US Muslim group asks Biden to urge Israel to deescalate tension

By Diyar Guldogan

WASHINGTON (AA) - The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) urged US President Joe Biden on Saturday to get Israel to deescalate tensions after an Iranian attack against Israel.

"Enough is enough. @POTUS (Joe Biden) must demand that the Israeli government both stop violating international law and deescalate this crisis that it started when it bombed an embassy,” it said in a statement.

That was after Iran began an airborne attack against Israel in retaliation for an April 1 airstrike on its diplomatic facility in the Syrian capital of Damascus.

CAIR said the Israeli government "did not hesitate to blow up" the Iranian Embassy complex in Syria.

"The other truth is that Benjamin Netanyahu’s desperate, failing government has obviously been trying to both maintain political power and distract from its genocide in Gaza by sparking a full-blown regional war with Iran," it added.

The group said that Americans do not support the "ongoing genocide in Gaza or the Israeli government’s transparent attempt to drag our nation into another doomed and unnecessary Middle East war."