‘This election is about whether we as a nation stand with Israel or capitulate to terrorists,’ Sen. Rick Scott said.
Two pro-Israel senators spoke at the Republican Jewish Coalition’s (RJC) Leadership Summit at the Venetian Las Vegas on Sept. 5, ending a night marked by praise for Israel and its embattled leader, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, amid the war with the Hamas terrorist group.
Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.) said the election this year is different than elections in the past because of the growth of anti-Semitism.
“This election is about whether we as a nation will tolerate anti-Semitism,” he said. “This election is about whether we as a nation stand with Israel or capitulate to terrorists.”
Jewish students are being attacked on college campuses in the United States, he said, adding that supporters of Hamas “burn the American flag and desecrate public property just steps from the Capitol.”
Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.), an Iraq War veteran and a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, said the United States should support Israel in its war against Hamas.
“There’s only one acceptable outcome in this war,” he said. “It is the defeat and the destruction…
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