White House says ‘no question that Hamas is evil’

Jacob Magid is The Times of Israel's US bureau chief

White House National Security Council spokesman John Kirby speaks during a daily news briefing at the White House on February 15, 2024, in Washington. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images/AFP)
White House National Security Council spokesman John Kirby speaks during a daily news briefing at the White House on February 15, 2024, in Washington. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images/AFP)

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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