Rep. Michael McCaul (R-TX) blasted President Joe Biden for holding back “precise” weaponry from Israel amid its conflict against Hamas.
McCaul appeared on This Week on Sunday to go into further detail about the weaponry that the House Foreign Affairs Committee, which he chairs, signed off to give to Israel. It has been over 200 days since Hamas launched its attack on Israel and the country responded with military missions across Gaza to eliminate the terrorist group.
“What we’re worried about is sort of a defiance of congressional intent here that we passed these weapons out of Congress, and now the president’s holding them back,” McCaul said. “I would say most of these weapons are precision-guided weapons and that means precise, and that means that it spares civilian casualties because the targeting is so precise.”
This interview came almost a month after the passage of H.R. 8034, the Israel Security Supplemental Appropriations Act. Congress allotted another $26.38 billion to Israel despite the opposition of some 58 representatives. On the same day, the House approved $60.84 billion in aid to Ukraine, which McCaul suggested could appear to be in jeopardy.
“Where it matters is a signal and the message we’re sending the rest of the world that you can’t count on the United States, can’t trust the United States. That our allies, you know, and our enemies see this as well,” McCaul said. “I think Russia and China are right there looking at this too.”
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Approximately 34,000 Palestinians have been killed during the conflict in Gaza, according to the local health ministry. The ministry’s count doesn’t distinguish between combatants and non-combatants but alleges that two-thirds of their dead are women and children.
Biden said in an interview with CNN on Wednesday that he would not supply offensive weapons to Israel that could be used in Rafah, the last major Hamas stronghold in Gaza.
