Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met on Friday with US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin at the IDF Central Headquarters in Tel Aviv.
Secretary Austin stated, "We're with you, Mr. Prime Minister. And as the President stated, we have your back. It's an awful week—disgusting acts by this terrorist group. As you know, I was the guy who eventually put the ISIS campaign together, and I know a lot about ISIS, and this is worse than what I saw with ISIS.
Netanyahu responded: "Hamas is ISIS, and I think what you said, and what the President has said in many ways, Hamas is worse than ISIS. And just as the entire civilized world united to fight ISIS, the united civilized world has to unite to help us fight Hamas. And I know that you stand with us, and I appreciate it."