MTG Torches Republican Colleague for Supporting Genocide in Gaza
Greene's post came in reaction to Fine's controversial comments last week, in which he dismissed a report about the starvation of Palestinians in Gaza, including children, as 'Muslim terror propaganda.' 'Release the hostages,' Fine wrote. 'Until then, starve away.'
Greene questioned Fine's commitment to his constituents in Florida's 6th congressional district, citing his alleged decision to move with his wife to Washington, D.C., rather than, per Greene's advice, to 'live in the district he will represent.'
'I can only imagine how Florida's 6th district feels now that their Representative, that they were told to vote for, openly calls for starving innocent people and children,' Greene wrote. 'It's the most truthful and easiest thing to say that Oct 7th in Israel was horrific and all hostages must be returned, but so is the genocide, humanitarian crisis, and starvation happening in Gaza.'
Greene added that Fine's statement, as 'a Jewish U.S. Representative,' will only 'cause more antisemitism.'
Greene joins only a handful of progressive lawmakers in condemning Israel for committing genocide. Several leading humanitarian organizations have already concluded that Israel's war on Gaza amounts to genocide, including Amnesty International, Doctors Without Borders, and, most recently, B'Tselem, a prominent Israeli human rights group.
Greene's stance on Israel has radically changed since the period immediately after Hamas's October 7, 2023, attack—at which time she smeared a pro-Palestinian protest on Capitol Hill as an 'insurrection' and sought to censure Representative Rashida Tlaib on spurious allegations of antisemitism. (The resolution attacked Tlaib for allegedly sharing a social media post 'blaming America for allowing the deaths of Palestinian babies at the hands of Israel.')
Since then, Greene has become a frequent critic of Israel, even introducing a bid earlier this month to cut funding for Israel's missile defense system, in which she was joined only by four progressives and fellow Republican Thomas Massie.
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