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WATCH — Biden Shifts the Goalposts: ‘Degrading‚’ Not ‘Defeating‚’ Hamas
State Department Deputy Spokesman Vedant Patel told reporters in a briefing on Tuesday that the U.S. shares the goal of “degrading” Hamas — avoiding the use of the word “defeating‚” in an apparent shift of U.S. policy on the Gaza war.
On Monday‚ National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan told reporters that President Joe Biden shared Israel’s goal of “defeating” Hamas‚ but believed it was not necessary for Israel to attack Hamas in the last stronghold of Rafah to do so:
The President told...