During an interview with CNN yesterday, Khalil told Pamela Brown and Wolf Blitzer, “But it’s disingenuous to ask about condemning Hamas while Palestinians are the ones being starved now by Israel.
On the contrary, it is Khalil who is being disingenuous when he parrots Hamas' false claim of starvation.
It is also a moot point because the fact remains that Hamas wantonly murdered civilians, Jew and non-Jew alike, while taking 251 people as hostage. As of this writing, 50 hostages, living and dead, remain in Hamas clutches. If Khalil cannot bring himself to explicitly condemn such acts, it is because he supports Hamas and the things they do up to and including kidnap, rape and murder.
With that said, I still believe Khalil's detention by ICE was wrong as it had the effect of turning him into a cause célèbre and a living martyr. A court might very well be inclined to grant him monetary relief for the circumstances which led to his detention and the conditions he was subjected to while in ICE custody.
Yet whatever legitimate claims Khalil may have before the court, it does not make him a good person. Good people condemn Hamas without hesitation. Those who refuse to condemn Hamas without hesitation are bad people.
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