Gonna continue the coverage from israel. President biden had another lengthy phone call today with israels Prime Minister, benjamin netanyahu. Vice president Kamala Harris joined the phone call in which President Biden pledged more military aid to israel, after that call, at 2 24 pm, the president said this. You know, there are moments in life, and i mean this literally, when the pure, Unadulterated Evil is unleashed. On this world. The people of israel lived through one such moment this weekend. The bloody hands of the Terrorist Organization, hamas, a group who stated purpose for being is to kill jews. This is an act of sheer evil. More than 1000 civilians slaughtered, not just killed, slaughtered in israel. Among them, at least 14 american citizens. Killed. Parents butchered using their bodies to try to protect their children. Stomach churning reports of being babies being killed. Entire families slain. Young people massacred while attending a musical festival the to celebrate peace.
You know, there are moments in life, and i mean this literally, when the pure, Unadulterated Evil is unleashed. On this world. The people of israel lived through one such moment this weekend. The bloody hands of the Terrorist Organization, hamas, a group whose stated purpose for being is to kill jews. This is an act of sheer evil. More than 1000 civilians slaughtered, not just killed, slaughtered in israel. Among them, at least 14 american citizens. Killed. Parents butchered using their bodies to try to protect their children. Stomach churning reports of babies being killed. Entire families slain. Young people massacred while attending a musical festival to celebrate peace. To celebrate peace. Women raped, assaulted, paraded as trophies. Families hid their fear for hours and hours, desperately trying to keep their children quiet. To avoid drawing attention. Thousands of wounded. Alive, but carrying with them the bullet holes and the Shrapnel Wounds and the memory of what they endured.
horrific. clearly the nato secretary-general cannot get ahead of the nato members starting with the united states and president biden has made it clear that he doesn t want u.s. forces to be involved in this war. but i agree with general mccaffrey and you, andrea, i think if something like this were to happen it does change the calculation. and i do think that this will be a discussion for the nato leaders on thursday, what are the escalation scenarios. it is chemicals, and it could be just a destruction of chemical weapons plants which will release boy on gases as already has happened. ammonia has been leaking out of a plant targeted by the russians. it could be cyberattacks on
involved militarily, but they don t say it, right? so, i think there are two pieces to this. i understand that there are high-level connections between the u.s. and the russians in which it has made very, very clear that that kind of use of these kinds of weapons would change the calculus, and if there is a response being contemplated, that we would communicate that privately, not publicly. so that s number one. i think there is a distinction between what we communicate to putin and my understanding is there are communication channels open. i mean, secondly i think there is a need for the alliance of 30 independent countries, all of them democracies, to come together, and that just takes time. i think the nato meeting today did discuss escalation scenarios and what we might possibly do, but there s quiet work under way in the u.s., as you just confirmed, again, on these tiger teams, but also with our nato