Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis criticized President Joe Biden on Monday as “missing in action” and “asleep at the switch” in the wake of at least nine Americans killed in the Hamas terrorist attack over the weekend.
“This is just a total disaster in terms of their response,” DeSantis said of the Biden administration during an interview with Newsmax anchor Chris Salcedo.
DeSantis also warned that the attacks that killed hundreds of Israelis and wounded thousands more, despite having very tight border controls, has exposed a “massive, massive security issue” for America that should prompt Biden to reverse his open borders policy.
“We are vulnerable, and it shows that with what happened in Israel,” he said. “I think for sure we’re gonna eventually have a terrorist attack in this country that we’ll trace back to somebody coming across the southern border.”
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DeSantis reiterated comments he made last week that, if elected, one of his first acts as president would be to declare the border situation and national emergency and send troops to secure it.
He also pledged to ramp up deportations, build the rest of the wall, and use “lethal force” against drug cartels operating in Mexico.
DeSantis also outlined how he would radically shift U.S. policy in favor of Israel, if elected.
“We are going to stand with Israel in support of their efforts to defend themselves to the hilt,” he said. “We will not pressure them to do a so-called two-state solution with Palestinian Arabs,” meaning his administration would not support giving Palestinians their own independent territory.
“There is no two-state solution. Those Palestinian Arabs in places like the Gaza Strip, they don’t want their own state as much as they just want to eradicate the Jewish state,” said DeSantis.
“They don’t want to recognize Israel’s right to exist. So the whole notion that you could do a two-state solution, that you could somehow give away land and end up with a lasting peace, that is refuted by the fact that those Palestinian Arabs reject Israel’s existence outright.”
“They think it’s their duty to drive the Jews into the sea,” he added.
“So we’ve got to stop trying to delude ourselves into thinking there’s going to be some type of two-state solution when you have that kind of thinking that pervades, not just groups like Hamas, but the broader Palestinian Arab society.”
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