THE SHOW NOTES: The Horrors in Israel as Biden’s Team Blunders

Welcome! Here are the breaking developments in Israel right now:

• A ground invasion of Gaza is expected after Netanyahu told Biden “We have to go in.”

• The Israeli military killed a group of gunmen crossing its northern border with Lebanon.

• At least nine Americans are confirmed dead in Israel.

• The White House says Joe Biden won’t make a statement on the attacks in Israel or the dead Americans today.

• Iran helped Hamas plan the attack at a meeting last Monday.

Headline from 2021: State Department admits possibility Palestinian aid will fund Hamas arsenal - Fox News

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Israel

The death toll from coordinated attacks on Israel by air, land, and sea has surpassed 800 after more than 1,000 Hamas soldiers breached the Gaza border fence and desecrated neighboring towns. Disturbing videos of unspeakable atrocities perpetrated on innocent Israeli citizens flooded social media.

Music festival: More than 260 of the deaths and an unknown number of violent sexual assaults occurred at the Supernova music festival in an Israeli border town. The eyewitness accounts at Tablet Magazine are unbelievably disturbing.

The Response

Less than 48 hours after Hamas took over 20 communities and 11 IDF bases near the border, the Israeli military has completely regained control of the region. After declaring war on Sunday, Israel called up a record 300,000 reservists and struck over 1,000 targets in Gaza with missile attacks.

Israeli Defense Minister: “I have ordered a complete siege on the Gaza Strip. There will be no electricity, no food, no fuel, everything is closed. We are fighting human animals and we are acting accordingly."

The problem: Roughly 150 Israeli hostages were taken back to Gaza and strategically spread across the densely populated 25-mile strip complicating Israel’s response.

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Washington Free Beacon: “The Biden administration was forced to delete a Saturday morning tweet from its Palestinian Affairs office calling on Israel to stand down amid a fresh wave of Hamas terror attacks that have left scores of Jews dead and the region on the cusp of war.”

Bloomberg: “Oil prices surged after a shock attack on Israel by Hamas brought renewed instability to the Middle East.”

Wall Street Journal: “Iranian security officials helped plan Hamas’s Saturday surprise attack on Israel and gave the green light for the assault at a meeting in Beirut last Monday, according to senior members of Hamas and Hezbollah, another Iran-backed militant group.”

New York Times: “This blow to Israel comes at a time of deep internal unease. Dismay that the Israel Defense Forces, the revered institution at the core of the nation’s security, could allow such a multipronged Palestinian assault to happen — and then appear slow to react — has been compounded by a widespread sense that the government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was fatally distracted.”

Jewish Insider: “Reps. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) and Cori Bush (D-MO) blamed U.S. military aid to Israel for contributing to the massive Hamas terror attack on Israel yesterday, which has left more than 700 Israelis dead. Tlaib also described Hamas’ actions as ‘resistance’ to Israeli ‘apartheid.’”

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