  SAMUEL CORUM/GETTY IMAGES President Biden: ‘The United States stands with Israel. We will not ever fail to have her back.’By Marc Rod U.S. officials and lawmakers have reacted with a unified voice in speaking out against the massive Hamas terror attack on Israel on Saturday, offering strong support for Israel and its defense and condemnation of the attacks. At least 250 Israelis were killed and over 1,500 Israelis injured in Hamas’ coordinated assault on southern Israel. Terrorists infiltrated several Israeli towns, kidnapped Israeli civilians and fired rockets reaching Tel Aviv and Jerusalem. The attack, which coincided with Shabbat and the Jewish holiday of Shemini Atzeret, also comes almost exactly 50 years after the beginning of the 1973 Yom Kippur War. You May Have Missed50 YEARS ONYom Kippur War hero: ‘You can’t replace a government by refusing to serve’Fifty years on, the Yom Kippur War is still an open wound in Israeli society. Around this time each year, journalists and historians dig into the archives to try to assign blame for Israel being unprepared, even as its leadership had the information it needed to know that war was looming.     |
10.07.2023
Breaking: U.S. officials, lawmakers across political spectrum offer support for Israel
