Biden: Hamas unleashed pure unadulterated evil, evoked memories of Jewish genocide

In a live address, US President Joe Biden Biden says Hamas’s massacre of Israeli civilians in border towns was “sheer evil.”

“Good afternoon. You know there are moments in this life, I mean this literally, when a pure unadulterated evil is unleashed on this world. The people of Israel lived through one such moment this weekend [at] the bloody hands of the terrorist organization Hamas, a group whose stated purpose for being is to kill Jews.

“This was an act of sheer evil. More than 1,000 civilians slaughtered, just got slaughtered, in Israel. Among them,  at least 14 American citizens killed.

“Parents butchered using their bodies to try to protect their children. Stomach-turning reports of babies being killed; entire families slain; young people massacred while attending a musical festival to celebrate peace, celebrate peace; women raped, assaulted, paraded as trophies,” Biden says.

“Families hid their fear for hours and hours desperately trying to keep their children quiet, to avoid drawing attention. And thousands of wounded — alive but carrying with them the bullet holes and the shrapnel wounds and the memory of what they endured. You all know, these traumas never go away.

“There are still so many families desperately waiting to hear the fate of their loved ones. Not knowing if they are alive or dead or hostages. Infants in their mothers’ arms, grandparents in wheelchairs, Holocaust survivors abducted and held hostage. Hostages whom Hamas is now threatening to execute, in violation of every code of human morality.

“It’s abhorent.

“The brutality of Hamas, this bloodthirstiness, brings to mind the worst rampages of ISIS. This is terrorism. But sadly for the Jewish people, it’s not new. This attack has brought to the surface painful memories and the scars left by millennia of antisemitism and genocide of the Jewish people.”

“In this moment it must be crystal clear: We stand with Israel. We stand with Israel.”