Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gifted John Fetterman an uncommon current Wednesday: a silver-plated beeper.
What, would possibly you ask, would the Democrat Pennsylvania senator need or want with a beeper? Properly, it’s not precisely to be used, it’s meant as a logo for the spy movie-worthy offensive taken by the Israeli authorities the place they fooled Hezbollah terrorists into utilizing pagers to speak—with out them realizing that they have been really manufactured by their sworn enemies and have been rigged to blow up.
Which they did, to spectacular impact.
Fetterman, who’s been one of many few Democrats to staunchly help the Jewish state as they battle the barbaric evils of Hamas and Hezbollah, was thrilled:
🚨THIS IS AWESOME! WATCH: PM Netanyahu provides @SenFettermanPA a SILVER PAGER is a present thanking him for his robust help for the State of Israel. Senator Fetterman is visiting Israel. pic.twitter.com/oUJyLWLfS4
— Raylan Givens (@JewishWarrior13) March 19, 2025
Netanyahu defined the significance:
“It is a silver-plated beeper. The actual beeper is like one-tenth the burden,” Netanyahu mentioned Wednesday after handing the symbolic machine to the senator. “It’s nothing, nevertheless it adjustments historical past.”
Fetterman’s response: “I adore it.”
Fetterman, who has been a vocal supporter of Israel in its battle in opposition to the Palestinian militant group Hamas, then advised Netanyahu that, “When that story broke, I used to be like, ‘Oh I adore it. I adore it,’ and now it’s like, thanks for this.”
“Thanks,” the Pennsylvania Democrat added earlier than shaking the prime minister’s hand.
The present is a reference to Israel’s operation in September final 12 months when it detonated booby-trapped pagers in an assault to take out Hezbollah, a U.S.-designated international terrorist group, in Lebanon.
Netanyahu and his spouse Sara met with Fetterman and his spouse Gisele on Wednesday on the prime minister’s workplace in Jerusalem. The journey was Fetterman’s second go to to Israel since changing into a senator.
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After all, the present despatched the left into paroxysms of predictable outrage:
‘I can not consider this man as soon as conned progressives into campaigning for him and defending him,’ one X person mentioned of Fetterman. ‘Overlook professional Israel, he is professional Netanyahu, who simply massacred over 100 children to keep away from going to court docket for his trial. Sick stuff.’
‘This despicable ghoul is a US senator. What a joke!’ echoed one other.
‘OMG. To be this merciless and this cheesy all on the similar time,’ one person penned.
One other wrote: ‘Who does not take pleasure in a present from a legal thug assassin?’
‘Happy with their terrorism. Sickos of the very best diploma,’ mentioned one other.
One added: ‘Completely no method that is actual… proper???’
‘Why is the senator from Pennsylvania hanging out in Israel? And who’s paying for it?’ one other requested.
As RedState’s Ward Clark reported in February, Netanyahu additionally gifted President Trump a commemorative beeper—however that one was gold-plated:
Israel gained an infinite quantity of status of their battle with Hamas and Hezbollah with final 12 months’s loaded pager/walkie-talkie operation, which had the goblins their private electronics and seeing grenades. Israel managed to take away a good variety of goblins from the sport with this advanced and impeccably executed operation, and on his go to to the White Home on Tuesday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gifted President Trump with a gold-plated pager to commemorate the occasion. (This pager was not constructed to blow up.)
That, of us, is the way you rely coup within the trendy period.
Throughout their assembly, Netanyahu gifted Trump a golden and an everyday pager.
Trump reacted: “That operation in opposition to Hezbollah was unimaginable.”
😂😂😂 pic.twitter.com/MnvC5vc8jl
— Open Supply Intel (@Osint613) February 5, 2025
Fetterman is incorrect on (too) many issues, however he’s one of many few almost-sane Democrats left in Congress. His help of Israel of their existential struggle has been necessary, and though he votes incorrect on most topics (together with his indefensible “nay” on the “Safety of Ladies and Women in Sports activities Act”), he however deserves this silver-plated beeper.
A: Hamas doesn’t need peace.
I unapologetically, 100% stand with Israel, and demand the discharge of all remaining hostages.
Sending this from Israel. 🇮🇱 pic.twitter.com/JzP3SvFLK5
— U.S. Senator John Fetterman (@SenFettermanPA) March 18, 2025
The beeper is yet another reminder: Oh, what a genius operation that was!