Legal Insurrection by Terrance Kible 10/17/2023
Ten House members refused to cosponsor the resolution and introduced an alternative calling for ‘cease-fire in Israel and occupied Palestine.’
Nearly all members of the U.S. House of Representatives are cosponsoring a bipartisan “Standing with Israel” resolution introduced on Oct. 10. The resolution expresses condolences for lost Israeli and American lives after Hamas-led terrorist attacks and “reaffirms Israel’s right to self-defense” and the United States’ standing commitments to Israeli security.
A group of ten representatives, dubbed the “Hamas Caucus” by the Manhattan Institute’s Ilya Shapiro, initially refused to cosponsor the resolution:
Representatives Gwen Moore and Melanie Stansbury later cosponsored the resolution, and Representative Bennie Thompson’s spokesperson told Legal Insurrection Thompson would cosponsor the resolution.
The resolution the remaining ten refused to cosponsor, H.R. 771, strongly condemns Hamas’s “massive, unprovoked war on Israel by air, land, and sea” and “calls on all countries to unequivocally condemn Hamas’ brutal war against Israel.”
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