President Biden said that he thinks the Israel-Hamas war “need[s] a pause” during an event in Minnesota on Tuesday.
_x000D_While Biden was speaking at the campaign gathering, an audience member shouted: “As a rabbi, I need you to call for a ceasefire right now.”
_x000D_The president – who has not supported a ceasefire since the war began on October 7 – said that he believed in a “pause.”
_x000D_“I think we need a pause,” Biden began. “A pause means give time to get the prisoners out.”
_x000D_“I’m the guy that convinced Bibi to call for a ceasefire to let the prisoners out,” he added. “I’m the guy that talked to [Egyptian president] Sisi to convince him to open the door.”
_x000D_Biden later said that he understood the “emotion” over the war and said it is “incredibly complicated for Israelis.”
_x000D_“It’s incredibly complicated for the Muslim world as well… I supported a two state solution, I have from the very beginning,” he continued. “The fact is the matter is that Hamas is a terrorist organization. A flat-out terrorist organization.”
