When Hamas invades Israel, israel’s fate is in danger and ours. Israel’s unpreparedness during the invasion of Iraq
Mr. Netanyahu has been prime minister for 13 of the past 14 years. The Shin Bet security service’s head and military intelligence’s commander have taken responsibility, but the prime minister has failed to do so. But if the country and army were unprepared for the Hamas invasion, then there was only one place to stop.
At night, and when I wake up, the sirens sound again in my mind. There is no time at all since then. One cannot comprehend the jagged pieces of the news that describe the rave where Hamas men hunted down and killed young Israelis. Hamas’s taking grandmothers and young children as hostages and butchering families. Our army took 3 days to regain control of the area bordering Gaza. More than a week later, there continues to be bodies counted and attempts to identify them. How did this happen? Each conversation has echoes. The reflexive answer is that Hamas is barbaric — and that it opposes not the occupation but our very existence here.
The survivors and relatives of people who were killed in the attacks on Israel told the president their stories as he walked around a hotel conference room. One by one, he gave each of them a hug and talked about his own experiences with loss.
“Shock, pain, rage — an all-consuming rage,” Mr. Biden said later in a speech to the Israeli nation. “I understand and many Americans understand. You can not look at what happened to your parents, fathers, grandparents, daughters, sons, and even babies and not scream out for justice. Justice has to be done. don’t be consumed by the rage that you feel After 9/11, we were enraged in the United States. We made mistakes while trying to get justice and get justice.
Mr. Biden did not elaborate, but he presumably was referring to the invasion of Iraq, which he voted for as a senator and later came to regret. He did not give a reason for what he meant in Israel’s case. The United States wasted the world’s sympathy two decades ago when it allowed excesses that cause unnecessary loss of innocent life in order to destroy Hamas.
And we are also the ones who know, deep in our bones, which are made of the soil of this land, that the answer is peace. The only way we can fulfill our responsibility to our youngest ones is to acknowledge the nation of Palestine and the nation of Israel, as well as establish a state of Palestine with Israel.