Whoever wrote this tweet should be fired. Within minutes, they deleted the tweet. Now you might say, okay, that's a rogue staffer within the Office of Palestinian Affairs. The next day, October 8th, Tony Blinken from his own Twitter account sent out a tweet... We agreed Israel must not respond, must not retaliate. must not respond, must not retaliate. There should be no military response whatsoever. This is less than 24 hours after Hamas has murdered 1200 civilians. Again, I called that out again. (07:48–08:01)
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