Scott: Supporters of Israel on right side of history
Almost one year ago, Israel was attacked. Homicidal terrorists had desecrated Israeli communities, bombarding and invading the Jewish state. So many innocent men, women and children — killed in cold blood on their own soil. And many more carried off as hostages.
We were stunned. But it was also a time of clear-eyed resolve.
We knew that America had to stop sending love letters and wire transfers to the terrorist supporters in Tehran. We knew that Republicans had to unite and bring an end to this failed Biden-Harris administration that pays lip service in public to Israel while undermining them behind closed doors.
We were also confronting something deeper than policy failures. In our city streets, on our college campuses, we saw how the rot of antisemitism had spread throughout our institutions here at home.
And we resolved that we would cut out that cancer.
One year ago, I gave the terrorist sympathizers a few reminders.
Getting a federal subsidy for your education is not a right. It’s a privilege. Getting a student visa so you can be a guest in our country is not a right. It’s a privilege.
Let’s talk about what is a right: The right of Jewish Americans to walk their own neighborhoods in safety. The right of Jewish students to study and worship in peace.
It turns out a lot can change in one year.
Americans overwhelmingly support Israel over Hamas. We are on the right side of history. And we’re on the march.
But there’s a problem.
Joe Biden has been a weak, disloyal partner for our friends in Israel. He’s slow-walked. He’s equivocated on the world stage. He’s emboldened Israel’s enemies and meddled in Israeli politics.
But even so, the radical left thought President Biden was too pro-Israel.
All those same people seemed mighty happy when Joe Biden was shoved off stage for the coronation of Kamala Harris. She’s pretending to sprint back toward the middle.
The Democratic Party and the corporate media are working overtime to rebrand this radical San Francisco liberal as some kind of centrist. She ran for president on racial reparations, socialized medicine and open borders. And now these people want us to believe she’s somewhere between Bill Clinton and Barry Goldwater.
I know Kamala Harris. I served in the Senate with Kamala. I’ve seen her in action. She’s going to pretend to be a moderate for the next nine weeks. And the media will bend over backward to help her.
But come Inauguration Day that mask of moderation would fall right off.
The failed Joe Biden foreign policy we see today — with a weak America, an emboldened Iran, land wars in Israel and Europe, and terrorists on the march — would be the absolute best case scenario under President Harris.
There’s a reason the radicals and the socialists and the antisemites were popping champagne corks when the Democrats coronated Kamala Harris.
The stakes for America and the stakes for Israel are even higher today than they were two months ago. We have nine weeks to continue our momentum and keep building on our success where it matters most.
Tim Scott is a Republican representing South Carolina in the U.S. Senate/InsideSources