Former NJ 知事 Chris Christie becomes first 2024 GOP 希望に満ちた to visit イスラエル and says US must stand against Hamas
- The comments （機の）カム as Christie, 61, 小旅行するd a kibbutz that was 荒廃させるd in the Oct. 7 rampage - making him the first GOP 希望に満ちた to do so since the war started
- As Israeli 軍隊／機動隊s 行うd 猛烈な／残忍な 戦う／戦いs against Hamas Sunday, the former New Jersey 知事 spoke with Israeli leaders, 兵士s, and families of 人質s
- Calling the IDF's 返答 'a noble 成果／努力', the 61-year-old 共和国の／共和党の 誓約（する）d to return to the US to tell his 同僚s and fellow 国民s what he had seen
共和国の／共和党の 大統領の 候補者 Chris Christie has 宣言するd the US should stand 'shoulder to shoulder' with イスラエル during his visit to areas 攻撃する，衝突する by attacks from Hamas 交戦的なs last month.
The comments （機の）カム as Christie, 61,?小旅行するd a kibbutz that was 荒廃させるd in the October 7 rampage - making him the first GOP 希望に満ちた to do so since the two groups entered a war that is 現在／一般に still 激怒（する）ing.
As Israeli 軍隊／機動隊s 行うd 猛烈な／残忍な 戦う／戦いs against Hamas Sunday, the former New Jersey?知事 spoke at length with Israeli leaders, 負傷させるd 兵士s, and families of 人質s during what 量d to a one-day visit.
Calling the IDF's 現在進行中の 返答 'a noble 成果／努力,' he 誓約（する）d to return to the US to tell his 同僚s what he had seen - after 耐えるing 証言，証人／目撃する to the 影響 of a strike on?one of more than 20 towns and villages attacked by Hamas that fateful day.?
More than a month later, イスラエル says more than 1,200 people were killed and 239 taken 人質 - with 総理大臣 Benjamin Netanyahu recently 拒絶するing a 停戦 提案 the terror group （人命などを）奪う，主張するs would have seen the 人質s returned.
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共和国の／共和党の 大統領の 候補者 Chris Christie 宣言するd the US should stand 'shoulder to shoulder' with イスラエル on Sunday, during a 約束d visit to on one of more than 20 towns and villages attacked by Hamas on October 7
The daylong visit saw him 小旅行する the savaged town of Kfar Azza (see n here), before 誓約（する）ing his devotion to the Middle Eastern nation in its 現在進行中の 衝突 against the group responsible
As Israeli 闘士，戦闘機 jets buzzed 総計費, Christie 小旅行するd the kibbutz と一緒に the （衆議院の）議長 of イスラエル's 議会, Am ir Ohana, before 表明するing his horror at what he had seen.
'Leaders in our country need to see this for themselves, because you can’t - just from this ? you can’t really understand it until you see it,' he told reporters after the 小旅行する of Kfar Azza.
'I （機の）カム here because I 手配中の，お尋ね者 to see this for myself,' he 追加するd.
Days after he 発表するd his 意図 to make the visit - すなわち to speak to families of the people taken 人質?to get a better understanding of some of the sticking points of the 衝突 - he 空気／公表するd 意図 to stand with イスラエル during whatever may come.?
Donning a flak jacket and 側面に位置するd by an 側近 of Israeli 兵士s, he made his 姿勢 known.??
'I ーするつもりである to go 支援する to the US and talk about this 定期的に so that the American people who are 存在 asked to sacrifice - and to help イスラエル financially and 軍事的に - will know what they’re doing is not only a noble 成果／努力 on their part, but also what friends do for friends.
'And America has no greater friend in the world than イスラエル,' he quickly 追加するd, 特記する／引用するing the two countries' long history.
'We need to make sure that we refresh that friendship at times of 危険，危なくする like this.'
As Israeli 闘士，戦闘機 jets buzzed 総計費, Chr istie 小旅行するd the kibbutz と一緒に the （衆議院の）議長 of イスラエル's 議会, Amir Ohana (to Christie's left) and IDF Spokesperson Maj. Liad Diamond (his 権利), before 表明するing his horror at what he had seen
Christie, 中心, looks at 罪，犯罪 scene photos as he visits Kibbutz Kfar Azza, 近づく the イスラエル-Gaza 国境, the 場所／位置 of one of the October 7 大虐殺s by Hamas, with Ohana, left and Army Maj. Diamond, 権利, Sunday
Christie, 中心 権利, looks at a baby carriage as he visits Kibbutz Kfar Azza, 近づく the イスラエル-Gaza 国境 with イスラエル's Knesset （衆議院の）議長 Amir Ohana, left and Israeli Army Maj. Diamond
Diggers （疑いを）晴らす the 場所／位置 of the former police 駅／配置する on October 12 in Sderot, イスラエル. イスラエル has 調印（する）d off Gaza and 行為／行うd airstrikes on Palestinian 領土 after the October attack
As Israeli 軍隊／機動隊s 行うd 猛烈な／残忍な 戦う／戦いs against Hamas Sunday, the former New Jersey 知事 spoke at length with Israeli leaders, 負傷させるd 兵士s, and families of 人質s during what 量d to a one-day visit. A 発射 from city of Sderot shows ロケット／急騰するs 解雇する／砲火／射撃d from the Gaza （土地などの）細長い一片 迎撃するd by イスラエル's アイロンをかける ドーム 弁護 ミサイル system on October 14
During the visit - which also saw him speak with IDF Army Maj. Diamond - Christie watched a film of gruesome （映画の）フィート数 pulled from the 団体／死体 cameras of one of Hamas's 交戦的なs who engaged in the attack, now 収集するd by the Israeli army.
He also made his way through homes with 塀で囲むs riddled by bu llet 穴を開けるs and couches stained with 血 - 証拠 of some of the heinous 行為／法令／行動するs that transpired there just a few weeks before
Over a month 除去するd, many Kfar Azza houses are burnt out and destroyed - structures that are left standing are scribbled with Arabic graffiti.?
Speaking to reporters and several Israeli 公式の／役人s and 国民s, Christie spoke about the visit's significance - and how it was 影響する／感情ing him 本人自身で
'To be able to walk through a 近隣 like this and see what was done to the people, to still be able to walk into one of these homes and smell the death still, a month later, is something that I think the American people need to know,' he said
Christie, the 2024 race´s most 声の critic of former 大統領，／社長, Donald Trump, has cast himself as the only 共和国の／共和党の willing to 直接／まっすぐに take him on. Trump has not visited イスラエル during the 現在の （選挙などの）運動をする cycle, though 大統領 Joe Biden has.
The 共和国の／共和党の 候補者s have all lined up behind イスラエル, even as the country comes under growing international 圧力 to 停止（させる） or 規模 支援する an 不快な／攻撃 in the Gaza （土地などの）細長い一片 in which more than 11,000 Palestinians, two-thirds of them women and minors, have been killed, によれば the Health 省 in Hamas-run Gaza, which does not differentiate?between 非軍事の and 交戦的な deaths.?
About 2,700 people have been 報告（する）／憶測d 行方不明の and are thought to be 罠にかける or dead under the がれき.
Days after he 発表するd his 意図 to make the visit - すなわち to speak to families of the people taken 人質 to get a better understanding of some of the sticking point of the 衝突 - he 空気／公表するd 意図 to stand with イスラエル during whatever may come?
An Israeli 兵士 makes a call during a visit by Christie to Kibbutz Kfar Azza, 近づく the イスラエル-Gaza 国境, the 場所／位置 of an Oct. 7 大虐殺 by Hamas, Sunday
A home destroyed at Kibbutz Kfar Azza, nea r the イスラエル-Gaza 国境, the 場所／位置 of an Oct. 7 大虐殺 by Hamas, seen during a visit by Christie
An Israeli 兵士 stands guard along Kibbutz Kfar Azza, 近づく the イスラエル-Gaza 国境, the 場所／位置 of an Oct. 7 大虐殺 by Hamas
Christie, 一方／合間 賞賛するd the way that Biden has 扱うd relations with イスラエル during 戦時.?
As 普及した 抗議するs of イスラエル´s 砲撃 of Gaza in major cities like New York and Los Angeles attract thousands, the Biden 行政 has sought to 増加する 人道的な 援助（する） into Gaza while 支援 the Israeli war 成果／努力 by moving US 軍隊／機動隊s and 弁護 systems into the 地域.?
Biden has 大部分は ducked calls to 圧力 イスラエル into a 停戦.
Christie said that he thought 抗議する人s calling for a 停戦 did not 代表する the 広大な 大多数 of Americans.
'I don´t think it´s the 役割 of the 部隊d 明言する／公表するs to 教える the 明言する／公表する of イスラエル on how to 供給する safety and 安全 for its people,' he said. 'I think we can give advice, as friends give advice in 私的な. But 公然と, my 見解（をとる） is that we need to stand with イスラエル.'
The 軍の has 審査するd the film to international 圧力（をかける） and 多重の world leaders who have visited イスラエル since the start of the war.
Christie, 権利, makes 発言／述べるs at the end of a visit to Kibbutz Kfar Azza, 近づく the イスラエル-Gaza 国境, the 場所／位置 of an October 7 大虐殺 by Hamas, during which he 表明するd horror at the 影響 of the attacks
Christie also 賞賛するd the way that Biden has 扱うd relations with イスラエル during 戦時, にもかかわらず the 大統領，／社長's hesitance?to 圧力 イスラエル into a 停戦
Christie, left, visits Kibbutz Kfar Azza, 近づく the イスラエル-Gaza 国境, the 場所／位置 of an Oct. 7 大虐殺 by Hamas, as volunteers with ZAKA 緊急 service stand by
'I want the people of イスラエル to know that there are hundreds of millions of Americans who stand with them, who understand the 残虐（行為）s that were committed, and why in the 未来 we need to stand 絶対 shoulder to shoulder with イスラエル,' Christie said Sunday
'I want the people of イスラエル to know that there are hundreds of millions of Americans who stand with them, who understand the 残虐（行為）s that were committed, and why in the 未来 we need to stand 絶対 shoulder to shoulder with イスラエル,' Christie said.
Christie has positioned himself as someone who if elected would defend U.S. 利益／興味s and 僕主主義 abroad. He has 以前 visited ウクライナ共和国 to 会合，会う with 大統領 Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
The trip 示すs his second trip to a warring country since the start of his 大統領の 企て，努力，提案, after a visit to ウクライナ共和国 in August.
By far the most strident critic of Trump in the 共和国の／共和党の field, Christie has 終始一貫して been in the low 選び出す／独身 digits in 国家の 投票s, far behind the former 大統領，／社長.< /p>
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