2 weeks Ago By Julianna Frieman
Democratic Pennsylvania Sen. John Fetterman clapped back at New York Times (NYT) reporter Lulu Garcia-Navarro over a question on Israel’s war against terror in an interview released Saturday. Garcia-Navarro poked at Fetterman’s unwavering support for Israel following the deadly Oct.
7, 2023 attack by Islamic terror group Hamas with a slew of questions . The Democratic senator remained consistent when pressed about Israel’s exploding pager attack of mid-September which targeted Hezbollah terrorists in Lebanon. Fetterman told the NYT reporter he “absolutely” does support Israel’s pager attack despite the Philadelphia and Pittsburgh chapters of the Council on American Islamic Relations condemning him in a joint statement issued in late September.
(RELATED: Democratic Senator Marvels That Trump Support In Key Battleground State Is ‘Astonishing’) “They said, ‘When our elected officials start condoning the civilian loss of life, our collective moral compass is irreparably harmed,’” Garcia-Navarro said. “It was targeted for members of Hezbollah. You know, no one uses beepers in that situation other than they were a member of Hezbollah,” Fetterman countered.
“There was a young child who was killed,” the NYT reporter said. “Unfortunately, tragically, because daddy was a member of Hezbollah,” Fetterman responded. “He brought that danger and evil into their home.
And that’s what tragically resulted in that poor child’s death.” “That’s what’s so terrible. She paid the price because her father was a terrorist for Hezbollah,” he added.
Garcia-Navarro asked Fetterman earlier if he thinks Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is working to help elect Trump, which the Democratic senator said he does not believe. “I don’t believe that. I don’t.
And if you think that might be, I don’t know why it’s helpful to say that publicly,” Fetterman said. “I have to believe all of those college protesting and a lot of those other things, they would give Hamas opportunity to rejoice a lot of this division. But now there’s not much left of them anymore to celebrate.
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