He uses ‘nice guys’ and ‘Hamas’ in the same convoluted sentences:
Boehler twice used the phrase “nice guys” when discussing Hamas in such convoluted formulations during his CNN interview as to subsequently recognize the need, to issue a clarification because his remarks were being misinterpreted.
The first reference was when he was again discussing Dermer being upset: “I spoke with Ron, and I’m sympathetic." 1. He has someone that he doesn’t know well, making direct contact with Hamas. 2. Maybe I would see them and say, ‘Look, they don’t have horns growing out of their head. 3. They’re actually guys like us. They’re pretty nice guys.
The second reference was when he was asserting that Israel knows that his contacts with Hamas were ultimately going to prove beneficial to Israel: “Israel knows walking out of that, that it’s not like Hamas got the world because I thought they were a bunch of nice guys.”
Hours later, he realized that those comments were, shock, being misunderstood, and issued a clarification, with Trumpian resort to CAPITAL LETTERS
“I want to be CRYSTAL CLEAR as some have misinterpreted,” he wrote. “Hamas is a terrorist organization that has murdered thousands of innocent people.
They are BY DEFINITION BAD people. And as @POTUS has said, not a single Hamas member will be safe if Hamas doesn’t RELEASE ALL HOSTAGES IMMEDIATELY.”
