Emily Jacobs is a congressional reporter for the Washington Examiner. She began her career at Fox News Channel as a ticker writer and then moved to the New York Post's politics team as a national political reporter.
President Joe Biden defended the Palestinian people on Sunday, distinguishing them from the Hamas terrorists who carried out last weekend’s terror attack in Israel.
Biden's comment comes after he pledged unconditional support to Israel in its mission to take out the terror group after the Oct. 7 attack. The president himself spoke multiple times with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu after the attack to offer that support and delivered national remarks condemning Hamas's"pure, unadulterated evil" where he vowed to"have Israel's back.
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