Tuesday’s bombing of a metropolitan hospital in Gaza further escalated the Israel-Hamas conflict. The hospital housed not only patients and staff, but also thousands seeking shelter from the bombs raining down.
Both sides claim innocence in the hospital bombing where an estimated 500 were killed.
At grave risk, both personally and politically, President Joe Biden was in Israel Wednesday to demonstrate his support as well as help navigate Israel’s response.
The challenges are immense.
This, however, is where Biden’s long tenure comes as a distinct advantage.
Because he has been there.
TODAY’S HAMAS is yesterday’s ISIS and al-Qaeda, the terrorist groups that attacked the United States on Sept. 11, 2001.
And just like then, as well as Russia’s initial attack on Ukraine in 2022, the Oct. 7 attack on Israel was unprovoked.
And barbaric.
Of the 5,000 fatalities over the last 11 days, two-thirds are children.
Biden understands Israel’s need for retaliation.
The U.S. response to the terrorist bombings in 2001 was to invade Afghanistan, home of some of the Taliban and al-Qaeda perpetrators. A year later, then-President George W. Bush expanded the war to Iraq, based on the unfounded claims it was producing weapons of mass production and was colluding with al-Qaeda.
In the 9/11 terrorist attacks, nearly 3,000 American lives were lost. When we are faced with tragedy and loss, we must go back to the beginning and remember who we are. We’re all human beings, created in an image of God with dignity, humanity and purpose.President Joe Biden
Our “war on terror” resulted in the deaths of more than 7,000 U.S. troops, 8,000 U.S. contractors, and over 177,000 Afghan, Iraq, Pakistan and Syrian soldiers.
