A) McConnell on Mideast: We are already seeing some push the false narrative that this conflict is a tragic dispute between two legitimate combatants where both sides share blame that is roughly equal.
B) McConnell: This yields calls for blanket ceasefires, and people wagging their fingers at both sides. This camp apparently includes some of our Senate colleagues.
C) McConnell: To say that “both sides” need to de-escalate downplays the responsibility the terrorists have for initiating this conflict in the first place, and suggests Israelis are not entitled to defend themselves against on-going rocket barrages.
D) McConnell: I completely reject this obscene moral equivalence. The second false narrative, of course, is the view on the increasingly vocal far-left that Israel is, to quote one far-left member of the House, an ‘apartheid state.’
E) McConnell: If the so-called international community wants to actually make a difference, they can impose real costs on those who fund the terror weapons of Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad. We know the return address: It is Tehran.
F) McConnell: President Biden must remain strong against the growing voices within his own party that create false equivalence between terrorist aggressors and a responsible state defending itself.
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