House, Senate Republicans blame Biden's policies for Iranian attack on Israel

• Published date: 14 April 2024
• Author: HANNAH SARISOHN
• Publication title: Jerusalem Post, The: Web Edition Articles (Israel)

Sen. John Barrasso, a Wyoming Republican on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said President Biden's failure to stand firmly with Israel is playing right into the hands of Iran and its network of terrorists

Barrasso said Senate Republicans' support for Israel would never waver.

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) said tonight's attacks would not have happened on former President Donald Trump's watch.

"So much for President Biden telling bad guys 'don'' actually being an effective deterrent. Every time he says 'don't,' they do," Graham said in a post on X. "I hope the American people are closely following just how dangerous the world has become in the last three years."

Tennessee Republican Sen. Bill Hagerty, another member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said Iran's "direct & unprecedented attack against Israel shows that Biden's Middle East policies have failed to achieve deterrence & instead enabled and emboldened Iran."

"Biden must abandon his failed appeasement strategy immediately," Hagerty said.

Hagerty went on to praise former president Donald Trump for moving the US embassy to Jerusalem, recognizing Israeli sovereignty over the Golan, signing the Abracam Accords and for initiating maximum pressure sanctions and taking out Soleimani without war.

"We must return to Trump Admin's policies that delivered peace to the Middle East," Hagerty said.

Tennessee's senior senator, Republican Marsah Blackburn, also invoked former president Trump.

"Under President Trump, Iran was broke. President Biden gifted them billions of dollars and then naively said 'don't,'" Blackburn said. "'Don't' is not a foreign policy. Joe Biden's policies have funded Iran's attack on Israel."

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