As long as Senator Fetterman is on the scene, it is clear that bipartisan support for Israel still has a pulse
Five hours before our scheduled meeting with Senator John Fetterman at a hotel in Jerusalem, the city was roused from sleep by an air raid siren. A missile was on its way, fired by one of the many terrorist groups bent on disrupting Israeli life.
The Democratic senator from Pennsylvania was among those jarred awake by the sudden shrill wail. Not that he needed further convincing to support Israel’s right to defend itself — Fetterman has long been one of the most steadfast allies of the Jewish state in the halls of American power — but experiencing firsthand the menace that Israelis live with daily brought home the stakes of his convictions.
“As part of my visit [to Israel], I got a chance to visit the heroes in the Iron Dome,” he said later that day. “And then overnight… we were able to really connect what we were visiting earlier. That’s what keeps Israel safe. And that’s why I’m always incredibly supportive of all of that, and how disgusting it is that there are members of my party that even voted against those kinds of funding.”
Fetterman’s journey to Israel was not a political junket in the traditional sense. It had been organized and sponsored by Relief Resources, an organization at the vanguard of mental health awareness and education in the Jewish world, with 11 offices worldwide, including New York, London, and Jerusalem.
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