Rick Scott

2024-04-20

Earlier Thursday, the  US House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed a resolution and supporting Israel's right to respond to Iranian aggression through military means.  The 13 most progressive members of the and one Republican voted against the legislatively symbolic resolution.  While Progressive Caucus member Rep. Mark Pocan (D-MI) voted in favor of Thursday's resolution, he's been heavily critical of Israel's conduct during the war and quickly condemned Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for retaliating against Iran.  This is why the US "can't continue to supply Netanyahu with offensive weapons," Pocan said.  "He’s going to bring us into a broader conflict we asked him not to do. His interests are NOT the United States interests," Pocan said on X. "I hope calmer heads prevail in Iran but doubt it. This could be very, very bad." Pocan said since he's been worried about a strategy by Netanyahu to make this a broader conflict by bringing in the US. Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends a vote on the state budget at the assembly hall of the Knesset, the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem, March 13, 2024. (credit: YONATAN SINDEL/FLASH90) "No American soldier should ever risk their life for another govt leaders’ actions. I worry Netanyahu can’t be trusted with offensive weapons from the US," Pocan added with the emojis of a peace sign, the Israeli flag and the Palestinian flag. Moderate Democrats and Republicans were quick to express their support for Israel.  Staunch Israel supporter Rep. Richie Torres (D-NY) said Israel has a right to defend itself from both direct and indirect forms of Iranian aggression.  "Iran fired hundreds of drones and missiles against Israel with the intent to inflict mass casualties," Torres said on X. "Iran has financed terror threats like Hezbollah, which has displaced thousands of Israelis from their homes; and Hamas, which perpetrated October 7th, the deadliest day for Jews since the Holocaust. "America stands with Israel!" Rep. Rich McCormick (R-GA) said on X.  Both of Florida's Republican senators expressed support for Israel on X.  "Israel has the ability to conduct strikes against targets inside Iran without entering Iranian air space from aircraft over Syrian and Iraqi airspace," Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) said.  Isfahan is home to Khatami Air Base and is located northeast of the city, Rubio added.  "The United States stands with Israel," Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL) said.  Sen. Roger Marshall (R-KY) said "we stand beside our friend and ally, Israel." California Republican Rep. Darrell Issa said Israel is in a fight that it must win.  Rep. Robert Aderholt (R-AL) said he will always support Israel's right to defend itself and to exist. He said that also means the right to retaliate against the Iranian regime that supports "death to Israel and death to America," he said ...قراءة المزيد

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2024-04-11

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will virtually address an event on Monday at a conservative DC think tank hosted by Keep God's Land, an organization formed after October 7 advocating against a two-state solution.  The group is made up of rabbis, evangelical pastors, former Israeli and US ambassadors, as well as members of Knesset.  Also speaking at Monday's event will be House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA), Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL), Rep. Claudia Tieney (R-NY) and Ohad Tal, a member of Knesset for the right-wing Religious Zionism party. US HOUSE of Representatives Speaker Mike Johnson holds a news conference on Capitol Hill, last month. (credit: LEAH MILLIS/REUTERS)  "A two-state solution that divides God’s land would be a direct rejection of God’s will as clearly and repeatedly stated in the Bible," according to Keep God's Land's website.  "Jews and Christians who believe in the Bible must stand together with the brave Jewish pioneers of Judea and Samaria to ensure Israel’s terrorist enemies and their antisemitic supporters do not succeed in their plan to drive the Jewish people out of God’s land," the website says.  President Joe Biden and his administration have posited that Palestinian statehood will be the only way for Israel to achieve long term peace and stability, a claim fervently rejected by Netanyahu.  ...قراءة المزيد

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2024-03-27

canceled the Israeli delegation that was meant to meet with senior US officials in DC this week as "a message to Hamas," said Netanyahu in a meeting with US Senator Rick Scott Wednesday.  Netanyahu canceled the delegation following a Monday that led to the adoption of a resolution calling for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza and the immediate release of the hostages. Likud leader MK Benjamin Netanyahu with Head of the Otzma Yehudit party MK Itamar Ben Gvir at a vote in the assembly hall of the Knesset, the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem, on December 28, 2022. (credit: OLIVIER FITOUSSI/FLASH90) "I thought the US decision in the Security Council was very, very bad," Netanyahu said in the meeting. "It encouraged Hamas to take a hardline and to believe that international pressure will prevent Israel from and destroying Hamas. "Therefore, my decision not to send the delegation to Washington in the wake of that resolution, was first and foremost a message to Hamas - don't bet on this pressure to work."  This is a developing story. ...قراءة المزيد

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2024-03-07

Republican US Senator Jim Risch from Idaho led senators of the in sending a letter to the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), the Committee announced on Monday. The letter was written in order to request a reconsideration of Pierre Krahenbuhl's appointment as director general due to his previous mismanagement of UNRWA, which he ran between 2014 and 2019.  The senators who include Senators Chuck Grassley, Iowa Republican; Cindy Hyde-Smith, Mississippi Republican; Eric Schmitt, Missouri Republican; Rick Scott, Florida Republican; Pete Ricketts, Nebraska Republican; John Kennedy, Louisiana Republican; Mike Braun, Indiana Republican; John Boozman, Arkansas Republican; Mike Crapo, Idaho Republican; Marsha Blackburn, Tennessee Republican; Steve Daines, Montana Republican; Thom Tillis, North Carolina Republican; Todd Young, Indiana Republica; John Cornyn, Texas Republican; Bill Cassidy Louisiana Republican; and Joni Ernst, Iowa Republican. Krahenbuhl was forced to quit UNRWA in 2019 in light of an internal ethics report that charged him with an alleged with his chief advisor during world trips, abuse of power, and corruption, which, at the time, caused Switzerland, Belgium, the Netherlands, and New Zealand to freeze funding, according to NGO, UN Watch. The allegations were corroborated by a May 2021 report by Geneva’s Le Temps.     According to Hillel Neuer, the director of UN Watch, in addition to his corruption and mismanagement, “Krahenbuhl promoted a false narrative that he was pushed out by a Trump-Israel-Jewish cabal,” he wrote on his X account, formerly Twitter. The letter states that the credible allegations against him, including “mismanagement, ethical misconduct, and abuse of authority”  at UNRWA in 2019, “disqualify him from leading the ICRC at this pivotal moment in history.” Israeli hostages are handed over to the International Red Cross at Rafah, this past week. (credit: FLASH90) In addition, the letter notes that during his tenure at UNRWA, “UNRWA facilities were repeatedly used to store weapons on behalf of the US-designated foreign terrorist organization Hamas. Moreover, under Mr. Krahenbuhl’s leadership, UNRWA textbooks included antisemitic material that incited anti-Israeli violence.”  The letter continues to say that the failure to address this, arguably, was a precursor to the October 7 massacre, which “we now know included direct participation by UNRWA employees.” The letter concludes, “The United States Congress takes these allegations and corresponding evidence extremely seriously. As the largest donor to the ICRC, we cannot stand idly by as yet another international organization falls prey to antisemitism and violence, let alone gross mismanagement and moral corruption.” The ICRC has already been charged with holding anti-Israel bias since the October 7 massacre. The Red Cross has been heavily scrutinized for failing to visit Israeli hostages and not reporting that the hostages had been taken to Shifa Hospital.  The Jerusalem Insitute of Justice (JIJ) conducted an analysis of the ICRC’s social media following Hamas's October 7 massacre and found that there were no posts, images, graphics, or videos highlighting the damages suffered by Israel as a result of Hamas or other Palestinian terrorist groups.  Neither were there any posts addressing the October 7 tragedy, rockets launched by Hamas indiscriminately at civilian populations, or the hostages kidnapped.  ...قراءة المزيد

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