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Tom Cotton: “Because of President Trump's unrelenting pressure on Hamas…”

Featuring: Tom Cotton, Republican | U.S. Senate, Arkansas

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'Appeasement And Weakness': Tom Cotton Blasts Dem Lawmakers Over Foreign Policy Issues | 2025 Rewind

Published | Video Starts at 1:18:22

Instead of pressuring Israel to surrender, President Trump rejected the Obama Biden policy of appeasement and weakness, and we backed Israel to the hilt. Because of President Trump's unrelenting pressure on Hamas and Prime Minister Netanyahu's decisive military action, Iran's terrorist ring of fire around Israel is now a ring of smoke, smoking ruins. We have crippled Iran's nuclear weapons program, we have weakened the Houthis, we have devastated Hezbollah, and we have destroyed Hamas political and military leadership. (1:18:22–1:18:40)

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Asserts that Trump's pressure and Netanyahu's actions have turned Iran's threats into ruins.

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