Former NATO commander James Stavridis criticized pro-Palestinian protesters on Sunday, claiming they should not be the ones applauding.
“The young men and women who built that pier are the young Americans who should be applauded,” Stavridis told host John Catsimatidis in a Sunday interview on “The Cats Roundtable,” adding “Not these protesters on campuses.”
During the annual State of the Union address in March, President Biden announced that the US would build a floating dock in Gaza to help provide more humanitarian aid to civilians affected by the ongoing war between Israel and Hamas.
The temporary pier was completed in the region earlier this month. The U.S. military said the first shipment of aid was transported through the dock on Friday and more would follow.
Stavridis called it a “maritime miracle” and highlighted the United States’ efforts to deliver humanitarian aid to civilians, but also said it was “the bare minimum.”
In the weeks following Biden’s speech, students on college campuses across the country protested continued U.S. involvement in the war and called on their universities to divest from companies with ties to Israel.
There have been more than 400 protests across the country, from Ivy League schools to small colleges, and more than 2,000 people have been arrested for demonstrating.
Stavridis argued that if students want to do something for the Palestinians, “they should do it in a way that directly supports humanitarian aid, raises money for the Palestinians, supports Americans on the front lines of that good thing that America is doing for the crisis.” . .”
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