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WHITE HOUSE (VINnews) — At Wednesday’s White House press briefing, John Kirby lashed out at an Arab reporter who called Israel “a terrorist state” inflicting “collective punishment” on Gazans and “killing…civilians” and “journalists”.
The reporter claimed that “nothing is changing on the ground” and “over 60 journalists died on the ground”, and he demanded Kirby explain “what’s really happening.”
He then called Israel a terrorist state: “So, if we call Hamas a terrorist group, killing civilians as a non-state actor player, isn’t it also Israel acting like a terrorist state, killing humans — civilians, armed people, journalists every day.”
Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre interjected, attempting to allow Kirby to sidestep the question, but Kirby told her it was “okay” before launching into a thorough slamming of the vicious reporter.
“Hamas — Hamas deliberately slaughtered and murdered some 1,200 people on the seventh October and it seems like we’re all willing to forget that. Deliberately. And that was their intent. And to take hostages,” Kirby said.
Reiterating the U.S. has “been very honest with our Israeli counterparts” in demanding they “be very careful, cautious, deliberate,” Kirby also emphasized Israel has both “a right and responsibility to defend themselves against that very genocidal threat.”
Growing increasingly agitated, Kirby stated “it is not the Israel Defense Forces’s strategy to kill innocent people” and “it’s not like the Israelis are sitting around every morning and saying, ‘hey, how many more civilians can we kill today? Let’s go bomb a — let’s go bomb a school or a hospital or a residential building and just cause civilian casualties?’”
Kirby then called out Hamas setting up its operations amid innocent civilians and thus making it “very difficult” for anyone to hold them to account for their barbarism. With that said, Kirby asked the reporter if he thinks that’s the “right” thing to do, but the reporter ignored it.
Kirby concluded: They’re not doing that. They’re trying to go after Hamas and it’s very difficult when Hamas — oh, by the way, in addition to deliberately slaughtering people — is deliberately hiding themselves in residential buildings, in hospitals, in tunnels, making it — putting the innocent people of Gaza directly in the crossfire. Now, you tell me: Is that right?
WH’s John Kirby:
“It is not the Israeli Defense Forces’ strategy to kill innocent people.
“It’s not like the Israelis are sitting around every morning and saying, ‘Hey, how many more civilians can we kill today?’
“They are not doing that. They are trying to go after Hamas.” pic.twitter.com/M0uP2kVovx
— Jacob N. Kornbluh (@jacobkornbluh) December 7, 2023
This fellow is amazing every time. I think he should run for president.
Wow.
Powerful and clear.
Draft Kirby for President!
The Arab Moslim so-called palestinian people are pathological liars and cannot accept any truth. Therefore they are killers and threaten their own people. They are not humans nor animals but monsters.
The headline says “John Kirby DECIMATES Arab Reporter Who Calls Israel ‘Terrorist State'” but if you look closely, you can see that nobody was decimated.
Kirby I guess did the best of his limited ability (since he is a 2023 democrat )but those Arabs levying with a straight face guess is their profession