Representative Randy Fein calls for nuclear bombing of Gaza, as was done to Japan after the shooting in Washington.

Rep. Randy Fein (R-FL) suggested that Gaza should be nuked like Japan during World War II, in response to the shooting in Washington, D.C., that killed two Israeli embassy employees.

In an interview on Fox News, the congressman was asked whether the shooting would change the course of the Israeli offensive on Gaza. Fine replied, "Well, I think it underscores the importance of the only end to the conflict being the complete and total surrender of those who support Islamic terrorism."

Fine added, "In World War II, we didn't negotiate surrender with the Nazis, and we didn't negotiate surrender with the Japanese. We nuclearized the Japanese twice to obtain unconditional surrender, and it should be the same here."

Representative Fine, who recently won a special election for Mike Waltz's seat in the House of Representatives, is a Jewish American who strongly supports Israel and has a history of calling for mass violence against Palestinians. He celebrated the Israeli military's killing of Aysnur Izi Ece, a 26-year-old Turkish-American citizen, who was shot dead in the West Bank, calling her a "Muslim terrorist" even though she was unarmed.

Fine also said in the interview on Thursday that "Palestinianism is violence" and that "Palestinianism" is evil.

Wednesday night's shooting killed a young couple, Yaron Leshinsky, an Israeli citizen, and Sarah Milgrim, an American woman, as they left a Young Diplomats event at the Jewish Museum in Washington, D.C. The suspect is not Palestinian and has been identified as Elias Rodriguez, 31, of Chicago. A purported manifesto he wrote cites Gaza as his motivation for the attack, and Rodriguez was seen chanting "Free Palestine" during his arrest. The Leshinsky and Milgrim murders were not the first Gaza-related killings in the United States. In October 2023, just weeks after a Hamas attack on southern Israel, six-year-old Palestinian-American boy Wadie Al-Fayoumi was stabbed in Illinois by his landlord, 73-year-old Joseph Czuba, who was recently sentenced to 53 years in prison.