Israeli leaders such as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu “look like shells of their former selves,” commentator Morgan Ortagus says, following meetings in Israel earlier this month.
But Ortagus, who was State Department spokesperson under President Donald Trump, says the weariness extends to the people of Israel, many of whom remain “traumatized” from the Hamas terrorist attacks Oct. 7.
“The very existence of the state of Israel is threatened whenever they are attacked,” she says, adding, “It’s a tiny country. It’s a tiny people.”
“So when they are attacked, it’s existential to their surviva,” Ortagus says. “And we of course know that more Jews were killed on Oct. 7 than on any other day since the Holocaust. So I know that has to weigh with the leadership.”
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