Benjamin Netanyahu
“Our hearts are always with the hostages and their families,” said the premier.
There will come a time to have such conversations, the former IDF chief said.
Visiting U.S. lawmakers present the PM with a declaration in support of Israel’s right to defend itself against Hamas terrorism.
A Biden administration official confirmed a possible exchange was in the works.
Tracking with other polling data, Rasmussen found that voters under 40 were nearly three times as likely to sympathize with Palestinians as older groups.
“I will not agree to concede security control under any circumstances,” said the Israeli premier.
U.S. President Joe Biden spoke to reporters above Air Force One prior to departing from Joint Base Andrews in Maryland.
The premier laid out three main goals in the area: Increasing counterterror activities, preventing the formation of a second front and cracking down on Jewish extremists.
In a parliamentary address, Naledi Pandor accused Israel of “the murder of children and women” and called for the ICC to issue an arrest warrant for Israeli decision makers.
“I did ask him for a pause. He passed,” the US president said.
“We have destroyed dozens of bases, headquarters, tunnels and Hamas training facilities,” said the Israeli premier.
“When we don’t have that security responsibility, what we have is the eruption of Hamas terror on a scale that we couldn’t imagine.”
