US Rep. Mast, a Former IDF Soldier, Says Palestinian Babies Killed in Gaza Are Not ‘Innocent Civilians’
Mast made the comments when confronted by activists
from Code Pink
by Dave DeCamp February 1, 2024
Members of the antiwar activist group Code Pink
confronted Rep. Brian Mast (R-FL), a former member of the Israeli Defense
Forces, about the Palestinian babies being killed by Israel in Gaza. Mast told
them the babies were not innocent.
Medea Benjamin, co-founder of Code Pink, asked Mast,
“You haven’t seen the pictures of all the babies being killed?”
Mast replied, “These are not innocent Palestinian
civilians across the world.”
Another activist asked about the 500,000 Palestinians
who are starving in the Gaza Strip. “The half a million people starving to
death are people that should go out there and put a government in place that
doesn’t go out there and attack Israel on a daily basis,” Mast said.
The congressman was also asked about the sheer
destruction caused by the Israeli bombing campaign, which is comparable to the
Allied strategic bombing campaigns of World War II.
“They’ve destroyed more infrastructure in Gaza than
they did in Dresden,” during World War II, one activist said. Mast replied,
“And there’s more infrastructure that needs to be destroyed.”
Mast previously invoked World War II to justify Israel’s slaughter in
Gaza, which has killed
over 27,000 Palestinians. “I would encourage the other side to not so lightly
throw around the idea of innocent Palestinian civilians, as frequently said,”
he said on the House floor in November. “I don’t think we would so lightly throw
around the term ‘innocent Nazi civilians’ during World War II.”
In October, Mast wore his IDF uniform on Capitol Hill.
“As the only member to serve with both the United States Army and the Israel
Defense Forces, I will always stand with Israel,” he wrote on X at the time.
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