“A date that will live in infamy” was how Franklin Delano Roosevelt described December 7 1941 — the day that Japan attacked America at Pearl Harbor, killing 2,403 US personnel, including 68 civilians.
In response, the US launched an all-out war on Japan that culminated in the use of the atomic bomb. It is widely estimated that about 70,000 people were killed in Hiroshima alone.
For Israel, October 7 2023 is a date that will live in infamy. The Hamas terror attacks killed about 1,200 people, most of them civilians — and more than 240 hostages were taken. Israel’s ferocious response to the Hamas attacks is widely believed, so far, to have killed more than 11,500 people in Gaza.
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