Speaking to reporters during a visit to the Western Wall, U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee spoke about the future of Gaza and Hamas.
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00:00I I didn't get the last part.
00:12I think the plans are yet to be determined. The tragedy is there has to be plans to do something different.
00:28If Hamas had been a civil people, if they had been something less than savages that massacred in the most vicious way, innocent civilians, they did not attack soldiers.
00:44They attack civilians. They attacked women, children, babies, helpless elderly people.
00:52They brought this upon themselves. Everything that people see there is not the result of anything other than the vicious hatred that Hamas harbored and carried out.
01:06On October the 7th, and they are paying the price and tragically of so many innocent people are paying the price for the sins and the evil of these monsters of Hamas.
01:19Yes.
01:20Well, Israel is an incredibly important ally to us, and people sometimes only think that Israel benefits from the
01:49United States. The truth is, the United States benefits a great deal from Israel and not just militarily.
01:55We certainly benefit from the technology, from the innovation, from defense systems that were developed here.
02:01But there's a much more important and long lasting side of where Americans benefit in agriculture, technology, medical advancement.
02:12So it is not a one way street. The United States and its citizens are directly the beneficiaries of some of the extraordinary achievements and accomplishments and innovations of people here in Israel.
02:28Anyone else? Yes.
02:31Well, I can't speak to how happy or unhappy they are because they have not communicated. Yeah, I'm just saying it's not for me to determine what they're happy or unhappy about.
02:51I'm here to represent the president, the American people, and I do know that there's never, ever been a president in America who has been a better friend to Israel than President Donald J. Trump. That I know.