During an interview on “Meet the Press” this morning, Sen. Raphael Warnock, D-Ga., was asked whether there should be a red line when it comes to supporting Israel after Biden said he is “never going to leave Israel” in an exclusive interview with MSNBC.
“Well, I think that we’ve got to continue to lean on Mr. Netanyahu. We’ve got to insist that that this cannot continue in this way,” he said.
Pressed again by moderator Kristen Welker whether he has a red line, particularly when it comes to a ground invasion of Rafah, Warnock said he has made clear that going into Rafah would be “morally unjustifiable and unconscionable.”
“I stated that very clearly the other night on the floor of the United States Senate that I think that to go into Rafah — the humanitarian experts, to folks who are trying to get aid in, to folks who have no political dog in this fight have said that if they go into Rafa you could lose up to 85,000 more Palestinians in six months,” he said. “I think that that is morally unjustifiable and unconscionable.”
“And as we make our way to the holy season of Ramadan and Passover thereafter, I hope people will dig deep into the moral cisterns dug by ancestors that they will reach toward the highest ideals and our humanity sent to the children and find our way to that path that leads to peace,” he added.
Welker also pressed Warnock on Biden’s announcement during his State of the Union address that the U.S. is building a port to get more humanitarian aid into Gaza, asking whether it’s enough for the U.S. to sent more aid as the number of innocent civilians’ death continues to rise.
“Listen, we have got to find our way quickly to the path that leads to peace. That’s why the other night on the floor of the United States Senate, I pushed for a ceasefire,” he said. “I think the President — I know the President is working hard to get to a ceasefire. Mr. Netanyahu has got to recognize that we’ve already seen the deaths of some 30,000 Palestinians, many of them innocent women, men and children.”
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