Congressman rebuked for call to bomb Gaza ‘like Nagasaki and Hiroshima’

Civil rights group denounces congressmember Tim Walberg's calls to get it over quick' as a clear call to genocide'

Rather than provide humanitarian aid in Gaza, the US should ensure it is subjected to nuclear bombing the way that Nagasaki and Hiroshima" were at the end of the second world war, a Republican congressman said in shocking remarks that by all indications were recorded recently at a gathering with a relatively small group of his constituents.

The comments by US House representative Tim Walberg of Michigan drew condemnation from progressive political quarters, including from some who expressed disbelief that a former Christian pastor would advocate for what they called the genocide of Palestinians in Gaza.