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The American president, Joe Bidenquestioned this Friday that “the horrors” that Hamas perpetrated on October 7, in a declaration published as part of the International Day of Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust, in which it makes no reference to the war of Link.
The US president also warned about the increase in antisemitismafter the events that occurred on October 7th, when 1,200 people died after the attacks on Israel by the Islamic group Hamas and which resulted from the war Linkwhich has left more than 25,000 Palestinians dead and an unprecedented humanitarian crisis.
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“Following the cruel Hamas massacre, we have witnessed an alarming rise in despicable anti-Semitism at home and abroad, which has exposed painful scars from millennia of hatred and genocide of the Jewish people. AND unacceptable”Biden said.
In the statement, published on the eve of the commemoration of the aforementioned day, the North American president made no reference to the Gaza war, at a time when he is strongly questioned by the position of U.S full support for Israel in the conflict.
Last Tuesday, for example, a group of activists pro-Palestinian They interrupted shouting “Genocidal Joe!” in the first major speech of the president’s primary campaign and the Democratic Party’s presumptive re-election candidate in the November elections.
A survey published by The New York Times Last month, he noted that 57% of Americans disapprove of the president’s handling of the conflict and that 67% of young people under 30, a key group for Trump’s re-election Bidenwants a ceasefire in Link.
In the statement published this Friday, Biden stated that this year the duty to “remember the Holocaustthe evil of the Nazis and the scourge of antisemitism” It is “more urgent than ever.”
“On October 7, Hamas terrorists unleashed pure evil on the people of Israelmassacring approximately 1,200 innocent people and taking hundreds more hostage, including survivors of the Shoah. It was the worst atrocity committed against the Jewish people in a single day since Holocaust”, he remembered.
Therefore, he added, “without equivocation or exceptions, we must also vehemently reject” attempts to revise the history of the Holocaust and also “efforts to minimize the horrors that Hamas perpetrated on October 7, especially the atrocious and unforgivable use of rape and sexual violence to terrorize victims.”
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