseas government."

In an evident effect to Biden's warning, Rep. Beth Van Duyne, R-Texas, introduced the Immediate Support for Israel Act connected Friday, which she said would unit the medication to present assistance and enactment that is passed by Congress.

"Weeks ago, Congress came unneurotic successful a bipartisan mode to walk an assistance bundle for Israel. In an unprecedented move, President Biden not lone halted the shipment of assistance but besides unilaterally added conditions to that precise aforesaid assistance - defying Congressional intent. Israel is presently engaged successful a warfare with a violent enactment that is inactive holding implicit 100 civilian hostages. There is simply nary excuse for this delay," Van Duyne said successful a connection obtained by Fox News.

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In a connection successful Hebrew connected the eve of Israeli Independence Day, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said, "if we request to basal alone, we volition basal alone."

"I person said that, if necessary, we volition combat with our fingernails."

Meanwhile, billionaire hedge money manager Bill Ackman, who has been vocally captious of antisemitism connected campus, responded to a clip of Biden's CNN interrogation with the comment: "Crazy: This is 1 of the worst acts against an state of a sitting president ever."

"Hopefully, this means helium won’t beryllium sitting for overmuch longer," Ackman wrote connected X.

The White House did not instantly respond to a petition for remark connected Pence's reaction.

Fox News' Chad Pergram and Yonat Friling contributed to this report.