https://www.foxnews.com/world/kirby-suggests-its-unlikely-hamas-ideology-will-be-eliminated
White House National Security Council spokesperson John Kirby suggested Thursday that it’s unlikely that the ideology of the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas can be eradicated by Israel’s military operations.
Kirby spoke a day after President Biden said he thinks Israel's military operation in Gaza will stop when Hamas “no longer maintains the capacity to murder, abuse and do horrific things to the Israelis.”
“What we have learned through our own experiences … through military and other means, you can absolutely have a significant impact on [a] terrorist group's ability to resource itself, to train fighters, to recruit fighters, to plan and to execute attacks,” Kirby said Thursday during a briefing.
“I mean, look at the shadow of itself that ISIS is right now, look at the shadow of itself that al Qaeda is right now. That doesn't mean that the ideology also withers away and dies,” he continued. “But you can absolutely have a practical, meaningful effect on a terrorist organization's ability to conduct and execute its attacks.”