Newly elected NJ Democrat repeatedly dodges question on whether Iran is our adversary
Brown repeatedly pressed Hamawy on whether he viewed Iran as an adversary, and the conressman-elect continued to avoid answering despite Brown reminding him that Iranians have chanted, "Death to America." "We've been saying ‘Death to Iran’ for decades as well," Hamawy responded.
Key points
- and the Iranians want this war to end." RAHM EMANUEL ACCUSES ANTI-ISRAEL DEMS OF HAVING NO MIDDLE EAST PLAN BESIDES CUTTING FUNDING TO JEWISH STATE "Do you see Iran as the adversary?" Brown asked.
- PRO-ISRAEL LEADER WARNS DEMOCRATS FAILING TO CONDEMN ‘VICIOUS JEW HATERS’ IN CONGRESS Hamawy pushed for diplomacy over war, though Brown pointed out that he still refused to clarify his views on Iran or Israel.
- During an interview on CNN's "The Situation Room," co-host Pamela Brown repeatedly asked Hamawy about his views on both of the countries regarding his demand that the U.S.
New Jersey Democratic Rep.-elect Adam Hamawy struggled to answer whether he viewed Iran as an adversary and Israel as an ally to the U.S.
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- AOC-BACKED DEMOCRAT WITH PAST TIES TO AL QAEDA-LINKED GROUP WINS NJ HOUSE PRIMARY "I think both of them have proven dangerous in their own way," El-Sayed said in October.
- American officials who don't understand that should have no role in our country's foreign policy decisions," Rothstein told Fox News Digital.
- We have no business fighting." Hamawy won a House seat despite scrutiny for his previous volunteer work with the Benevolence International Foundation (BIF) — a Chicago-based charity that federal authorities later identified as providing financial and logistical support to al-Qaeda.
- Roz Rothstein, co-founder and CEO of StandWithUs, an international nonpartisan education organization that supports Israel, condemned Hamawy's comments, accusing him of refusing to acknowledge a "moral reality." "Representative-elect Hamawy refused to acknowledge a basic factual and moral reality.
- He later referred to the Iranian government as a "dictatorship" and "authoritarian," though he suggested that America's actions have made the country more radical.
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