EXCLUSIVE: Rep. Mike Simpson on October 7th anniversary: "America stands with our ally Israel"

The veteran pro-Israel legislator explains why he stands with America's closest ally in the Middle East.

On the two year anniversary of the terrorist attacks of October 7th, 2023, Rep. Mike Simpson (R., Idaho) told the Washington Reporter that his position on the events is unequivocal.

“America stands with our ally, Israel, and we will never forget,” the veteran congressman told the Reporter.

The lawmaker also made it clear where he believes the blame squarely lies. “It’s been two years since Hamas launched a horrific terror attack on Israel,” Simpson added. “These terrorists beheaded babies, raped women, and kidnapped the elderly.”

For years — and especially in the immediate aftermath of October 7th itself — Simpson has voted to support America’s strongest ally in the Middle East.

At one critical juncture in Hamas’s war against Israel, for example, Simpson helped shepherd a bipartisan measure in the House, the Israel Security Assistance Support Act, into passage.

The measure came after President Joe Biden’s unprecedented move to, as Simpson put it at the time, “withhold critical arms shipments to Israel.”

Biden’s move, Simpson explained, “undermines our great ally, emboldens our enemies like Iran, Hamas, and Hezbollah, and jeopardizes our national security.”