After President Donald Trump said on Monday that children are starving in Gaza, Republican senators started to show some daylight between themselves and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, siding with Trump and acknowledging the starvation.
It’s only a slight departure from the Senate GOP’s overwhelming support for Israel. And senators tried to couch their recognition of the problem by blaming Hamas. But it’s one of the first splits Republicans have shown between them and Netanyahu, after Trump seemed incredulous that there was no hunger problem in Gaza.
Sen. Lindsey Graham, one of Israel’s closest allies in Congress, blamed Hamas for “it being the way it is,” but acknowledged there was a problem.