Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) is insisting she is not pro-Hamas after receiving backlash for describing Israel’s retaliation to the Hamas terrorist attacks as “war crimes.”
When an MSNBC host questioned if Israel should be able to defend itself as a nation, AOC said that “war crimes” are not the way to do so, as she believes they are guilty of now.
“I think one of the things that’s important to recognize about this situation is the asymmetry of what is going on as well as the collective punishment of what is happening to the Palestinian people at this moment.” (Trending: Biden Official Caught Working For Terrorists)
Rep. @AOC calls for Israel to be investigated for war crimes over its alleged “dropping & deployment of white phosphorus.”
“It is unacceptable to think that 1,700 Palestinian children alone, that their deaths will somehow … justify the violence that we saw on Oct. 7th” pic.twitter.com/fF6zIYQyra
— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) October 23, 2023
“Hamas has absolutely engaged in horrific attacks. Every single day there are more details that are released about what occurred on October 7th that shocks the human consciousness and shocks our conscience, our collective conscience.”
“However we do know as well that war crimes do not constitute and are not an appropriate response for other war crimes,” she added.
“It is inacceptable to think that 1700 Palestinian children alone, their deaths will somehow make up or justify the violence of what we saw on October 7th.”
“It occurs to me, I think a question we all must ask ourselves, what price of innocent life is acceptable in terms of targeting Hamas? And are we even receiving? We are receiving daily counts every day about the number of innocent people that are dying.”
“We are not seeing reports on how effective this has actually been in terms of dismantling Hamas. I think it’s very important for us to raise that point. I think it’s important for us to understand that this is part of a larger intergenerational cycle of violence,” she continued. (Trending: Joe Biden Does the Unthinkable For Hamas)
She went on to say that her opinion is “absolutely not a defense of Hamas, but blames both side of the conflict as being guilty of “political aims of violence.”
“I have long found the ignoring and sidelining of Palestinians in the U.S. House of Representatives, the humanity of Palestinian populations in the five years that I’ve been in Congress, quite shocking. This is not something that is new to many of us,” she concluded.
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