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Bibi skyped with US Senate Republicans Wednesday, Senator Schumer uninterested
2024-03-22
In talk to GOP, PM estimates 28,000 have been killed in Gaza — 4,000 fewer than Hamas claims

[IsraelTimes] Speaking virtually to a gathering of Senate Republicans Wednesday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he is mindful of the civilian corpse count in Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
, Sen. Josh Hawley tells The New York Times

...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize...

"He was very mindful of it, he talked about it at some length," says Hawley, adding that Netanyahu insisted that Israel was making every effort to minimize civilian casualties.

Hawley recalls that Netanyahu estimated the corpse count in Gaza to be at roughly 28,000. The latest corpse count from the Hamas
...the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,...
-run health ministry in Gaza was just under 32,000. The Hamas toll does not distinguish between combatants and civilians, and is believed to include victims of terror groups’ own rocket misfires. Israel says the IDF has killed at least 13,000 button men in battle in Gaza from Hamas and other terror groups, as well as 1,000 forces of Evil inside Israel on or soon after October 7.

The Republican senator adds that Netanyahu told the politicians that he wasn’t asking for US ground troops to fight Israel’s war. However,
some people cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go...
the premier did request financial assistance from Washington, urging the senators to support any bill that includes security assistance for Jerusalem. Such legislation has been held up for months by House Republicans over disagreements with Democrats regarding immigration and Ukraine.

Related: Schumer said to decline Netanyahu’s request to address Senate Democrats

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