Antony Blinken

America's resilience, strength, and leadership in the world remain unmatched.

We stand resolutely with them even as we stand resolutely for the protection of innocent civilians.

Allowing Russia to prevail, with Iran's support, will simply embolden both Moscow and Iran.

Civilians must be able to stay out of harm's way, a task that is made even more difficult as Hamas uses civilians as human shields.

Turning our backs on their efforts would have lasting implications for our own security and our own standing in the world.

Since Russia launched this war, the robust funding provided by Congress has enabled the people of Ukraine in their courageous fight to defend their nation.

As President Biden has made clear from the outset, while Israel has the right, indeed it has the obligation to defend itself, the way it does so matters.

The President and I both stressed in our conversations with the Israeli government the need for Israel to operate by the law of war and in accordance with international humanitarian law and to take all possible measures to avoid civilian…

America does not stand alone. We have built extraordinary coalitions with friends, who carry their share of the burden.

The Administration continues to believe that a negotiated two-state solution along the 1967 lines--with mutually agreed-to swaps--is the best way to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

There has never been a time in my own experience where we have had greater unity of purpose.

We have urge the Israelis, for example, to provide the authority with the resources that it needs that are being held back.

We are very aggressively engaged in cracking down on financing and support for Hamas.

Ultimately though, beyond that is what we come back to, what this administration believes, which is the imperative of getting to two states for two peoples.

That humanitarian law requires that there be unfettered humanitarian assistance.

We built a coalition of more than 50 countries to help deal with the aggression that Putin is committing in Ukraine.

The President himself has been very clear, very direct, and very explicit about our concerns about extreme settler violence.

If the regime has, in fact, violated the agreement that it reached, then of course we will take the necessary action.

Let us be very clear about this because it is important.

We have sanctioned more than 400 Iranian individuals or entities for things like supporting Hamas.

The impediment has been Hamas.

We want to get our fellow citizens out, and we are trying to find a way to do that.

We should work with other countries and enforce every reasonable measure to make sure that the migratory flow is safe, orderly, and humane.

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

I think it would do both terrible harm to our values, but also to our core interests.