CHICAGO, 17 June 2022, (TON): President Joe Biden needs to find the will to do the right thing and push Israelis and Palestinians together to achieve peace, one of his strongest supporters in Congress told media.

Congresswoman Marie Newman, a Democrat, said “the issue of Palestine and Israel is important to her constituents in her former 3rd District, and even more so in the newly drawn 6th District where she is running for re-election in the June 28, 2022 Democratic Primary election.”

Newman has been an outspoken critic of the Israeli government’s harsh policies toward Palestinians, including the home confiscations in Sheikh Jarrah and several other human rights violations.

But she insisted she supports Israel and the Biden administration, explaining that getting both to do the right thing is not something to be criticized for.

Newman said “I wish the answer was yes, Ray, I just don’t think it is there. I think it is not a priority for them. And as much as I scream about it, Rashida screams about it, and Ilhan.”

He said “there are 10 of us that talk to the State Department regularly about this and it has not been prioritized. We fight, we fight. We fight. Because every fight starts with one person. Then it grows to 10. And then it grows to a thousand. We have to fight.”