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White House roasts 'Squad' Democrats for 'repugnant' comments after
brutal Hamas murders: 'Disgraceful'
Brandon Gillespie
Tue, October 10, 2023 at 2:59 PM PDT·3 min read
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White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre turned up the heat on
members of the far-left "Squad" during Tuesday's press briefing,
blasting their comments on the war between Israel and Hamas as "wrong,"
"repugnant," and "disgraceful."

"I've seen some of those statements this weekend, and we're going to
continue to be very clear. We believe they're wrong, we believe they're
repugnant, and we believe they're disgraceful," Jean-Pierre said when
asked for the administration's reaction to comments made by Rep. Ilhan
Omar, D-Minn., Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., Rep. Alexandria
Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y. and Rep. Cori Bush, D-Mo.

"Our condemnation belongs squarely with terrorists who have brutally
murdered, raped, kidnapped hundreds, hundreds of Israelis. There can be
no equivocation about that. There are not two sides here. There are not
two sides," she added.

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Squad members and Karine Jean-Pierre
From left to right: Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., White House press
secretary Karine Jean-Pierre, and Rep. Cori Bush, D-Mo.
In their statements following the outbreak of war between Israel and
Hamas over the weekend, Tlaib and Bush ignited outrage when they called
for U.S. assistance to Israel to end.

"I grieve the Palestinian and Israeli lives lost yesterday, today, and
every day," Tlaib's statement read. "As long as our country provides
billions in unconditional funding to support the apartheid government,
this heartbreaking cycle of violence will continue."

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Bush's statement said, "As part of achieving a just and lasting peace,
we must do our part to stop this violence and trauma by ending U.S.
government support for Israeli military occupation and apartheid."

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Ocasio-Cortez and Omar both called for a "ceasefire" between Israel and
Hamas on Saturday, the day of the attacks that saw hundreds of Israelis
and many from others countries brutally slaughtered, including women,
children and babies.

Additionally, in a Monday social media thread, Omar seemed to equate the
Israeli victims killed by Hamas terrorists this weekend and Palestinians
killed in the ongoing Israeli response.

"Just as we honor the humanity of the hundreds of innocent Israeli
civilians and 9 Americans who were killed this weekend, we must honor
the humanity of the innocent Palestinian civilians who have been killed
and whose lives are upended," she wrote on X, going on to highlight the
hardships of living in Gaza and accusing Israel of operating an
"apartheid" state in an attempt to explain violence by Hamas.

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Israel defense force armored personnel carrier vehicle
Israeli forces establish heavily armed control points along the border
as Israel tightens measures by the army, police and other security
forces after Hamas launched Operation Al-Aqsa Flood in Sderot, Israel
over the weekend.
"Palestinian residents of the West Bank have scarcely better lives than
Gazans — with the routine destruction of their ancestral homes,
destruction of their crops, and violent attacks by Israeli settlers,"
she wrote.

"Palestinians have few recourses for justice and accountability. Attacks
by the IDF and settlers against Palestinians are regularly met with
impunity. Efforts to seek justice in international courts are
stonewalled by the Israeli government, with U.S. support," she added.
"As the world is condemning Hamas’s attacks, we must also oppose an
Israeli military response that has already taken the lives of hundreds
of Palestinians, including nearly two dozen children."

Fox has reached out to the offices of Omar, Tlaib, Ocasio-Cortez and
Bush for comment.

Fox News' Houston Keene and Anders Hagstrom contributed to this report.

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