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'Make compromises': Virginia senators react to Netanyahu's congressional address
(WSET) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke to Congress on Wednesday.
Senator Tim Kaine (D-Virginia) is one of over 70 politicians who missed Netanyahu’s address.
Sen. Kaine said he had a commitment on his calendar at William and Mary for months, so he couldn’t attend the prime minister’s address. He said he’s read coverage of the speech and has heard many of Netanyahu’s past addresses.
What I think people who attended the speech, and in my own reading of it, we’ve got to get a hostage deal and a ceasefire,” Sen. Kaine said. “That’s gonna be the best thing for Israel, the best thing for suffering Palestinians, the best thing for tension in the region. That has seemed tantalizingly close, but we’re not there yet, and I think that’s what the prime minister’s focus should be.”
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Kaine said a ceasefire is the only way the U.S. will be able to provide needed humanitarian aid to suffering Gazans and ultimately have a conversation of peace between the two states.
In response to the speech, thousands of protestors rallied on Capitol Hill opposing Netanyahu’s visit.
ABC13 asked the senator for his thoughts on that protest. He said they have the right to speak their minds, but violence isn’t acceptable.
I condemn any burning of the U.S. flag, any protest that gets into violence,” Sen. Kaine said. “I get why people feel strongly about it, I feel strongly about it, but you express that in a peaceful way, not in anything that suggests violence.”
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Senator Mark Warner (D-Virginia) attended Netanyahu’s address to Congress. He told reporters Thursday that he was deeply disappointed by one major aspect of the address. Sen. Warner said Netanyahu was impassioned and he agrees that Israel has the right to defend itself, but he said the prime minister didn’t acknowledge the suffering and death of more than 40,000 Palestinians.
Warner said there can’t be a release of hostages without a ceasefire in Gaza and he thinks the only way to get permanent peace is a two-state solution.
We’ve seen this hope for a ceasefire and those hostages released dashed time and again, and it’s gonna take both parties, both the Israeli government and the Hamas leadership, to make compromises,” Sen. Warner said.
Warner said he thinks those compromises will bring forward the hostage yield and an ultimate ceasefire.
Virginia
Parents at Virginia Christian school petition to remove church pastor over use of school’s tuition
Parents at Virginia Christian school feuding with church pastor
Parents with children at Christ Chapel Academy tell FOX 5 they have eight days to decide if they’re going to keep their children at the school amid protests over allegations that the school is raising tuition to help pull its partner church out of trouble.
PRINCE WILLIAM COUNTY, Va. – Parents with children at Christ Chapel Academy tell FOX 5 they have eight days to decide if they’re going to keep their children at the school. The deadline comes protests over allegations the school is raising tuition to help pull its partner church out of trouble.
There’s now a petition circulating online demanding the immediate resignation of Lead Pastor Bob Griffith at Christ Chapel Church. So far it has more than 200 signatures.
What we know:
Christ Chapel Academy is a private K-12 school with approximately 450 students.
Right now, tuition costs $12,000 a year and families reportedly have until July 22 to cancel their child’s enrollment without penalty.
What they’re saying:
Mom Jennifer Huber tells FOX 5 the church has lost a significant percent of its membership.
“The church has lost 30 percent of its membership under Pastor Bob, who’s been there the last four years,” Huber said. “It’s contracting. It’s having financial trouble. It’s never run in the black, it’s been in the red since he took over.
Huber and parent Verndell Robinson say in response the pastor is allegedly using money from the church’s school tuition to fund church activities.
“This one person is standing in our way of continuing our school the way it has been in this community,” mom Verndell Robinson said.
The other side:
FOX 5 reached out via phone and email to the church’s pastor and were awaiting a response.
FOX 5 reached out to Assemblies of God churches, which oversees the pastor and Christ Chapel Church. We have not yet heard back from them.
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COLONIAL BEACH, Va. — One person is hospitalized after a shooting at a dragstrip in Colonial Beach on Saturday night.
Deputies received a report of a shooting at Custom T’s Motorsports Park at 8 p.m., according to Capt. Chris Smith with the Westmoreland County Sheriff’s Office.
“When deputies arrived, they found one male victim suffering from a gunshot wound,” officials said.
The victim was taken to Mary Washington Hospital. There has been no word yet on his condition.
Smith said the investigation into the incident is ongoing.
Custom T’s Motorsports Park, formerly known as Colonial Beach Dragway, first opened as Longfield Drag Strip in 1963.
Colonial Beach, located on the Northern Neck along the Potomac River, is roughly 70 miles and a 1-hour 15-minute drive from Richmond along Interstate 95 north and Route 301.
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