“We Stand With Israel. We Stand With Israel.”

This week, President Biden promised to “make sure Israel has what it needs to take care of its citizens, defend itself, and respond to this attack.”

U.S. Ambassadors Sheba Crocker and Michèle Taylor joined the Ambassador of Israel and members of Geneva’s international community in front of the United Nations to show solidarity with Israel and to condemn the appalling Hamas terrorist attacks. October 11, 2023. (Photo: United States Mission Geneva)

“You know, there are moments in this life — and I mean this literally — when the pure, unadulterated evil is unleashed on this world,” President Joe Biden said in an address to the nation on October 10, 2023. “The people of Israel lived through one such moment this weekend. The bloody hands of the terrorist organization Hamas — a group whose stated purpose for being is to kill Jews.”

President Joe Biden, in his address and other communications during the course of this week, hasn’t minced words concerning Israel.

Calling this week’s Hamas attack on Israel “an act of sheer evil,” President Biden mourned the, “more than 1,000 civilians slaughtered — not just killed, slaughtered — in Israel.”

“Among them, at least 14 American citizens killed,” Biden began, in a grim litany becoming all too familiar to those following news coverage of the crisis in Israel. “Parents butchered using their bodies to try to protect their children. Stomach-turning reports of being — babies being killed. Entire families slain. Young people massacred while attending a musical festival to celebrate peace — to celebrate peace. Women raped, assaulted, paraded as trophies.”

“Families hid their fear for hours and hours, desperately trying to keep their children quiet to avoid drawing attention,” Biden said. “And thousands of wounded, alive but carrying with them the bullet holes and the shrapnel wounds and the memory of what they endured.”

“There are still so many families desperately waiting to hear the fate of their loved ones, not knowing if they’re alive or dead or hostages,” the President pointed out. “Infants in their mothers’ arms, grandparents in wheelchairs, Holocaust survivors abducted and held hostage — hostages whom Hamas has now threatened to execute in violation of every code of human morality.”

Calling the attack “abhorrent” Biden lambasted Hamas forces for a brutality and bloodthirstiness that, “brings to mind the worst — the worst rampages of ISIS.”

“This is terrorism,” Biden said, frankly.