Kentucky's current congressional delegation is reacting to the second anniversary of a Hamas attack on Israel that killed 1200 people, mostly civilians.

Since then, Israel's what?

Israel's retaliation on the Gaza Strip has killed more than 67,000 Palestinians, and what the United Nations and human rights groups called a genocide.

The U.S.

has been involved in everything from trying to broker a peace deal to providing military aid to Israel.

Our Jim Lefler has more on this report.

U.S.

Senator Mitch McConnell has championed unfettered military support for Israel like Ukraine.

McConnell says America's allies share our global interests and as independent nations must decide their own war tactics.

On this anniversary of the October 7th attack, McConnell writes, quote, Hamas has chosen every day to compound needless suffering.

Israel has sacrificed greatly in the pursuit of peace.

Congress has supported Israel, sending more than $20 billion in military aid to the country since the war started two years ago.

But progressive left and isolationist right hyperventilated about the specter of so-called forever war.

That speech was at the tail end of a tense time this summer, when Israel bombed Iranian military and nuclear facilities in June, Kentucky's other Republican senator pushed back on calls to escalate America's involvement in the Middle East.

I see more war and more carnage, and it's not the U.S.

job to be involved in this war.

Unlike McConnell, Paul has questioned Israel's government.

Just a month into the war.

Paul penned an op ed.

He wrote, quote, when I visited Israel in 2013, I suggested to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that incremental improvements in the lives of Palestinians might lessen their rage and propensity to commit violence.

However, the senator also wrote against U.S.

aid for Palestinians, and while he supported a Bernie Sanders resolution to report on Israel's human rights record, he has never supported Sanders weapons embargo in the Senate.

Republican Congressman Thomas Massie discussed such military aid on Theo Bond's podcast.

I wouldn't send them a dime.

Like that's my position.

I don't think whatever we're getting isn't worth it.

And, don't ask me to articulate the benefit, because I think the cost is greater than the benefit you get.

Everybody in Gaza is, at this point has to hate Israel, right?

And by extension, those bombs, when they see American politicians go over there and, like, sign the frickin bombs that are going to kill women and children.

Massie also called out lobbyists, advocate stating for such aid, namely the American Israel Public Affairs Committee or a pack.

Massie is Kentucky's only U.S.

senator, a representative not to take a PAC money, according to a tracker which opposes the lobbying group.

However, Kentucky's only Democratic congressman, Representative Morgan McGarvey, said this summer he would no longer take AP contributions, which he received in previous campaigns.

For Kentucky Edition, I'm June Leffler.

Thank you, June, for that.

As the U.S.

tries to broker a peace deal with Israel and Hamas, Senator Mitch McConnell writes today, it would provide an opportunity for Palestinians to turn a page on a dark chapter of terrorism and tyranny and chart a new course without Hamas, end quote.