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They are at time.com/newsletters and are separate from a paid subscription. ## Video: Schumer and McConnell Express Their Approval for President Joe Biden's Trip to Israel [Watch (HLS stream): Schumer and McConnell Express Their Approval for President Joe Biden's Trip to Israel](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/GMO8JpZ9.m3u8) (4:26)  _Published 2023-10-17. Senate Majority and Minority leaders express their approval for President Joe Biden's trip to Israel._ --- Oct 17, 2023 8:20 PM UTC --- ## More From This Series [All Videos](https://time.com/video/) [Biden's Israel Tipping Point](/video/89WdxSdi/) ### Biden's Israel Tipping Point [Joe Biden's New Hampshire Trip Had Some Very Joe Biden Moments](/video/wXD0GujO/) ### Joe Biden's New Hampshire Trip Had Some Very Joe Biden Moments [Photo Reflections: Joe Biden's Suit](/video/spLCnxO3/) ### Photo Reflections: Joe Biden's Suit --- ## Transcript October 7th will go down as a day of indistinguishable grief. The deadliest single day for Jews since the Holocaust, a reminder, of much older darker days, we must never return to one of my colleagues and I travel to Israel this past weekend. We delivered a simple message to the Jewish people America will stand with Israel as an unrelenting partner. And I promised that I'll do everything possible to ensure that the United States Senate provides Israel with the support she needs to defend her people. As the highest-ranking Jewish elected official ever in America, as the first Jewish majority leader. I will do everything I can to see that that happens as well. So many of my colleague, I've known President Biden when he was Senator Biden and Vice President Biden and now President Biden his support for his real comes from the heart. He's a Believer and that is so good and I know he'll deliver a strong message of support and solidarity when he comes before the Jewish people. And I know that he will reiterate, as are my colleagues and I did when meeting with each Israeli leader, the need to follow the laws of war and minimize civilian, Palestinian deaths that make no mistake. The task is, real faces is so so difficult to eliminate the threat of a mice, hard enough, secure. The return of Say pasta hostages safely held by these evil vicious, horrible terrorist cruel And do so. While minimizing the loss of innocent, Palestinian lives. This is all not easy but it's very important. We make every effort to achieve all through with the house in disarray. The Senate will not wait to vote on an Israeli. A package. We can't wait for the senate for the house. Who knows what's going to be happening there? This and it will go first and it's my hope that if the Senate can move quickly and pass something with strong bipartisan support, we can import to in the house to act despite its current her ass. Always encouraged to hear the President. Biden was visit Israel tomorrow. As the Jewish State Mourns the victims of the barbaric October 7th attacks and is Israel forces. Continue their work to root out. The terrorists responsible is important for the president. To represent Israel's closest Ally and bear witness to the destruction wrought by a Palestinian. Palestinian Islamic Jihad and their patrons. And Tehran in our grief and in our anger, America's interest in Israel's interest. Are truly intertwined. And our policies must be as well. Everybody needs to demonstrate our support for this difficult but necessary stuff, Israel must take to destroy the terrorist capacity to wage war. You need to reject the false moral equivalence that Israelis parental perennial critics are using damask at a somatic hatred. Age of resistance, already mounting pressure in the media and in diplomatic channels to constrain Israel's effort to defend itself. You need to make it clear that his administration will do everything possible to keep Israel. The time and the space. It needs to conduct the required military operations. As long as it takes the terrorists and their sponsors. With Israel and American blood on their hands. Represents a clear and present danger to the United States. You are our love and our interest. It's long past time for America to meet this threat with serious and credible deterrence. ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"Schumer and McConnell Express Their Approval for President Joe Biden's Trip to Israel","description":"Senate Majority and Minority leaders express their approval for President Joe Biden's trip to Israel. 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