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DeSantis defends move to kick out pro-Palestinian groups that support Hamas from state college campuses
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Sunday said he stands by the decision to decertify any pro-Palestinian student groups that side with Hamas from state college campuses, arguing that to allow these groups to openly side with “brutal terrorist organizations” is like committing “suicide as a country.”
DeSantis, a 2024 Republican presidential candidate, appeared on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” saying that the pro-Palestinian solidarity group had also claimed to be part of the Hamas movement.
“This is not cancel culture, this group, they themselves said in the aftermath of the Hamas attack that they don’t just stand in solidarity, that they are part of this Hamas movement,” he said. “And so, yeah, you have a right to go out and demonstrate, but you can’t provide material support to terrorism. They’ve linked themselves to Hamas, and so we absolutely decertified them.”
Last week, the chancellor of the state’s university system penned a letter stating that a student group present in at least two universities in the Florida system, known as National Students for Justice in Palestine (National SJP), published a “toolkit” that refers to the Hamas operation as “the resistance” and says that “Palestinian students in exile are PART of this movement, not in solidarity with this movement.”
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DeSantis said he believes the move is “totally justified within the law,” which states that it is a felony under Florida law to knowingly provide material aid or resources to a designated foreign terrorist organization.
“Their own words are saying they’re part of this organization, that they don’t just stand in solidarity, that they don’t just support what they did, but that this is their movement, too,” DeSantis said. “So once you hitch your wagon to a group like Hamas, that takes you out of the realm of normal activity, and that’s something that we’re going to take action against.”
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DeSantis further questioned whether allowing a group to openly side with a terrorist organization was healthy for the country.
“Are we just going to commit suicide as a country and let groups metastasize who are openly siding with brutal terrorist organizations?” he asked. “I don’t think that’s a recipe for a successful country. I want to have a country where we’re protected from that stuff. So I think we made the right decision. I stand by it 100%.”
DeSantis has been a vocal proponent of cracking down on and condemning the Hamas terrorist attack in Israel on Oct. 7 that killed more than 1,400 Israelis. He recently said he would cancel student visas and deport foreign nationals who celebrate Hamas if he is elected president.
Fox News’ Andrew Mark Miller contributed to this report.
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Sullivan: Israel should protect Gaza civilians despite Hamas making ‘life difficult’ with human shields
Israel should take responsibility for protecting innocent civilians in Gaza even though Hamas is using them as human shields, Biden administration national security adviser Jake Sullivan said Sunday, as Israeli forces continue to bombard the Gaza Strip following the deadly terrorist attack more than three weeks ago.
Sullivan appeared on CNN’s “State of the Union,” saying the Israeli government should take every possible action to distinguish terrorists from civilians during its ongoing operations.
“Hamas is making life extremely difficult for Israel by taking civilians as human shields and putting their rocket infrastructure and terrorist infrastructure among civilians,” Sullivan said. “That creates an added burden for Israel, but it does not lessen Israel’s responsibility under international humanitarian law to distinguish between terrorist and civilians and protect lives of innocent people.”
Sullivan added: “And that is the overwhelming majority of the people in Gaza.”
While Sullivan said President Biden will speak with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu later Sunday about protecting Palestinian civilians in Gaza, he added that the U.S. has already been holding conversations behind closed doors about protecting civilians.
“We have had conversations privately, as well as our public pronouncements, private conversations with Israel about the need to protect innocent civilians and be targeted in their military operations so that it’s focused on the terrorists and not on innocent people whose lives deserve to be protected,” he said.
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Netanyahu on Saturday announced that his forces have entered the “second stage” of its war with the terrorist group Hamas, greatly expanding its ground operations in Gaza.
Since Hamas terrorists first infiltrated Israel on Oct. 7, as many as 8,700 people have been killed in the war on both sides, including at least 1,400 Israeli civilians and soldiers and 33 Americans. The Hamas-run Gaza health ministry claims more than 7,300 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza and 110 in the West Bank, although the Biden administration has looked at numbers coming from Hamas with a degree of skepticism.
At least 10 Americans are feared to be among the 229 people held captive by Hamas.
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Sullivan on Israel-Hamas war escalating into regional conflict: ‘Risk is real’
National security adviser Jack Sullivan warned on Sunday that the “risk” of the Israel-Hamas war escalating into a wider regional conflict is “real,” vowing the U.S. will continue to respond to attacks from Iran proxies to deter the escalation of the conflict in the Middle East.
Asked on ABC News’s “This Week,” about what’s expected if Iran-backed groups continue attacks on U.S. forces, Sullivan said, “The president has been very straightforward on this — if American troops are attacked by Iran and its proxies, we will respond. We did respond if attacks continue, will respond, and I think the Iranians understand our message.”
“And we, of course, are taking every measure necessary to protect our forces, to increase our vigilance, and to work with other countries in the region to try to keep this conflict that is currently in Israel and Gaza from spinning out into a regional conflict, but the risk is real, and therefore vigil is high and the steps we are taking to deter that and prevent that are serious, systematic and ongoing.”
Sullivan’s comments come just days after U.S. fighter jets struck two facilities in eastern Syria used by Iran and its proxies following attacks against U.S. troopers in the region.
Defense officials told reporters President Biden ordered U.S. military forces to carry out “self-defense airstrikes” on a weapons storage facility and an ammunition storage area used by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.
Defense Sectary Lloyd Austin said last week the strikes by F-16 fighter jets are in response to a series of ongoing and mostly unsuccessful attacks against U.S. personnel in Iraq and Syria by “Iranian-backed militia groups,” that began earlier this month.
Attacks on American forces have increased in the three weeks since militant group Hamas carried out a bloody incursion into Israel, gunning down hundreds of civilians and soldiers across multiple Israeli towns. Hamas’s attacks have left over 1,400 Israelis dead — including hundreds of civilians at their homes, at a bus stop and at a music festival.
Israel quickly responded with a bombardment of Gaza that ramped up over the weekend ahead of an expected ground incursion by Israel forces. Over 8,000 Palestinians have died so far in the conflict, the Gaza Health Ministry reported on Sunday.
Austin said the U.S. strikes in Syria were “narrowly-tailored,” and “intended solely to protect and defend U.S. personnel in Iraq and Syria,” while noting they were separate from the ongoig violence between Israel and Hamas.
U.S. and world leaders however have expressed concerns over third-parties, like Iran and its proxies using the conflict between Israel and Hamas, which is backed by Iran, to engage in a separate front with Israel and escalate conflict in the region.
Since Hamas’s attacks, Lebanese militant group Hezbollah has also exchanged fire with Israel, fueling further concerns of escalation.
The U.S. has maintained its “unwavering support,” of Israel, while acknowledging the responsibility of the Israeli forces to differentiate between Hamas fighters and civilians amidst the violence.
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