Rep.-elect Adam Hamawy, D-N.J., repeatedly declined to describe Iran as an adversary or Israel as an ally during an interview on CNN’s “The Situation Room” Tuesday. Co-host Pamela Brown pressed him across several exchanges, and Hamawy answered by blaming the United States and Israel for the war.

Hamawy has called for pulling all U.S. military funding from Israel. The exchange came in the same week he was sworn in with a new Democratic class that includes several members who have taken similar positions toward Israel.

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“Well, now, what I see is that we were pushed into this war by Israel,” Hamawy said. “It’s not helping Americans. Americans didn’t ask for it. It’s illegal and immoral. And at this point, I think the U.S. and the Iranians want this war to end.”

“Do you see Iran as the adversary?” Brown asked.

“I see that we pushed them into a fight. And so, I think we both have to step back and say, is this helping either one of us?” Hamawy answered.

Brown did not let the question drop. She reminded Hamawy that Iranians have chanted “Death to America,” and he replied that “we’ve been saying ‘Death to Iran’ for decades as well.” When Brown said the Iranian regime has killed many Americans, Hamawy responded, “And we’ve killed a lot of them as well.” He later called the Iranian government a “dictatorship” and “authoritarian,” but suggested American actions have made the country more radical, and he argued for diplomacy over what he called the “blame game.”

His answers echoed Michigan Sen.-elect Abdul El-Sayed, who in October refused to say whether Israel or Iran posed the greater threat to America, saying “both of them have proven dangerous in their own way.”

Hamawy’s election drew scrutiny over his prior volunteer work with the Benevolence International Foundation, a Chicago-based charity federal authorities later identified as providing financial and logistical support to al-Qaeda. He was also scrutinized over his past relationship with Sheikh Omar Abdel-Rahman, the “Blind Sheikh,” whom he accompanied on a 1991 trip. The source does not report any charges against Hamawy, and Fox News Digital did not immediately hear back from his team. Roz Rothstein, co-founder and CEO of StandWithUs, told Fox News Digital that Hamawy refused to acknowledge “a basic factual and moral reality,” adding that officials who do not understand Iran’s regime “should have no role in our country’s foreign policy decisions.”

Proverbs 17:15 says, “He who justifies the wicked and he who condemns the righteous are both alike an abomination to the LORD.” Moral clarity about tyranny is not an optional virtue for those who wield power. Pray that Adam Hamawy would reconsider whom he is defending. Pray for wisdom for every member of the new Congress as they vote on war powers and military assistance to Israel, and for protection over American service members placed in harm’s way by these debates. Pray for the church in Iran, which pays the highest price for the regime’s cruelty.

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(Excerpt from Fox News. Photo Credit: Sonia Sevilla – Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=27733127).