'That is outrageous': Gen Jack Keane voices disapproval of Joe Biden pushing Israel for immediate ceasefire on 'Fox & Friends'

Jack Keane said, 'Now we just strengthened Hamas' hand rather dramatically and leveraged them in those negotiations'
PUBLISHED APR 7, 2024
Brian Kilmeade and Jack Keane on the April 4, 2024 episode of 'Fox & Friends' (Screengrab/Fox News)
Brian Kilmeade and Jack Keane on the April 4, 2024 episode of 'Fox & Friends' (Screengrab/Fox News)

NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK: Fox News senior strategic analyst, Ret Gen Jack Keane joined co-host Brian Kilmeade to discuss Israel's changed stance of sending more aid to Gaza following a strong warning from the United States, on Thursday, April 4 episode of 'Fox & Friends.'

Kilmeade shared that President Joe Biden has demanded an immediate ceasefire over a call to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu "while threatening to end US support if things don't change." This is in light of seven humanitarian aid workers in Gaza being killed by an Israeli airstrike on April 1.

President Joe Biden met with Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over the escalation of Israel-Palestine conflict (@POTUS/X)
President Joe Biden has demanded Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu call for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza (@POTUS/X)

Jack Keane reacts to Joe Biden's call for ceasefire

Keane claimed that the Israeli Prime Minister had a "6-week ceasefire on the table for weeks," but it was Hamas who had proved impossible to negotiate with to bring it into effect.

"Now... we just strengthened Hamas' hand rather dramatically and leveraged them in those negotiations," he stated.

Ret Gen Jack Keane on the April 4, 2024 episode of 'Fox & Friends' (Screengrab/Fox News)
Ret Gen Jack Keane on the April 4, 2024 episode of 'Fox & Friends' (Screengrab/Fox News)

While acknowledging the death of the aid workers to be a horrible thing, Keane felt that the United States should stay out of it and give Israel some credit, as they admitted making a mistake within the day, "apologized for it and began an investigation."

"They relieved two officers, they reprimanded two other officers. And (this) fact ... is a credit to them," he continued, believing that the investigations would show that the Israeli forces had "misidentified the WCK (World Central Kitchen) vehicle as being Hamas."

"The Israelis have taken the right steps given the horror of what took place (on October 7, 2023). They should be given some credit as opposed to being wirebrushed in public and being forced to concede to the adversary in negotiations. That is really outrageous."

Statement of IDF over strike on aid workers

The Israeli Defense Forces released a statement after investigating the attack on the aid group, that read, "The investigation found that the forces identified a gunman on one of the aid trucks, following which they identified an additional gunman."

"After the vehicles left the warehouse where the aid had been unloaded, one of the commanders mistakenly assumed that the gunmen were located inside the accompanying vehicles and that these were Hamas terrorists," it adds.



 

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