J.D. Vance: We Have to Let Israel Finish the Job and End Hamas

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VANCE: “We have to ask ourselves, why are Palestinian civilian casualties so high? It's because Hamas started the war and now they hide behind Palestinian civilians. So, if you want to learn the lessons, I think, of the last 40 years, the most important thing is, we have to defeat Hamas as a viable military organization. You're never going to defeat the ideology of Hamas, but you can root out those commanders, those final military-trained battalions, and I think we should empower the Israelis to do it. But the final point here, Dana, I think this is very important, our goal in the Middle East should be to allow the Israelis to get to some good place with the Saudi Arabians and other Gulf Arab states. There is no way that we can do that unless the Israelis finish the job with Hamas. If they can't even do that, the attitude in the Middle East will be, 'You can't trust these guys, they're not pursuing their own national security.' So we have got to let them finish this job, and I think, hopefully, on the other end of it, get to a new era in the Middle East."