Meanwhile, Lindsey Graham has called for Israel to “level the place” as the city’s death toll rises from ongoing Israeli airstrikes.
“There needs to be a path to a Palestinian state,” Biden told Scott Pelley. The more measured remarks represent a stark contrast from the over-the-top rhetoric of figures on the right like Lindsey Graham, who have seemingly been unable to contain their bloodlust, and reflect mounting concerns that the already-high civilian cost of the conflict could grow as Israel prepares to launch a ground invasion.
” Those moves come as the president faces increasing pressure from within his party to do more in response to the Israeli airstrikes that have fueled the rising civilian death toll in Gaza. “I am calling for immediate de-escalation and ceasefire to save countless civilian lives, no matter their faith or ethnicity,” Democratic Representative Rashida Tlaib said in a statement Sunday critical of Biden. “War crimes cannot be answered with war crimes.
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