Lincoln Diaz-Balart: “I thank the chairman for yielding time. Mr. Speaker, I rise in strong support of the Israel Security Assistance Support…”

“I thank the chairman for yielding time. Mr. Speaker, I rise in strong support of the Israel Security Assistance Support Act. The reason we are here is because the Biden administration, despite all the rhetoric, has broken its so-called ironclad commitment to Israel by halting shipments of weapons at a time when Israel needs them the most. These are weapons not only that Israel has asked for but that President Biden himself asked Congress to provide. This administration's argument is that the bill undermines the President's ability to ``execute an effective foreign policy.'' Does anyone really believe that this administration has an effective foreign policy? Do I need to remind my colleagues of what the former Secretary of Defense, Mr. Gates, said of Mr. Biden, that ``he has been wrong on nearly every major foreign policy and national security issue over the past four decades''? What the administration doesn't understand, Mr. Speaker, is what an effective foreign policy requires. It requires having the ability to distinguish allies from enemies, those fighting for their lives in self-defense versus terrorists seeking to kill, harm, and destroy them. Israel must do what is necessary to eradicate that depraved terrorist group, Hamas, a proxy of terrorist state Iran, the same Iran which also, for the first time ever, under the weakness of this administration, directly attacked Israel.…”