NC Sen Ted Budd Backs Israel, Calls Hamas ‘Impediment To Peace’

North Carolina congressional support of Israel in its Middle East war with Hamas was affirmed Monday evening by U.S. Sen. Ted Budd.

The Republican’s position was made clear in a social media post by Rev. Mike Huckabee, the ambassador to Israel for the Trump administration and former governor of Arkansas. They were responding to 25 Western countries – led by Britain, Canada, France, Italy and Australia – and the European Union commissioner issuing a joint statement calling for a ceasefire and assessing blame on both sides.

Budd said on social media, “653 days after October 7th, 50 hostages remain held captive by Hamas in Gaza. What was true on day one is still true today: Hamas is the impediment to peace and must release the hostages immediately.”

Huckabee called the statement “disgusting.” He said putting pressure on Israel “instead of savages of Hamas” and blaming America’s ally was “irrational.”

Israel rejected the statement.

The North Carolina Democratic Party, gathering this coming weekend for its annual convention in Raleigh, has, through its executive committee on June 28, adopted a resolution declaring Israel guilty of apartheid against Palestinians. It also said Israel is guilty of genocide in Gaza; and using American weapons in “self-defense” against hospitals, schools, homes, refugee camps, mosques, churches, journalists and humanitarian aid workers.

The Center Square was unsuccessful getting comment, and has otherwise seen silence, on the statement from the governor, former Gov. Roy Cooper, four other Democratic members of the Council of State, and all four North Carolinians in the U.S. House of Representatives.