{"id":15248,"date":"2024-02-08T00:47:23","date_gmt":"2024-02-08T00:47:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/08\/fetterman-blasts-pro-palestinian-protesters-why-arent-you-demanding-that-hamas-surrenders\/"},"modified":"2024-02-08T00:47:23","modified_gmt":"2024-02-08T00:47:23","slug":"fetterman-blasts-pro-palestinian-protesters-why-arent-you-demanding-that-hamas-surrenders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/08\/fetterman-blasts-pro-palestinian-protesters-why-arent-you-demanding-that-hamas-surrenders\/","title":{"rendered":"Fetterman blasts pro-Palestinian protesters: \u2018Why aren\u2019t you demanding that Hamas surrenders?\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p class=\"speakable\">Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., blasted pro-Palestinian protesters calling for a cease-fire during a press conference with the families of Israeli hostages held by Hamas on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">He made the comments alongside a bipartisan group of both House and Senate lawmakers, as well as the speaker of the Israeli Knesset, Amir Ohana.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018I think I\u2019ve met with six, six family victim groups during all of this. And, you know, that should have stopped because everyone should have been home long ago,\u2019 Fetterman said.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018And I don\u2019t understand why, to anyone that is protesting or demanding for a cease-fire, let\u2019s be honest here, why aren\u2019t you protesting to bring them all home right now? Why aren\u2019t you demanding that Hamas surrenders as well?\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Fetterman said he supported an end to \u2018suffering and the death of innocent Palestinians and Israelis,\u2019 but argued peace would not be possible with the continued existence of Hamas, which invaded Israel and slaughtered over 1,200 people on Oct. 7.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018I support a two-state solution as well. But that is meaningless until Hamas is effectively eliminated,\u2019 the Pennsylvania Democrat said.<\/p>\n<p>Fetterman has emerged as one of Israel\u2019s most vocal backers among Senate Democrats and has been known to put on public displays rebuffing pro-Palestine protesters, including ones who showed up to his house recently.<\/p>\n<p>He blasted those making an \u2018equivalence\u2019 between Israel and Hamas on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Hamas now disavows and rejects a two-state solution as well, too, and now they are committed to the destruction of Israel,\u2019 Fetterman said. \u2018I would never want to negotiate with a group that [is] committed to my death as well.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Bring all of these people back home now\u2026 and stop pretending this is some kind of equivalence here,\u2019 he said.<\/p>\n<p>It comes just as the Senate is expected to vote on a security aid package giving dollars to Israel, Ukraine and Taiwan. A similar measure, which took months of negotiation to include conservative border policy changes, is expected to fail in the Senate on Wednesday afternoon amid fierce GOP opposition.<\/p>\n\n<div>This post appeared first on FOX NEWS<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., blasted pro-Palestinian protesters calling for a cease-fire during a press conference with the families of Israeli hostages held by Hamas on Wednesday. He made the comments alongside a bipartisan group of both House and Senate lawmakers, as well as the speaker of the Israeli Knesset, Amir Ohana. \u2018I think I\u2019ve met <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":15249,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-15248","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-politics"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15248\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}