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Thursday, February 22, 2024
White House says ‘no question that Hamas is evil’
Jacob Magid is The Times of Israel's US bureau chief
Asked whether the war between Israel and Hamas is a battle between good and evil, White House National Security Council spokesman John Kirby responds that “there’s no question that Hamas is evil.”
“I don’t even think that that’s up for debate,” he says during a press briefing, pointing to Hamas’s original and updated charter.
“You can’t read that manifesto and not think that this is a terror organization with truly genocidal inclinations against Israel and the Israeli people. What they did on the seventh of October — you cannot look at anything from that day and not come away believing that this group is evil,” Kirby adds, while avoiding characterizing Israel as “good” or commenting on the Jewish state’s conduct at all.
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