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US President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for national security adviser Mike Waltz says that Hamas must be destroyed and have no role at all in postwar Gaza

Speaking in an interview on the Call Me Back podcast with Dan Senor, Waltz also says the incoming administration’s relationship with Israel will be much more supportive than the Biden administration’s was, reported The Times of Israel.

“We’ve been clear that Gaza has to be fully demilitarized, Hamas has to be destroyed to the point that it cannot reconstitute, and that Israel has every right to fully protect itself,” Waltz says. “Hamas cannot have a role. ISIS doesn’t have a role. Al Qaeda doesn’t have a role.”

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“These are hostage-taking, murderous, rapist, torturers that never should ever have any role in governing,” he says.

“I think we’re in a very good place because the Israeli government didn’t listen sometimes to the not-so-good advice coming out of this administration,” Walz says.

“And now we are where we are, where Iran is in the worst position it’s been. And that’s not to say this administration didn’t help with shooting down the missiles, [or that] they didn’t help with arms, but they also tapped the brakes as well in a way that I just did not find rational.”

“You’re not going to see this administration tapping the brakes to make sure Israel can arm itself,” he says.

“It’s a huge priority and let’s call it what it is. It’s the next round of the Abraham Accords. I’ve always kind of felt like this current administration shifted their language to call it normalization rather than what it is, which is, I think, a tremendous historic region-changing agreement between Saudi Arabia and Israel,” Walz says.