Sen. John Fetterman (D-Penn.) called some of his colleaguesā€™ quickness to blame Israel for the hospital blast in Gaza ā€œdisturbingā€ in a statement Wednesday.

ā€œItā€™s truly disturbing that Members of Congress rushed to blame Israel for the hospital tragedy in Gaza,ā€ Fetterman said in a post on X, formerly Twitter.

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    And, ah, who were the Palistinians before Islam?

    Gaza was one of the Philistine city-statesā€¦ you know. Early on, Canaanites- The people that Israelites tried genocide to ā€œcome into the promised landā€ā€¦ and who Solomon and David were at war.

    The area has a very long, very ancient historyā€¦ and that history is part of how we got to the partition plan and the Nakba and all that.

    I donā€™t have any real answers for solving the violence. I truly wish I did.

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      Archaeology links the Philistines to the Mycenaean civilization due to similarities in their crafting. Thereā€™s a possibility the Philistines were of the Sea Peoples - Southern European invaders of Egypt, Canaan and Turkey - in the late Bronze Age.