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A variety of members of Congress have discussed possible resolutions to the Israel-Hamas war, though one Michigan Republican went in a direction others have avoided. NBC News reported: At a town hall meeting last week, a local voter asked, in apparent reference to Palestinians in Gaza, “Why are we spending our money to build a port for them?” According to a video from the event, Walberg said, “We shouldn’t be spending a dime on humanitarian aid.
It was, after all, Biden and his team that shielded Palestinians in the United States from deportation, approved aid drops into Gaza, denounced Israel’s expansion of settlements in the West Bank, began construction of a port on Gaza’s Mediterranean coast to receive humanitarian assistance by sea, warned Netanyahu’s government not to launch an assault on Rafah, and sponsored a United Nations resolution calling for “an immediate and sustained cease-fire” in the Israel-Hamas war.
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