The narrative that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is committing genocide took hold because President Joe Biden didn’t support Israel after the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks, Sen. Peter Ricketts, R-Neb., told Newsmax on Monday.
Ricketts said on “The Record With Greta Van Susteren,” “If [Biden] had come out right away and said ‘Israel has been attacked, we’re going to support them no matter what they need to do to destroy Hamas, because Hamas is a terrorist organization, and if anybody else gets in the way, like Iran, we’re going to support Israel to destroy them, too.’ Guess what, the terrorists would back off, and there wouldn’t be all this pushback on Israel if we had just come out for them right away.”
Ricketts compared the situation to former President Ronald Reagan’s actions after Iran attacked a U.S. Navy ship back in the 1980s. Ricketts said, “Reagan started sinking their ships, and they backed off.”
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