This is the horrible reality of this war, and it's just in our -- no, it's not just a story. I'm a dad and a grandad, and it's just heartbreaking, the whole thing.
Michael Oren: “This is the horrible reality of this war, and it's just in our -- no, it's not just a story. I'm a dad and a grandad…”
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Oren expresses the emotional toll of the conflict and its impact on families.
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This is a war. And we're up against, again, an enemy who doesn't share any of our values and wants to destroy our civilization, wants to destroy our state.
The Israeli public opinion is running very high against providing this type of aid to the Palestinians. There is a deep feeling among the Israeli public that the Palestinian population in Gaza was highly supportive of Hamas.
Israel has to, on one hand, defend itself, defend the country, restore its internal security because we have 250,000 people who can't go back to their homes.
If the United States gets behind this effort to stop both of these extremisms together with Israel, there are tremendous opportunities here.