{"id":555385,"date":"2021-06-07T13:05:57","date_gmt":"2021-06-07T17:05:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=555385"},"modified":"2021-06-07T13:05:58","modified_gmt":"2021-06-07T17:05:58","slug":"lives-lost-on-both-sides-blinken-wont-say-that-hamas-bears-full-responsibility-for-rocket-attacks-against-israel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/lives-lost-on-both-sides-blinken-wont-say-that-hamas-bears-full-responsibility-for-rocket-attacks-against-israel\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Lives Lost On Both Sides\u2019: Blinken Won\u2019t Say That Hamas Bears Full Responsibility For Rocket Attacks Against Israel"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">36<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Flives-lost-on-both-sides-blinken-wont-say-that-hamas-bears-full-responsibility-for-rocket-attacks-against-israel%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=555385&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Screen-Shot-2021-06-07-at-10.58.20-AM-e1623083573754.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>Secretary of State Antony Blinken would not say Monday that Hamas bore full responsibility for the recent rocket attacks against Israel.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/05\/25\/antony-blinken-us-gaza-israel-netanyahu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Blinken<\/a> testified before the House Foreign Affairs Committee and Republican South Carolina Rep. Joe Wilson pressed him on the \u201cfalse narrative\u201d that any party other than Hamas, backed by Iran, was responsible for the civilians killed in Israel and Gaza.<\/p>\n<p><strong>WATCH:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Wilson began his time by criticizing American media in general \u2014 and the New York Times specifically \u2014 for being \u201ccomplicit\u201d in promulgating the narrative that Israel was responsible for attacking civilian targets.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe media of the left has become a propaganda arm of Hamas terrorists,\u201d Wilson said, noting that the NYT had published photos of civilians killed when the Israelis returned fire without acknowledging Hamas\u2019 responsibility for instigating the conflict.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut for Hamas using children as human shields, no child would be dead. The photo display is disgusting smear of Israel and of the people of Israel. What is your view of the American media coverage, and what can the State Department do to prevent further attacks on families by Hamas from Iranian rockets?\u201d Wilson asked, making a point to address Iran\u2019s suspected role in the conflict. <strong><a class=\"text-black\" href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/05\/23\/antony-blinken-iran-sanctions-hamas\/\">(RELATED: Sec. Blinken Won\u2019t Say Whether He Believes Iran Is Funding Hamas Even After The Terror Group Admitted It)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI will focus on the policy, and so I will leave it to others to do the politics,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/05\/25\/united-states-reopen-jerusalem-consulate-general-biden-blinken-palestine-palestinian-abbas-mahmoud\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Blinken<\/a> replied. \u201cIt would be unacceptable for any country to have rockets rain down on it, disproportionate \u2014 indiscriminately targeting civilians and not do something about it. As you know, we strongly supported Israel\u2019s right to defend itself, to defend its people, against these indiscriminate rocket attacks. As a democracy, Israel also has an extra burden to do everything it possibly can avoid civilian casualties. And I have to tell you I think we are all, irrespective of politics, we can\u2019t lose sight of the fact that lives were lost on both sides in this most recent \u2014\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis would not have occurred if there hadn\u2019t been rocket attacks,\u201d Wilson pushed back, interrupting. \u201cThis was not just an incidental occurrence. The rocket attacks were the sole cause of the death of these children, and that is not politics.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs a former journalist myself, I am just shocked that we would have American media be so complicit in promoting a false narrative that Hamas is not totally responsible,\u201d Wilson continued. \u201cI\u2019ve been to Israel to see mothers there protecting their children, it is just horrifying. We need to be specific and go after the war criminals.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Wilson went on to press <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/05\/18\/antony-blinken-intel-israel-hamas-ap-office\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Blinken<\/a> further on Iran\u2019s role in destabilizing the area even as President Joe Biden\u2019s administration looked at the possibility of reentering the Iran Nuclear Deal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Secretary of State Antony Blinken would not say Monday that Hamas bore full responsibility for the recent rocket attacks against Israel.Blinken testified before the House Foreign Affairs Committee and Republican &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2279456,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Screen-Shot-2021-06-07-at-10.58.20-AM-e1623083573754.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"\u2018Lives Lost On Both Sides\u2019: Blinken Won\u2019t Say That Hamas Bears Full Responsibility For Rocket Attacks Against Israel","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-555385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Screen-Shot-2021-06-07-at-10.58.20-AM-e1623083573754.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"\u2018Lives Lost On Both Sides\u2019: Blinken Won\u2019t Say That Hamas Bears Full Responsibility For Rocket Attacks Against Israel","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=555385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555385\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2279456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=555385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=555385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=555385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}