The White House is coming out swinging against an effort from independent Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders to block the Trump administration from selling certain weapons to Israel. President Donald Trump would veto two resolutions of disapproval offered by Sanders to block arms transfers to Israel,

Senator Jim Risch of Idaho, the Republican chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said in a speech opposing the resolutions that the terrorist group Hamas was to blame for the situation in Gaza. "It is in the interest of America and the world to see this terrorist group destroyed," he said.