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White House roasts 'Squad' Democrats for 'repugnant'

comments after brutal Hamas murders: 'Disgraceful'
'Squad' members called for US to cut off support for Israel after Hamas butchered Israeli women and children
By Brandon Gillespie Fox News

Published October 10, 2023 5:59pm EDT

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White House roasts 'Squad' Democrats for 'repugnant' comments on Israel-Hamas war: 'Disgraceful'
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."

White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre turned up the heat on members of the far-
"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-
,

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.

BIDEN SHUNS CALLS TO DE-ESCALATE, VOWS US ‘HAS ISRAEL’S BACK' AS IT

PREPARES FOR GROUND WAR WITH HAMAS

From left to right: Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre, and Rep. Cori Bush, D-Mo.
(Getty Images)

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 .

"Igrieve 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."

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."

DEMOCRAT BLASTS ‘SQUAD’ MEMBERS OVER CALLS TO END ISRAEL ASSISTANCE: ‘IT
SICKENS ME’

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.

BIDEN RIPPED FOR NOT MENTIONING IRAN BY NAME IN SPEECH ON HAMAS ATTACKS:
‘UTTERLY IRRESPONSIBLE AND WEAK’

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. (Mostafa
Alkharouf/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

"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.

Brandon Gillespie is an associate editor at Fox News. Follow him on Twitter at @brandon_cg.

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