Democrat lawmakers privately concede they are worried that support for Israel inside the caucus following the brutal attack by Hamas will begin slipping in the coming days.
"For the last couple of days we've seen all the pictures of girls who were killed at this festival and the children and the parents and the Holocaust survivor and the elderly, and the hundreds of people who are dead and the stories about them being raped," one unidentified Democrat lawmaker, told Politico.
And at times, the relationship between President Joe Biden and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been tested.Rep. Cori Bush, D-Mo., recently decried lives taken on both sides "following attacks by Hamas militants on Israeli border towns and Israeli military bombardment of Gaza," rather than reinforce Israel's right to retaliate.
Meanwhile, GOP members of Congress and White House hopefuls alike ripped into Biden for his past criticism of Israel over settlement expansion, a controversial judicial overhaul plan by Netanyahu, in addition to the recent unfreezing of $6 billion in Iranian assets as part of a deal to free American detainees, according to ABC News.
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