CFR’s Cook: U.S. Is ‘Gullible’ for Believing Israel that Hamas Sparked Riots

‘They are with the Israelis calling this plot on the part of Hamas’

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COOK: “Well there's a number of things that are going on here. It’s a coincidence that the embassy is happening — well, it’s not a coincidence, I'd say, the embassy opening is happening at the same time as the 70th anniversary of the Israel's founding, which coincides with not -- these protests have been going on for weeks culminating, the embassy added gas to a fire that was already burning. You’re absolutely right. The U.S. generally calls for restraint. They are with the Israelis calling this plot on the part of Hamas. I think the U.S. government is being a bit gullible here in accepting the Israeli line that it has everything to do with Hamas. The Palestinians, of course, would say this has nothing to do with Hamas." 

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