A.G. Gancarski
Gov. Ron DeSantis offered a scathing denunciation of the “terrorist” Hamas group from an ice cream parlor near the Iowa-Nebraska border.
The 2024 presidential candidate said Israelis “have a responsibility to not just defend themselves but to use overwhelming force to wipe Hamas off the face of the earth.”
“They are killing elderly, they are killing children, they are raping women and doing it in ways that a lot of the media doesn’t want you to see because it is truly despicable,” he said an event held by the Never Back Down super PAC Monday in Le Mars, Iowa.
The Governor also predicted that “elites” and others would frame a narrative that was unfriendly to Israel’s inevitable defense of its national prerogatives.
“What’s going to be happening over the next days, weeks and months is you’re going to start seeing elites, you’re going to start seeing media, you’re going to start seeing maybe even the United Nations start to attack Israel,” DeSantis added.
“They’re going to blame Israel for what happened just because Israel is defending themselves and we cannot let that happen. We have to stand with them so that they do what they need to do to secure their country.”
The Governor also took issue with the Hamas position that they were fighting back against occupation from Israel, contending that it ended some years back, though he didn’t acknowledge the ongoing military blockades cited by critics as de facto occupation.
“Israel pulled out 15, 20 years ago for that,” DeSantis said. “They could have created a better life for themselves and tried to do anything.”
“What did they do? They created terrorist infrastructure. They’ve been arming. Iran has been funding. This has been happening for years and years,” DeSantis added.
The Governor also took issue with the claim Hamas wants a state, saying that’s “not what they want.”
“What they want to do is eradicate the Jewish state. They want to push the Jews to the sea and end the state of Israel. We’re not going to let that happen. That is not right. They have every right to exist as a Jewish state.”
8 comments
Dr. Franklin Waters
October 9, 2023 at 12:14 pm
Stay in your lane Rhonda.
Floridians can’t afford their rent, while you’re out there talking tough in Iowa.
You’re not going to be President, and that should be very clear by now, so get back to work on Florida issues. Nobody cares about your thoughts on foreign policy.
My Take
October 9, 2023 at 1:02 pm
What a prattling pandering idiot.
Tom
October 9, 2023 at 1:06 pm
They’re all playing the tough guy now that their money supply is likely to dry up. I’m sure Miriam Adelson will have better things to do with her money now than throw it away on a campaign that is unlikely to go anywhere.
My Take
October 9, 2023 at 1:11 pm
Here’s an idea for starting to weaken support fof Hamas’s violent struggle. Send Gaza some of those hundreds of thousands of jobs we “offshore” to Asia. Give the Arabs some local future life for their children. Some hope.
My Take
October 9, 2023 at 2:05 pm
Obliterating today’s GOP would do the world overall more good than oblìterating Hamas.
Impeach Biden
October 10, 2023 at 8:58 pm
Yup things have been rosy since Jan 2021. Let’s see fuel prices are much higher now. Of course inflation is rampant. Then there is the bungled Afghanistan withdrawal, Ukraine and now the Middle East. Of course let’s not forget the Southern Border debacle. How about crime, defund the police, smash and grab? Now you Dems are running off retailers since they can no longer afford to stock the shelves for the Free Stuff Army (Democrats).
My Take
October 11, 2023 at 12:10 am
Yeah, yeah, “what about?”
The GOP plans a form of nonmurderous fascism. Openly plans.
What Dems have or have not done reduces that damger not a bit.
Impeach Biden
October 11, 2023 at 6:11 am
Of course you ignore it but those are the facts. Now if this kind of buffoonery was going on under a Republican Administration, you and your liberal wackos would be losing your minds right now.
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