The Prime Minister of Israel Benjamin Netanyahu gifted Senator John Fetterman a silver-plated beeper during a visit to the P.M’s office in Jerusalem this week when he reiterated his support for the Jewish state. Fetterman repeatedly has voiced support for Israel and has demanded that Hamas return all the hostages the terror group took on Oct. 7, 2023. “Hamas does not want peace. I unapologetically, 100% stand with Israel, and demand the release of all remaining hostages,” he wrote Tuesday on X. “Sending this from Israel.” During an exchange of gifts, the senator from Pennsylvania gave Netanyahu a framed news article about an effort to memorialize Netanyahu’s brother, the fallen Israeli soldier Yoni Netanyahu, in Philadelphia, where Netanyahu lived as a teenager, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency reported. The fallen prime minister’s brother is considered a hero in Israel after he was killed in the 1976 Israeli raid in Entebbe, Uganda during the rescue of 102 hostages taken by German and Palestinian terrorists in a plane hijacking. Netanyahu then reciprocated with his gift. “What can I give a man who has everything? How about giving him a beeper?” Netanyahu said. “This is a silver-plated beeper. The real beeper is, like, one-tenth the weight. It’s nothing, but it changes history.” The beeper references Israel’s September 2024 operation in which it detonated pagers used by members of Hezbollah in Lebanon, killings dozens of people. A close-up of the silver pager that the Prime Minister gave to Senator Fetterman “To Senator Fetterman” The man who goes against the flow. “Benjamin Netanyahu.” “When that story broke, I was like, ‘Oh, I love it, I love it.’ And now, it’s like, thank you for this,” Fetterman responded.
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