The Briefing Room
General Category => Politics/Government => Topic started by: mystery-ak on April 05, 2024, 01:20:38 pm
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White House: ‘Difficult to Say’ How Close Israel Is to Being Like Hamas
Ian Hanchett 4 Apr 2024
On Thursday’s broadcast of CNN’s “Situation Room,” White House National Security Communications Adviser John Kirby stated that while you can’t equate Israel’s actions to Hamas launching the October 7 attack, “it’s difficult to say” how close Israel is to becoming indistinguishable from Hamas.
Host Wolf Blitzer asked, “You heard Secretary Blinken earlier today, suggest — he warned that there’s a real risk the way Israel is waging its war in Gaza right now is making it indistinguishable from Hamas. How close is Israel to that point?”
Kirby responded, “Well, it’s difficult to say on a scale like that. We have to remember, Hamas — there was a ceasefire in place on the 6th of October. Hamas broke it. Mr. Sinwar chose to start this war. Mr. Sinwar and the Hamas fighters choose to bury themselves under hospitals and civilian infrastructure, use the innocent people of Gaza as human shields. They are increasingly placing innocent Palestinians at greater risk as well. I think we can’t equate what they did on the 7th of October to the kinds of operations that Israel is conducting. That said, and we’ve been clear about this too, it’s not just the right and responsibility of the IDF to go after Hamas, it’s the way they do it that matters, and it’s the way they’ve been doing it in recent weeks and months that [has] caused increasing frustration by us in terms of the civilian casualties, the damage to civilian infrastructure, and now, the potential impact on humanitarian organizations being fearful of moving into Gaza.”
https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2024/04/04/white-house-difficult-to-say-how-close-israel-is-to-being-like-hamas/
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White House: ‘Difficult to Say’ How Close Israel Is to Being Like Hamas
Kirby responded, “Well, it’s difficult to say on a scale like that. We have to remember, Hamas — there was a ceasefire in place on the 6th of October. Hamas broke it. Mr. Sinwar chose to start this war. Mr. Sinwar and the Hamas fighters choose to bury themselves under hospitals and civilian infrastructure, use the innocent people of Gaza as human shields. They are increasingly placing innocent Palestinians at greater risk as well. I think we can’t equate what they did on the 7th of October to the kinds of operations that Israel is conducting. That said, and we’ve been clear about this too, it’s not just the right and responsibility of the IDF to go after Hamas, it’s the way they do it that matters, and it’s the way they’ve been doing it in recent weeks and months that [has] caused increasing frustration by us in terms of the civilian casualties, the damage to civilian infrastructure, and now, the potential impact on humanitarian organizations being fearful of moving into Gaza.”
https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2024/04/04/white-house-difficult-to-say-how-close-israel-is-to-being-like-hamas/
I'm not a Kirby fan, but damn that is a misleading headline if you read the actual article. The language in bold contradicts the headline's insinuation that Kirby wouldn't/couldn't distinguish between the two.
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So this is a GOOD thing, right? If Israel is becoming like Hamas then shouldn't Blinken pressure Hamas for an 'immediate ceasefire'? If Israel is like Hamas then shouldn't the American Leftist Democrats support and protest in favor of Israel?
I want to see a bridge shut down for Israel (who apparently is now the same as Hamas). If Israel is 'like Hamas' then doesn't that mean that Israel is the designated 'victim'? And Hamas is now the aggressor?
How does Hamas being Hamas make Hamas the good guys, but Israel behaving like Hamas makes Israel the bad guy? The more Israel becomes 'like Hamas', the more the American Left and the American media should LOVE Israel.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZbSo5c4YUU
Israel is 'just like Hamas'.
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Somewhere between 10 galaxies and 10 separate universes apart.
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Iran and Hamas are the aggressors.
Israel's mistake is letting Netanyahu drag out the conflict so he can stay in power and avoid criminal prosecution for corruption.
Invade / infiltrate Rafa already, and get it over with.
Netanyahu needs to go because he is incompetent on security matters.
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Israeli soldiers do not make it a practice to rape, torture, mutilate and slaughter women and children in Gaza. Maybe Kirby should watch the videos from Oct. 7, 2023.
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Israeli soldiers do not make it a practice to rape, torture, mutilate and slaughter women and children in Gaza. Maybe Kirby should watch the videos from Oct. 7, 2023.
I'm just going to point out again that Kirby did not equate their actions. In fact, he expressly did the opposite.
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Six million degrees of separation...
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I want the entire GAZA strip destroyed...but that's just me. :bolt:
If you kill them, they can never hurt you again.