Antony Blinken: “Putin is very much trying to take advantage of the Hamas attack on Israel in the hopes that it will distract us...”

We have managed to move to a better trajectory politically to get back to a clearly mandated democratic government.

That statement is incorrect.

We assess that Hamas has recruited almost as many new militants as it has lost. That is a recipe for an enduring insurgency and perpetual war.

That is, again, totally misleading and wrong.