Netanyahu should be held accountable for failing to stop Oct. 7

In the aftermath of 9/11, Americans started asking hard questions to our politicians. How could they not see this coming? Did they have an inkling that something was about to happen? What did our intelligence communities miss? It became obvious that the FBI was tracking several of the hijackers in this country, and it was well known that Osama bin Laden had been on the CIA’s radar for some time. But a lack of communication combined with the refusal to take these threats seriously led to an environment where these attacks did happen.

It was a lesson that Americans and people around the world learned, as they all have had to deal with terrorism, both domestic and international within their own borders. It could be said that it wasn’t the U.S. that led the way, but Israel who had a long track record of foiling terror plots against Israelis both at home and abroad. It made the attacks on Oct. 7 all the more shocking.

We are coming up on the third anniversary of Oct. 7, and we just had Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu come to our country and talk down to us. And by us, I mean all of his critics from the mayor of New York City to ordinary Americans frustrated with the perceived influence of Israel on American foreign policy. It seems that Netanyahu is just trying to distract from his own failures to protect his own people.

In the aftermath of the attacks, I was sent a video of Charlie Kirk. Now, I am nowhere near Kirk politically speaking, but this particular video was intriguing to me. Like Kirk, I had visited the........

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