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Key conservative senators have intensified their support for the state of\u00a0Israel\u00a0amid rising support for anti-Israel intervention efforts, as well as American political candidates who champion Israel\u2019s enemies.\n<\/p>\n
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A recent report from\u00a0Axios\u00a0found support is declining in an unprecedented fashion among the political Right, which historically has favored Israel\u2019s fight against Islamic terrorism.\n<\/p>\n
Much of the declining support for the Jewish state comes as the\u00a0Israeli government, led by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, has entered into sustained wars against radical Islamic militias and regimes since Hamas raped, killed, and kidnapped over 1,000 Israeli civilians on Oct. 7, 2023.\n<\/p>\n
Since then, the United States has spent around\u00a00.38%\u00a0of its\u00a0annual defense budget\u00a0on Israel.\n<\/p>\n
However, many lawmakers, arguing that Israel continues to fight America\u2019s enemies abroad, hope that trend reverses in the long run.\n<\/p>\n
\u201cIsrael is a strong democracy in a region where terrorist regimes and organizations are dead-set on destroying its statehood, killing its people, and erasing its way of life\u2014exactly the same things they want for America,\u201d Sen.\u00a0Rick Scott, R-Fla., told the Daily Signal. \u201cThe United States and Israel share the same enemies, and those enemies all hate our shared Judeo-Christian values that form the foundations of both our countries.\u201d\n<\/p>\n
Scott\u2019s remarks come after Democratic Socialist candidates\u2014who have been seen\u00a0flashing headbands\u00a0from Hamas and refused to\u00a0condemn terrorist\u00a0attacks on Jewish citizens in Colorado\u2014won their congressional primaries.\n<\/p>\n
\u201cBecause of those shared interests, Israel and the United States have worked together to make the Middle East, and the world, a safer, freer place for decades,\u201d Scott continued. \u201cOur partnership delivers greater security, greater innovation, and weaker enemies for both America and Israel, and it does that without putting American servicemen and women in harm\u2019s way.\u201d\n<\/p>\n
The Iranian regime and Iranian-funded militias such as\u00a0Hezbollah and Hamas, which Israel is currently battling on multiple fronts, have historically maintained a campaign aimed at dominating the United States and Western civilization, not just the Jewish state.\n<\/p>\n
Israel has\u00a0eliminated\u00a0between 1,000 and 2,5000 Hezbollah fighters in 2026 alone.\n<\/p>\n
Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., after the Iranian regime refused to comply with the terms of the ceasefire the president\u2019s administration had outlined,\u00a0wrote on X\u00a0that Israel \u201cis our democratic ally fighting Hezbollah, Iran\u2019s terrorist proxy with American blood on its hands.\u201d\n<\/p>\n
\u201cPresident Trump is right: Iran needs to restrain its terrorist proxy, the U.S. should never restrain Israel from defending itself. And if Iran won\u2019t act, we should back Israel to the hilt,\u201d Cotton continued.\n<\/p>\n
In April, Sen.\u00a0Jim Risch, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, opposed the Democrat-led War Powers Resolution measure, which aimed to limit the president\u2019s military authority in the Middle East. On the Senate floor, he said that passing the resolution \u201cwould send the message that the United States is prepared to leave Israel vulnerable to further Iranian attacks and put the tens of thousands of Americans living there at risk.\u201d\n<\/p>\n
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