John Fetterman Warns Israel Is 'Losing Generations' Of Democrats Due To Middle East Wars, Vows To Maintain His Support

Democratic Sen. John Fetterman warned that Israel is "losing generations" of the party members due to its prosecution of different wars in the Middle East, but vowed to maintain his support for the country.

Speaking on Fox News, Fetterman highlighted that he is the "only Democrat that is fully supportive of what the president has done with" Operation Epic Fury, the name of the operation that catalyzed the war in Iran.

He went on to say that the stance has "isolated" him in the party, which is going through a decline in its support of Israel.

"They are the only nation in the region that has the kind of values that we as Democrats want to live under. I don't follow the polls, you know? I'm going to follow the moral clarity of Israel. I'll be the one Democrat to celebrate continuing to eliminate leadership who just weeks ago executed thousands and thousands of their own young people there," Fetterman added.

Fetterman has been a vocal supporter of the war and has often criticized fellow Democrats for not joining him. Last week he said that the operation amounts to "us destroying the Nazi regime and Hitler before they could've even begun."

Speaking to Jewish Insider, Fetterman recalled that "every single Democratic presidential candidate or Democratic president all agreed, we can never allow Iran to acquire a nuclear bomb."

"Everyone has run the gamut: sanctions, treaties, proxies, other kinds of negotiations. It never worked," Fetterman added, noting that the outcome has been "nine hundred pounds of just pure, weapons-grade uranium."

He went on to wonder why Democrats "can't just acknowledge" that the strikes are a "profound development" but noted that what the base wants to "condemn and criticize."

Elsewhere in the interview, Fetterman condemned former Vice President Kamala Harris and California Gov. Gavin Newsom for their words about the future of the relationship between Israel and the U.S. "I expect at the end that our party is going to continue to back away from the moral clarity of Israel. If you are describing Israel as an apartheid state, or you have people in leadership [doing so], that's profoundly disappointing but unsurprising," Fetterman said, in reference to remarks by Newsom, who described Israel as such.