House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) called for a “decisive defeat” of Hamas during a press conference Wednesday ahead of a looming Israeli invasion of the Gazan city Rafah.
Jeffries said he supports President Joe Biden’s pro-Israel stance in the State of the Union address last week but tiptoed around agreeing that invading Rafah, which houses many displaced Palestinians, would be crossing a “red line.”
“I support everything that the president said during the State of the Union address and his general perspective that what we have to do is make sure that Hamas is decisively defeated. It’s a brutal terrorist organization,” Jeffries said. “Unless we defeat Hamas, there is no possibility for just and lasting peace.”
Biden’s red line comment came over the weekend, and he
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