Blinken: Israel’s critics ‘almost deafeningly silent’ on Hamas

At least some of the international anger on behalf of suffering Palestinian civilians should be “reserved [for] and directed [at] Hamas” in addition to Israel, according to Secretary of State Antony Blinken.

“It remains astounding to me that the world is almost deafeningly silent when it comes to Hamas,” Blinken told reporters at the State Department on Tuesday. “We would not be where we are had they not chosen to engage in one of the most horrific acts of brutality and terrorism on Oct. 7 and had they then, having done that, not refused these many, many months to get out of the way of civilians. … Where’s the outrage there?”