Congress are engaged in this anti-israel and anti-semitic behavior and language and i think it has no place in the halls of congress. we need to stand united by our strongest ally in the middle east and that is israel. sandra: powerful statement there. meanwhile, i want to get to the waiving of sanctions of the builder of the pipelines. obviously this is a key story, up a key pipeline going from germany to russia. when you look at the waiving of those sanctions, this is a key ally of vladimir putin. karl rove was on earlier, and is baffled by the entire thing and calls it mind-boggling. listen. this is mind-boggling. the united states government is not going to sanction the ceo and the company that has in essence looking germany on cheap chinese and russian gas until russia no longer wants to have it cheap. we are surrendering an important
Progressives not satisfied, squad member ill had omar saying the cease-fire is not enough saying we need accountability for every war crime committed. senator bernie sanders wants to stop u.s. arms sails to israel following the footsteps of two other squad members i m a a ocasio-cortez and rashida tlaib. host a fox news sunday joins us now. a glimpse into how we will handle that and had the briefing just a moment ago with jen psaki there are no plans to end assistance to israel despite growing calls to suspend arms sails and aid. it used to be a no-brainer for american presidents, you stood with israel. our one great democratic ally in the middle east and it s become somewhat more complicated especially for democratic
Presidents has wee solid joe biden, he did stand by israel planned in a statement yesterday and said the u.s. is going to replenish the iron dome, the antimissile system we provided to israel but he has had to walk something of a tight rope for these last 11 days of the conflict because as you say, there was a growing movement on the left wing of the democratic party to say what about the palestinians, what about human rights abuses or as you heard they are, war crimes and then you have bernie sanders in the senate saying he will propose a $735 million military aid package to israel so biden on the one hand wants to stand by israel but on the other hand, he doesn t want to alienate a very important wing of his own political base. john: ilhan omar tweeted talking about u.s. policy after seeing what she called an occupation. we do know progressives are not
He is going ahead with a military arms sale to israel, going ahead with replenishing the iron dome and he waited until ten days to call for a cease-fire, waited one more day before he went ahead but he was dragging his feet and calling for a cease-fire until israel was ready to do it in one of the reasons in this adds to the complication, he knew if he called for a cease-fire too early that israel would just ignore him, that they would continue going until they had established their military gains in gaza in terms of setting hamas back and that wouldn t have helped him to make a call to netanyahu and he just ignored it. john: that seem to be the indication, quick shameless plug, who is coming up on fox news sunday? will have a top israeli official still trying to figure out who it s going to be to discuss the situation on the ground there and the question to how much support they think they
the response will come from the resistance. the question remains tonight whether or not this cease-fire will hold, both israel and hamas say if anyone violates the cease-fire, they will be a strong response. john: let s hope it holds. trey yingst for us in gaza city where sandra: with spring in texas republican congressman michael mccaul, thank you for being here. this is obviously a big moment in this conflict, president biden meanwhile is taking credit for it. first, listen. held intensive high-level discussions hour by hour, egypt, palestinian authorities, other middle eastern countries with the name of avoiding this sort of prolonged conflict we ve seen in previous years when hostilities have broken out. i extend my sincere gratitude to the senior egyptian officials who played such a critical role