87 Senators Sign Letter Urging Obama’s Support of Israel, Media Mostly Mum
Posted on | June 27, 2010 | 2 Comments
This comes in response to last month’s highly-publicized flotilla incident in the Mediterranean Sea and the United Nations predictable anti-Israel reaction.
Despite the overwhelming bipartisan outcry — something rather rare in Washington these days to be sure — very few American media outlets bothered to report the news.
Fortunately, the Hill published the following Wednesday (h/t Weasel Zippers):
“[V]ideo footage shows that the Israeli commandos who arrived on the sixth ship, which was owned by the Turkish Humanitarian Relief Foundation (the IHH), were brutally attacked with iron rods, knives, and broken glass,” the senators wrote.
“They were forced to respond to that attack and we regret the loss of life that resulted,” the letter adds.
The bipartisan group of lawmakers urged Obama to oppose a resolution in the United Nations critical of Israel.According to JTA.org, a similar letter has been signed by 307 Representatives in the House.
Yet, besides the Hill, LexisNexis and Google News searches produced only Agence France-Presse and UPI reporting this news in the States.
Readers are advised that too many of the signatures were illegible making it impossible to know who the thirteen Senators that didn’t sign the letter are.
Stay tuned.
—Noel Sheppard is the Associate Editor of NewsBusters. Follow him at Facebook and Twitter.
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Videography by Barbara Rosenfeld 

June 27th, 2010 @ 4:39 am
https://beforeitsnews.com/news/86/767/Bombshell:_Hawaii_Official,_Janice_Okubos_birth_certificate_was_used_to_forge_Obamas_COLB,_Amended_Obamas_Records,_Got_Politifact.html
June 27th, 2010 @ 7:30 am
87 Senators out of 100 are FOR ISRAEL.
How wonderful, this vote can help save God’s blessing upon our nation.