Florida Congressman Randy Fine
Florida’s Republican Congressman Randy Fine has invoked the US atomic bombing of Japan during World War II and called for the nuclear annihilation of Gaza.
While speaking on Fox News Thursday, Fine compared the ongoing Israeli war to the end of World War II.
He argued that the nuclear bombings on Hiroshima and Nagasaki resulted in an “unconditional surrender” and that the “same” needs to happen with Gaza.
“In World War II, we did not negotiate a surrender with the Nazis, we didn’t negotiate a surrender with the Japanese. We nuked the Japanese twice in order to get an unconditional surrender. That needs to be the same here,” he said.
Fine has previously come under fire for his comments about the war, which the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) described as “violently anti-Muslim, anti-American, and anti-Palestinian.”
The CAIR, America’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, on Thursday strongly condemned Fine’s latest statement and urged both Republican and Democratic leaders to take immediate action to publicly denounce his genocidal rhetoric and remove him from all congressional committees and caucuses.
CAIR said Fine’s statement constitutes an explicit incitement to violence, endangering American Muslims and Palestinians, by calling for nuclear genocide against more than two million Palestinians, half of whom are children.
CAIR said the statement represents one of the most dangerous and dehumanizing remarks ever made by a sitting member of Congress and marks an escalation of Fine’s long-standing pattern of inciting violence and bigotry.
“Let’s be clear: Randy Fine is not just a dangerous bigot. He is a sitting member of Congress openly fantasizing about the nuclear genocidal extermination of Palestinians. Fine’s statements are more aligned with the genocidal maniacs of the Israeli Knesset than with any vision of American leadership, with the exception of Brian Mast,” said CAIR Government Affairs Director Robert S. McCaw.
“Fine’s deranged rhetoric is not only morally reprehensible but also deeply damaging to the Trump administration’s stated efforts to establish a ceasefire and pursue peace in the region,” he said.
“Congress must now decide whether it will uphold its ethical responsibilities or stand by while one of its own openly calls for mass murder of Palestinians. Silence in the face of genocide is complicity. There must be consequences.”
Israel’s genocidal war in the Gaza Strip continues to claim the lives of Palestinian civilians every single day.
Nearly 110 Palestinians were killed by Israeli soldiers in Gaza on Thursday.
Overall, some 16,500 Palestinian children have lost their lives in the brutal Israeli campaign so far.
With American support, the Israeli genocide has so far killed over 53,760 Palestinians and injured almost 122,200 others. Most of the victims have been women and children.
Authorities in Gaza said tens of thousands are missing or buried under mountains of rubble, many with “disintegrated bodies."
