(13. August) Governor Andrew Cuomo met with Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu today, and Netanyahu posted these joint remarks, in which he equates Hamas with ISIS in Iraq and Syria– “in their grisly creeds and their grisly deeds”– and says the U.S. must support Israel’s fight with Hamas.

At minute 2, the governor, who is on his first trip out of the United States since he assumed office three years ago, can be seen nodding during Netanyahu’s equation of Hamas and ISIS as terrorist tyrannies that “reject modernity.” Then Cuomo affirms his solidarity, and himself equates Hamas with Al Qaeda.