Your October 7th is like our September 11th, but don't make the same mistakes we made.
Thus Joe Biden in Tel Aviv to Benjamin Netanyahu: «The anger you feel is the same that the United States felt after September 11th. Shock, pain and all-consuming anger. Justice must be done, but don't let anger consume you. Because of that anger the US made mistakes after September 11th , don't make the same mistakes as us."
The priority, the US president told the Israeli prime minister, is " to guarantee the return of the hostages alive ". The choices, he explained, «are never easy and there is always a price to pay because they require an honest evaluation. The majority of Palestinians are not Hamas", indeed, "the Palestinians suffer because of Hamas".
Biden said he was sure that Israel was not behind the attack on the hospital in Gaza: "I say this based on the data shown to me by my Department of Defense."
The attack on Hamas , defined in the same way as ISIS and Nazism, is harsh. Biden also announced an "unprecedented" package of aid for the defense of Israel and 100 million dollars in US funds for humanitarian assistance in Gaza and the West Bank : "This money - he said - will support over a million displaced people for the conflict and emergency needs in Gaza."
Biden left Ben Gurioni airport in the afternoon on board his Air Force One: a few minutes later the firing of rockets from Gaza towards the central part of Israel resumed .
(Unioneonline/L)