WATCH: Hearing derailed as Ted Cruz accuses Biden official of funding Hamas attack on Israel
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Texas Republican Sen. Ted Cruz pulled no punches in questioning Secretary of State Antony Blinken during a heated Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing Tuesday.
The tense clash between the two began when Cruz blasted the Biden administration’s “worst foreign policy disaster in modern times,” referencing its handling of Iran and the Hamas terrorist attack on Israel on October 7, and culminated in the senator accusing the White House of indirectly financing the attack.
“Mr. Secretary, you have presided over the worst foreign policy disaster in modern times,” Cruz began. “When Joe Biden became president, he inherited world peace and prosperity. We now face two simultaneous wars: the worst war in Europe since World War II and the worst war in the Middle East in 50 years. Both, I think. , were caused by the continued weakness of this administration. »
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“Your foreign policy is precisely the opposite of what a rational American foreign policy should be toward our friends and allies. This administration has consistently undermined, weakened and attacked them,” he added. “And toward our enemies, this administration has demonstrated a consistent spirit of appeasement and has effectively paid billions of dollars to America’s enemies who want to kill us.”
The two men clashed over the Biden administration’s efforts to prevent Israel from attacking Rafah, a town in the Gaza Strip, as part of its efforts to eliminate Hamas terrorists among the Palestinians, with Cruz demanding to whether they had provided intelligence on terrorists to Israel. if they refrained from attacking.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Blinken denied such a step had been taken and tried to expand on what he said was President Biden’s support for Israel, but Cruz shut him down, saying he was not interested in a ” campaign speech.”
Cruz continued to pressure him, but Blinken called the notion “misleading and wrong” and said the U.S. government shared intelligence if it was available.
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{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Texas Republican Senator Ted Cruz. (Getty Images)
Cruz then accused Blinken and the State Department of repeatedly telling Israel “not to kill” Hamas terrorists, citing a tweet that the department then allegedly deleted immediately after the Oct. 7 attack, calling Israel “not to engage in military reprisals”.
“Senator, I was in Israel five days after October 7. I have been there seven times since. No one, starting with President Biden, has done more to make sure he gets what he needs to defend against Hamas, to deal with the situation with the threat,” Blinken said, as Cruz pushed back.
“It’s just wrong. … It’s ridiculous,” Cruz said, asking whether the administration had stopped sending weapons to Israel.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Blinken denied that the administration had cut off any weapons supplies, but Cruz began pressuring him for funding for Iran.
Cruz noted that Iranian oil production has increased since Biden took office and that the country has developed more “ghost” ships to circumvent sanctions against it and ship the oil.
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{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}In this photo released by the Iranian presidential office, President Ebrahim Raisi attends a meeting with his Azerbaijani counterpart Ilham Aliyev during the inauguration ceremony of the Qiz Qalasi Dam, or Girl’s Castle in Azeri, on the border of Iran and Azerbaijan, Sunday May 1. 19, 2024. (Iranian Presidency Office via AP)
“This administration desperately wants a new deal with Iran. You have invested money in Iran from day one,” Cruz said, referring to what he called the administration’s “refusal to apply oil sanctions.
“In a very real sense, this administration, you and President Biden financed the October 7 attacks by paying $100 billion to a homicidal and genocidal regime that financed those attacks,” he added.
Blinken quickly hit back, calling Cruz’s statement “profoundly false” and “shameful,” to which the latter responded: “Why?
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}“We have attacked Iran repeatedly with over 600 sanctions against them,” Blinken said.
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“Why are they selling 10 million barrels a day versus 300,000?” Cruz responded.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Blinken argued that Iran was working hard to circumvent sanctions and that the administration continued to “attack” them every day, even as the country was “committed” to selling more oil.
“They weren’t determined when Trump was president,” Cruz said.
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