{"id":1408,"date":"2025-07-28T20:47:03","date_gmt":"2025-07-28T20:47:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.logicalware.net\/?p=1408"},"modified":"2025-07-29T19:37:45","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T19:37:45","slug":"sen-angus-king-to-oppose-any-support-for-israel-amid-gaza-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.logicalware.net\/index.php\/2025\/07\/28\/sen-angus-king-to-oppose-any-support-for-israel-amid-gaza-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"Sen. Angus King to oppose &#039;any&#039; support for Israel amid Gaza crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Angus King (I-Maine) said Monday he will oppose \u201cany\u201d support for Israel amid the hunger crisis in Gaza.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am through supporting the actions of the current Israeli government and will advocate\u2014and vote\u2014for an end to any United States support whatsoever until there is a demonstrable change in the direction of Israeli policy,\u201d King <a href=\"https:\/\/www.king.senate.gov\/newsroom\/press-releases\/king-releases-statement-amid-growing-nutrition-crisis-in-gaza\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">said in a statement<\/a> on his website.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy litmus test will be simple: no aid of any kind as long as there are starving children in Gaza due to the action or inaction of the Israeli government,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, President Trump indicated a break with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on the <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/administration\/5423884-trump-netanyahu-gaza-starvation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">unfolding humanitarian crisis<\/a> in Gaza, where the president stated there was \u201creal starvation\u201d happening.<\/p>\n<p>Trump said to reporters during a meeting alongside British Prime Minister Keir Starmer that he was \u201cnot particularly\u201d in line with Netanyahu\u2019s claim that there was no starvation occurring in Gaza, which has faced mass destruction and death in Israel\u2019s war against Hamas.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI mean, based on television, I would say not particularly because those children look very hungry,\u201d Trump told reporters when asked about Netanyahu\u2019s claim.<\/p>\n<p>Rachael Cummings, Gaza humanitarian director for Save the Children, said <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/5422478-gaza-humanitarian-crisis-children\/\">the situation<\/a> for Palestinians in Gaza is \u201ccatastrophic\u201d and that &#8220;children are literally starving.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe situation in Gaza is catastrophic for children and increasingly now for adults. There is no food available in the market. Children are literally starving,\u201d Cummings said on ABC\u2019s \u201cThis Week.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>King said in his Monday statement that he \u201ccannot defend the indefensible,\u201d adding that \u201cIsrael\u2019s actions in the conduct of the war in Gaza, especially its failure to address the unimaginable humanitarian crisis now unfolding, is an affront to human decency.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat appears to be a deliberately-induced famine among a civilian population\u2014including tens of thousands of starving children\u2014can never be an acceptable military strategy,\u201d he continued.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Angus King (I-Maine) said Monday he will oppose \u201cany\u201d support for Israel amid the hunger crisis in Gaza. \u201cI am through supporting the actions of the current Israeli government<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.logicalware.net\/index.php\/2025\/07\/28\/sen-angus-king-to-oppose-any-support-for-israel-amid-gaza-crisis\/\" class=\"readmore\">Continue reading<svg class=\"icon icon-arrow-right\" aria-hidden=\"true\" role=\"img\"> <use href=\"#icon-arrow-right\" xlink:href=\"#icon-arrow-right\"><\/use> <\/svg><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sen. Angus King to oppose &#039;any&#039; support for Israel amid Gaza crisis<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1410,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.logicalware.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1408"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.logicalware.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.logicalware.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.logicalware.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.logicalware.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1408"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.logicalware.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1408\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1409,"href":"http:\/\/www.logicalware.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1408\/revisions\/1409"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.logicalware.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.logicalware.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.logicalware.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.logicalware.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}