The White House condemned recent comments made by the director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, in which he justified Hamas's Oct. 7 terrorist attack that sparked the current war. CAIR’s national executive director Nihad Awad said at a gathering of American Muslims for Palestine that the people of Gaza have the right to self-defense, while Israel does not, in a speech that surfaced Thursday. He gave the speech two weeks ago, but it circulated more broadly once it was shared by the Middle East Media Research Institute, a Washington-based group that monitors and translates Arabic and other media. BIDEN...