
Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. pulled no punches when asked about the potential for a Gaza ceasefire. Addressing Reuters on Wednesday, he declared that he doesn’t “even know what that means right now.”
A loud chorus of anti-Israel leftists continue to call for a ceasefire in the Middle Eastern nation’s war on Hamas terrorists.
But this proposal was flatly rejected by Tel Aviv, where officials know very well that it would only allow the terror organization to regroup and resupply. Kennedy obviously did not fall for this ruse.
RFK Jr. says any other nation would 'level' Gaza if attacked like Israel on Oct. 7 | The Times of Israel https://t.co/kZEOmdWa5w
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The candidate correctly noted that Hamas used every previous cessation of conflict to rebuild. He asked, “So what would be different this time?”
Then Kennedy compared Israel to any other nation that was viciously attacked as the country was on Oct. 7. At least 1,200 Israelis were massacred and hundreds more were taken hostage — many only to be murdered later.
He observed, “Any other nation that was adjacent to a neighboring nation that was bombing it with rockets, sending commandos over to murder its citizens, pledging itself to murder every person in the nation and annihilate it, would go and level it with aerial bombardment.”
Israel did not pursue this course, Kennedy explained, because it is a “moral nation.” It instead built the Iron Dome defense shield so it could avoid going into Gaza.
But the Oct. 7 attack, Kennedy told Reuters, left the country with no choice but to go into the territory and eradicate its enemies.
President Joe Biden initially pledged support for Israel but recently stepped up demands that the war on Hamas be halted. This coincidentally came as the Democratic Party suffered a major split on backing Israel’s war on terror.
But the Israeli Prime Minister is not a leader to bow to international pressure. Benjamin Netanyahu resisted all calls to cease the offensive and pledged to invade the Rafah enclave to root out the terrorist organization.
As for Kennedy, the Biden administration is terrified of his independent run for the White House. Polls consistently show the candidate siphoning off votes the Democrat desperately needs to hold off former President Donald Trump in November.