Joe Biden
“Throughout our careers, we often disagreed. And often strongly,” the U.S. president said, hours after U.S. Secretary of State Blinken released a much heftier statement.
The office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu released the list of the 16 hostages who returned to Israel in the most recent round of exchanges with Palestinian prisoners.
The GOP presidential candidate said “Hamas is trying to wipe Israel off the map. And they’re doing so with Iranian, North Korean and Russian assistance.”
Earlier in the day, the U.S. president had told a reporter that the end will be “Hamas is completely—how can I say it—no longer in control of any portion of Gaza.”
The U.S. president also called for a two-state solution as the only path forward to peace and more humanitarian aid for Palestinians in remarks about the release of 14 Israeli and three Thai hostages on Nov. 26.
Speaking on Friday from Nantucket, Mass., the U.S. president added that “Hamas doesn’t give a damn” about Palestinians and “I only trust Hamas to respond to pressure.”
The U.S. president also spoke with Egypt’s head of state about the impending release of Israelis from Gaza.
“It actually accused Israel of carrying out that massacre. This is a complete reversal of truth,” said the Israeli prime minister.
In a Washington Post op-ed, the U.S. president says the goal “should not be simply to stop the war for today—it should be to end the war forever.”
The terrorist group that rules the Gaza Strip never anticipated that Israel would launch an all-out undertaking to destroy it.
“The political disagreement will not go away” between Washington and Jerusalem, Shoshana Bryen, senior director of the Jewish Policy Center, told JNS.
The US president said that it was “established” that Hamas uses Al Shifa Hospital and other medical centers for its terror operations.
