Republican senator says US delaying weapons shipment is ‘obscene’ and ‘absurd’

Republican US Sen. Lindsey Graham slams the Biden administration’s decision to delay a shipment of munitions to Israel to express concern over a potential ground operation in Rafah.

“If we stop weapons necessary to destroy the enemies of the State of Israel at a time of great peril, we will pay a price,” says Graham. “This is obscene. It is absurd. Give Israel what they need to fight the war they can’t afford to lose.”

Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell says in the Senate that Biden folded “under the heat of domestic political pressure from his party’s anti-Israel base and the campus Communists who decided to wrap themselves in the flag of Hamas and Hezbollah.”

McConnell says that the decision is “devastating” and that it will “embolden Iran and its terrorist proxies.”

Sen. Bernie Sanders, however, an independent, says “President Biden is absolutely right to halt bomb delivery to this extreme, right-wing Israeli government. But this must be a first step.”

Sanders says the US must now demand “an immediate ceasefire, the end of the attacks on Rafah and the immediate delivery of massive amounts of humanitarian aid to people living in desperation.”