Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) blamed President Joe Biden and the Democratic Party for the recent terrorist attacks in Israel, saying that the administration’s loosening of sanctions and recent unfreezing of Iranian assets helped finance the attack.

The remarks come as more than 1,000 Israelis were murdered and more than 2,600+ were injured in the attack on Saturday.

“I’ll tell you what is infuriating about this. This was paid for by Joe Biden and the Democrats,” Cruz said on an episode of his “Verdict” podcast with co-host Ben Ferguson.

“This is something that the corporate media desperately wants to avoid. But let’s be clear,” Cruz said. “This attack, this massacre, this horrific assault on Israel, was funded by Iran. Hamas and Hezbollah are Iranian proxies. They work for Iran. They work under the direction of Iran. They are funded by Iran.”

Recent reports from The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal have said that Iran was behind the attacks, helping finance and plan the operation.

Cruz mentioned the $6 billion in Iranian assets that the administration unfroze in exchange for five U.S. citizens being let out of wrongful detainment in Iran.

“At $6 billion, that’s $1.2 billion per American,” Cruz said. “That set a bounty on Americans of over a billion dollars. That means Americans in the future will be taken hostage — but the $6 billion is just a fraction of the cash that Joe Biden has flooded into Iran. Because a few weeks before the $6 billion, the Biden administration allowed $10 billion from Iraq to flow into Iran. That brings it up to $16 billion in cash that directly flowed into Iran.”

Cruz then noted that the $16 billion paled in comparison to the revenues that the Iranians have obtained from oil ever since the Biden administration loosened sanctions, saying that Iran has been selling more than two million barrels of oil per day.

“Over the last two and a half years, the Biden administration is responsible for roughly $50 billion,” Cruz continued. “So when you are watching Israelis murdered, when you’re watching infants murdered, when you are watching women and girls raped, when you’re watching hundreds of Israelis taken hostage, know that Joe Biden and this White House funded it. They funded it for idiotic political reasons. And now they’re desperately trying to backtrack, saying, ‘No, no, no, we didn’t pay for these atrocities.’ They absolutely did.”

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Sen. Ted Cruz: "This horrific assault on Israel was funded by Iran. Hamas and Hezbollah are Iranian proxies. They work for Iran. They work under the direction of Iran. … These attacks were planned, were signed off on by the Iranian government. And in the last two and a half… pic.twitter.com/dog6cOleJA

— Conservative War Machine (@WarMachineRR) October 10, 2023

Chapters of far-left Black Lives Matter expressed support this week for Palestinians murdering Jews just days after Hamas terrorists launched the largest terror attacks Israel has ever encountered, murdering more than 1,000 Israelis and injuring 2,600+ more.

The attacks on Saturday, which drew strong international condemnation from many, also resulted in the deaths of at least 14 Americans and some U.S. citizens being taken hostage.

“When a people have been subject to decades of apartheid and unimaginable violence, their resistance must not be condemned, but understood as a desperate act of self-defense,” Black Lives Matter Grassroots posted on X.

The organization said that it stood “in solidarity with our Palestinian family who are currently resisting 57 years of settler colonialism and apartheid.”

The group repeated the false claim that Gaza was “the world’s largest open air prison” and compared their alleged struggles to the alleged struggles of the Palestinian people.

“We, too, understand what it means to be surveilled, dehumanized, property seized, families separated, our people criminalized and slaughtered with impunity, locked up in droves, and when we resist they call us terrorists,” they claimed. “We, too, dream of a world where our people may live freely on decolonized land. May the borders, checkpoints, prisons, police and watchlists that terrorize our communities crumble and may the world we build from their ashes honor those who have fallen in struggle.”

“For lasting peace to come, the entire apartheid system must be dismantled. The war on the Palestinian people must cease,” the statement concluded. “We call on the United States government to immediately stop funding war and redirect the $4 billion in annual spending from the Israeli military to repair the damage caused by U.S.-backed wars, military air strikes, coups, and destabilizing interventions against oppressed people around the world.”

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Black Lives Matter Grassroots
Statement in #Solidarity with the People of #Palestine. pic.twitter.com/BgsQBAZdis

— BLM Grassroots (@blmgrassroots) October 10, 2023

Black Lives Matter Chicago appeared to go even one step further, posting a photo showing a paratrooper with a Palestinian flag that stated: “I stand with Palestine.”

The photo is significant because many of the Hamas terrorists who attacked Israel on Saturday crossed the border with parachutes.

Utterly sickening from Black Lives Matter in Chicago.

And they have used an image of a paraglider like the ones who swooped into an Israeli music festival and murdered, raped, mutilated, and paraded beaten civilians back to Gaza. pic.twitter.com/76OAEyNfr5

— Aviva Klompas (@AvivaKlompas) October 10, 2023