The Israel Defense Force has another battle.  But this time it’s against fake news from the American media.

Shortly after an explosion in Gaza City, the Hamas-run Gaza health ministry came out and claimed that an Israeli airstrike on a hospital killed 500 people.  Instead of fact-checking the group that had murdered thousands of civilians a week earlier, all the news outlets rushed to write the story with headlines like “Hundreds killed in Israeli air strike on Gaza hospital - health authorities” or “Israeli Strike kills Hundreds in Hospital, Palestinians Say.”  In fact, even some Members of Congress like Rashida Tlaib, Ilhan Omar and Summer Lee did not give a second thought before tweeting condemnations on Israel for the atrocity.

But here’s a problem: it turned out - unsurprisingly - Hamas was lying.

According to the preliminary conclusion by our own Pentagon, the explosion was caused by an Palestinian Islamic Jihad rocket misfire.  In fact, mounting evidence shows that not only was there little to no structural damage done to the hospital, it was the parking lot that was hit by the debris from the missile.

Thanks to their eagerness to blame Israel, the news media is now busy walking back its original claims.

Also this week, President Biden had the opportunity to push back on false reports and double down on American support for Israel during his state visit.  But instead, he announced that $100 million of our tax dollars will go into Gaza and the West Bank - which is all but guaranteed to fall into Hamas’ hands - all while Hamas holds an unknown number of Americans hostage.  In the same speech, President Biden also called for a two-state solution which would force Israelis to live next to terrorists seeking to kill more Jews.  This is a colossal mistake for the Biden Administration.

No matter the idiotic decisions from this White House, Israel has been and will continue to be one of the strongest allies of the United States.  As your Representative, I will always make that clear and will continue to call out the Biden Administration for its ridiculous policies that too often put Americans and our allies last.