The Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Natanyahu has vowed that Hamas will be treated as ISIS, and just as ISIS was crushed, so too will Hamas be crushed.
Natanyahu made the vow when hosting the United States Secretary of State, Antony Blinken who is in Israel on a solidarity visit over the Palestinian militant group Hamas attack on Saturday that left at least 900 dead in Israel,
According to him, “Mr. Secretary, your visit is another tangible example of America’s unequivocal support for Israel. Hamas has shown itself to be an enemy of civilization.
“The massacring of young people in an outdoor music festival; the butchering of entire families; the murder of parents in front of their children and the murder of children in front of their parents.
“The burning of people alive; the beheadings; the kidnappings – of a young boy, not only kidnapped, molested, hurt, attacked; and the sickening display of celebrating these horrors, the celebration and glorification of evil.
“And Hamas should be treated exactly the way ISIS was treated. They should be spit out from the community of nations. No leader should meet them. No country should harbor them. And those that do should be sanctioned”, he said.
United States Secretary of State while speaking said he understand on a personal level the harrowing echoes that Hamas’s massacres carry for Israeli Jews indeed, for Jews everywhere.
He said as a husband and father of young children. It’s impossible for him to look at the photos of families killed such as the mother, father, and three small children murdered as they sheltered in their home in Kibbutz Nir Oz and not think of his own children.
Blinken added this was just one of Hamas’s countless acts of terror – in a litany of brutality and inhumanity that, yes, brings to mind the worst of ISIS. “Babies slaughtered.
“Bodies desecrated. Young people burned alive. Women raped. Parents executed in front of their children, children in front of their parents. How are we even to understand this, to digest this? The Secretary said.
Blinken confirmed that the US had supplied ammunition, interceptors to replenish Israel’s Iron Dome, alongside other defense materiel adding that the first shipments of military support have already arrived in Israel, and promised more is on the way.
He said as Israel’s defense needs evolve, vowed to work with Congress to make sure that they’re met. “And I can tell you there is overwhelming bipartisan support in our Congress for Israel’s security.
The Secretary reaffirmed the crystal-clear warning that President, Joe Biden issued yesterday to any adversary state or non-state thinking of taking advantage of the current crisis to attack Israel: “Don’t. The United States has Israel’s back.
“We’ve deployed the world’s largest aircraft carrier to the Eastern Mediterranean. We’ve bolstered the presence of U.S. fighter aircraft in the region. We’re providing other support as well.
“We continue working closely with Israel to secure the release of the men, women, children, elderly people taken hostage by Hamas, pursuing intensive diplomacy throughout the region to prevent the conflict from spreading – and I’ll be doing that over the course of my trip in the coming days.
“Too often in the past, leaders have equivocated in the face of terrorist attacks against Israel and its people. That’s why we’ve been adamant with all countries in the wake of these attacks: There is no excuse, there is no justification for these atrocities”, US Blinken said.
