Republican Sen. Tuberville Warns Against ‘Picking Sides in the Middle East’ in Jaw-Dropping Interview

Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) is under fire for telling an interviewer that “when you start picking sides in the Middle East, it can get really messy very quick” amid the violence in Israel spurred by Hamas.

America and the world have been consumed by the new violence that has erupted since Hamas launched an unprecedented coordinated terrorist assault on Israel Saturday morning that brought with it indescribable horrors that are still unfolding.

Among the sideline controversies to this issue have been controversial reactions and commentary from U.S. political figures, including Tuberville’s remarks to an interviewer for local Gray Television station WBRC in Birmingham this week:

I’m hoping that cooler heads prevail, they don’t go into Palestine [pronounces it “Pal-uh-STEEN”]. Hopefully they get the hostages back and people start cooperating.

But this has been really bad. Israel has the right to go because they they came in and they did some terrible things in their country.

But the problem is when you start picking sides in the Middle East, it could get really messy very quick.

The remarks were a departure from the statement Tuberville issued Saturday in the immediate wake of the attacks, at which time he wrote, “The Iran-backed terrorist attacks on Israel are completely unacceptable. Israel has every right to respond with force. The United States and Alabama stand firmly with Israel as they defend themselves against these barbaric terrorist attacks.”

Since the attacks, President Joe Biden has delivered four sets of public remarks about the violence, the most recent of which contained a warning to Iran:

I spoke with Prime Minister Netanyahu for — I don’t know how many times this — but this — again this morning. And already we’re — we’re surging additional military assistance to the Israeli Defense Force, including ammunition interceptors to replenish the Iron Dome. And we have moved a U.S. Carrier fleet to the Eastern Mediterranean, and we’re sending more fighter jets there into that region and made it clear — made it clear to the Iranians, “Be careful.”

Watch above via WBRC.