Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and US Secretary of State held a joint press conference early Thursday afternoon from Tel Aviv.
Blinken landed in Israel on Thursday morning on a solidarity visit to the Jewish state.
Netanyahu spoke first, thanking Blinken, President Biden, and the American people for “your incredible support for Israel in our war against the barbarians of Hamas.”
Netanyahu then briefly switched to Hebrew before switching back to English: ““Hamas has shown itself to be an enemy of civilization. The massacring of young people at an outdoor music festival, the butchering of entire families, the murder of parents in front of their children and the murder of children in front of their parents. The burning of people alive. The beheadings. The kidnappings – of a young boy, not only kidnapped – molested, hurt, attacked – and the sickening display of the celebration and glorification of this evil.”
“President Biden was absolutely correct in calling this sheer evil,” Netanyahu continues. “Hamas is ISIS, and just as ISIS was crushed, so too should Hamas be crushed. And Hamas should be treated exactly as ISIS was treated. They should be spit out from the community of nations. No leader should meet them. No country should harbor them. And those that do should be sanctioned.”
Blinken began by saying, “I come before you not only as the United States Secretary of State but also as a Jew.”
“I also come before you as a husband and father of young children…it’s impossible for me to look at the photos of the families killed, such as the mother, father and three small children murdered as they sheltered in their home..and not think of my own children.”
“This was just one of Hamas’ countless acts of terror in a litany of brutality and inhumanity that brings to mind the worst of ISIS. Babies slaughtered, bodies desecrated, young people burned alive, women raped, parents executed in front of their children, children in front of their parents. How do we even understand this, digest this?”
Blinked also said that at least 25 US citizens were murdered by Hamas along with the citizens of 35 other countries.
Watch their full remarks below:
(YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)
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Blinken clearly doesn’t get it. The reason Hamas still exists is because the Israelis never finished the job out of fear of hurting civilians, civilians that support and celebrate Hamas’ barbarism.
Blinken was born a jew, married a gentile and that explains all….RIG
HAMAS exists because Israel refuses to kill ALL HAMAS SUPPORTERS and then goes back and says ceasefire, weak “leaders” caused this crisis.
@tzedikis
Each and every one of you comments are 100% hate. Maybe you should convert to Islam?
From Ynet, today:
“Charred bodies set on fire by the terrorists, the Hamas terrorists are being transported in a van with the corpses of women while sitting on them, photos of dozens of corpses lying on the ground after the inferno at the nature party, Hamas terrorists shooting dogs and setting fire to residents’ homes In..