Tensions ran excessive throughout a Wednesday evening debate between New York Republican Rep. Michael Lawler and ex-Democratic Congressman Mondaire Jones — because the two clashed over opposing views on the Israeli-Palestinian battle.
Jones, throughout the CBS Information showdown, was pressed about beforehand supporting a plan of having Israel relinquish land it seized after being attacked by Arab states within the 1967 struggle — which the Jewish State received.
Jones stated there needs to be a “two-state resolution” between Israel and Palestinians, including “A part of that has to incorporate a type of land swap.”
He stated settlement enlargement within the West Financial institution “was inappropriate” beneath Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and that these settlements ought to be dismantled.
Lawler shot again, “Are you out of your thoughts? You’re speaking about land swaps?”
The freshman congressman stated he opposed pressuring Israel to relinquish land.
Lawler argued {that a} peaceable two-state resolution is a pipe dream till surrounding Arab nations formally acknowledge the Jewish State — significantly Saudi Arabia.
Solely then can there be any dialogue of a two-state Israeli-Palestinian resolution.
The 2 are vying for the Home seat within the seventeenth Home District within the decrease Hudson Valley protecting Rockland and Putnam counties and elements of Westchester and Dutchess counties. The district has a big Jewish, pro-Israel constituency.
Through the one-hour debate, Lawler and Jones repeatedly talked over one another amid name-calling.
Lawler known as Jones a “socialist” and Jones known as the congressman a “mini-fascist.”
“If it talks like a socialist, votes like a socialist. People, it’s a socialist,” stated Lawler, who sought to color Jones as a radical leftist.
Jones linked Lawler to former President Donald Trump, the Republican White Home nominee.
Each candidates have been requested to reply to former Trump chief of employees John Kelly claiming in interviews that Trump was a “fascist” who needed the US army management to be like “Hitler’s generals.”
Jones stated of Lawler, “If it talks like a fascist, helps a fascist for president …It’s a mini-fascist.”
Lawler, when requested about Kelly’s feedback, stated he would “condemn any remarks” selling Hitler or fascism.
Jones responded, “It’s a shame for Mike Lawler to proceed to help this man.”
Lawler is searching for a second time period after defeating ex-Congressman Sean Patrick Maloney in 2022.
Jones, who was elected to the seventeenth District in 2020, declined to hunt re-election after redistricting modified the district and would have pitted him in opposition to fellow Democrat Maloney.
He as a substitute ran within the tenth District protecting decrease Manhattan and brownstone Brooklyn two years in the past, dropping to Democratic Rep. Dan Goldman within the Democratic main.
The ex-congressman is now working for his previous seat in opposition to Lawler.
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