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By Joshua Klein
(October 7, 2024 / Breitbart) In an exclusive statement to Breitbart News on Monday — the one-year mark of the unprecedented October 7 massacre — ZOA President Morton Klein, who has led the nation’s oldest pro-Israel group for more than thirty years, issued a fiery statement outlining what he described as the underlying causes of the brutal Hamas assault on Israelis. These causes, he noted, range from U.S. policy failures under President Biden to Israel’s internal decisions regarding Gaza.
Describing the attacks as “subhuman unspeakable atrocities” committed by Hamas, he pointed to several critical factors that enabled such violence.
One of his primary targets is the approach of the U.S. administration under Biden-Harris toward Iran, which he denounced for directly benefiting the terror groups Hamas and Hezbollah. According to Klein, by ignoring sanctions and releasing funds to the theocratic Islamic Republic of Iran, President Biden allowed Tehran to regain financial strength, fueling terrorist activities across the region.
“Iran’s reserves increased from $4 billion to nearly $100 billion,” he stated, asserting that this financial surge allowed Iran to rearm and fund terror.
The ZOA leader also blamed the Biden administration for pressuring the Jewish State to issue work permits to thousands of Gazans, which he said provided intelligence that helped Hamas map out civilian targets and directly facilitated the Islamic terrorist group’s atrocities on October 7.
He then highlighted several specific actions by the Biden administration, including pressuring Israel in May 2021 to limit its retaliation after Hamas launched 4,500 missiles, preventing a decisive military victory. He also criticized Biden for providing over $1 billion to UNRWA, which fuels anti-Israel sentiment; and for appointing officials like radical pro-Palestinian activist-turned-Biden’s NSC Intel Director Maher Bitar and Hady Amr, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Israel-Palestine, who have supported the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement, sending signals that “encouraged and motivated the Muslim terrorists” of Hamas and Iran.
Klein accused the Biden administration of promoting hostile policies toward Israel after October 7, including urging restraint, delaying arms supplies, and pressuring for ceasefires that benefited Hamas and Hezbollah.
He noted that the rocket attacks from those groups have displaced nearly 100,000 Israeli Jews, rendering northern and southern Israel “uninhabitable” — an “intolerable” situation that requires the destruction of the terror organizations as an “existential necessity.”
He also slammed Biden’s recent refusal to allow Israel to strike Iran’s oil and nuclear facilities.
“Iran calls for Israel’s — as well as America’s — destruction and has sent teams of terrorists to assassinate Trump. Whose side is Biden on?!” Klein asked. “Why is Biden protecting and defending the terrorist Nazi-like Islamic state of Iran, while endangering Israel?”
He then criticized the Democrat president for condemning Gaza civilian casualties while ignoring those in Ukraine, as well as for funding the Palestinian Authority, with aid ending up in the hands of Hamas and Hezbollah.
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