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White House Press Secretary Caroline Levitt He angrily attacked pro-Palestinian protesters who hacked communications systems at several airport terminals this week to broadcast profane messages about their boss and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Levitt was appearing on Fox News just after lunch once again as Senate failed to break the deadlock Reopening the government on day 16 of the shutdown and restoring funding to government agencies, allowing federal employees to be paid. Democrats are demanding that Republicans vote to renew federal health care subsidies to secure their votes to pass a continuing resolution through the upper chamber of Congress.
He was asked by the Fox host to respond to a number of issues, including New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani’s recent appearance on the network for the first time and then video showing PA systems in several airports were apparently hacked to broadcast messages that began: “f*** [Benjamin] Netanyahu and [Donald] Trump.”
Levitt did not specifically address the issue of the airport systems being destroyed, but instead offered a broad response attacking the millions of Americans who support the Democrats: “The core constituency of the Democratic Party is made up of Hamas terrorists, illegal aliens, and violent criminals,” she said.
She then said specifically about pro-Palestine protesters: “I would like to ask where are all the ‘Free Palestine’ protesters? This is President TrumpWho literally liberated Palestine, and they are now very quiet about why they can’t stand President Trump. “And that is the foundation of the Democratic Party today.”
Last year, the White House press secretary was playing a very different tune. During the campaign, he attacked Democrats for criticizing Republican voters and claimed that his boss would be a president “for all Americans”, including Democrats.
A Democratic congressman responded to Leavitt’s comments Thursday afternoon. Greg Kaiser of Texas wrote: “Carolyn Levitt should resign. They try to make us hate each other to distract from the fact that they are robbing us all blind. It’s sick.”
Levitt’s comments come as the peace deal between Israel and Gaza has become a rare issue on which Democrats are willing to directly praise the president. Former President Joe Biden’s national security adviser Jake Sullivan said Trump “absolutely” deserves praise for the peace deal, while the president’s usual critics in Congress also offered cautious optimism.
Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who was one of the first Democrats to call the Israeli assault on Gaza genocide, told a CNN audience at a town hall this week that Trump’s efforts to secure the return of Israeli hostages and Palestinians held in Israeli prisons were a “tremendous accomplishment,” while cautioning that there is uncertainty about whether the ceasefire will hold. There were “questions”.
The White House press secretary’s declaration is also false in principle: The concept of a “free” Palestine refers specifically to the state’s long-standing ambitions for Palestinians living in Gaza and the occupied West Bank. While the latest peace deal brokered by Trump calls for conditions potentially being established to realize those ambitions, it does not call for definitively establishing statehood at the end of the process, nor has Israel agreed to even consider it.
Point 19 of the president’s 20-point plan, which Netanyahu has adopted while avoiding direct commitments on some aspects, reads: “While the redevelopment of Gaza moves forward and when the PA reform program is carried out in earnest, conditions can ultimately be created for a credible path to Palestinian self-determination and statehood, which we recognize as the aspiration of the Palestinian people.”
The Netanyahu-led Israeli government vocally opposes Palestinian statehood as a concept and has said it will “never” allow a Palestinian state to be established on Israel’s doorstep, calling for a two-state solution.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio has also poured cold water on the concept of Palestinian statehood being recognized by world leaders in Europe and Canada through official statements: “There is no Palestinian state, no matter how many papers they draw up, and there will only be one if there are negotiations with Israel,” he said in September.
Meanwhile, in Gaza, US-brokered ceasefire reached Looks extremely delicate.
Israeli forces continue Hamas accused of ceasefire violation Around the return of dead hostages, who Hamas says have not been recovered due to the wide scope of destruction in the Gaza Strip. Hamas says 26 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli forces. IDF officials responded that the deaths were reportedly the result of Palestinians approaching Israeli positions and failing to heed warnings to avoid those areas. At least some of these deaths resulted from Israeli airstrikes.
According to officials, Hamas has released all 20 remaining hostages and detainees and nine of the 28 bodies. Israeli officials said on Wednesday that aid deliveries to civilians in the famine-stricken region would be halved until all dead hostages are recovered and handed over to Hamas.