The images are horrific.

On the 50th anniversary of the Yom Kippur War, the Islamic terrorist group killed more Jews in a single day than any since the Holocaust. This includes women, children, and the elderly. About 40 babies — some decapitated — were found by Israeli Defense Force (IDF) soldiers in a decimated kibbutz.

Congress must act NOW to stand with Israel, condemn Hamas and Hezbollah, and sanction the world’s leading exporter of terror — Iran!

Hamas continues to post social media videos celebrating their demonic assault on Israel. Almost certainly funded, trained, and armed by Iran, the terrorists chose the Jewish high holiday of Shemini Atzeret to attack.

While at least 2,000 terrorists breached Israel’s southwestern border fence along the Gaza Strip at 20 places or more, others used paragliders to soar over an outdoor Israeli music festival promoting peace. As they descended upon the large crowd, the terrorists began firing on innocent civilians.

Other terrorists flew further, landing at the edges of the parking lots, firing into cars and crowds of people desperately trying to escape. Yet more terrorists flew further, attacking houses in the area, kicking down doors and butchering those inside. Houses that could not be breached were simply burned to the ground with families screaming inside.

The carnage is sickening...

• A pregnant woman’s body lay by the roadside, her unborn child mercilessly carved out of her womb, left to slowly wither and die, still connected by its umbilical cord.
• Babies were beheaded.
• Toddlers were kicked around like bags of trash.
• Old women were dragged from their homes and beaten to death in the streets.
• Entire families were locked in their houses and burned alive.

Israeli Major General Itai Veruv said, "You see the babies, the mothers, the fathers, in their bedrooms, in their protection rooms and how the terrorist kills them … it is something that I never saw in my life. It's something that we used to imagine from our grandfathers, grandmothers in the pogroms in Europe."

But Hamas didn’t kill everyone they met. Other celebratory videos posted by the demonically inspired terrorists show them dragging screaming young women into captivity — “rewards” for the terrorists.

Hamas has many hostages, at least 11 of which are Americans. Hamas says they will kill a hostage for every bomb Israel drops trying to permanently uproot the Hamas infrastructure in Gaza.

What the world is witnessing is ISIS-level savagery, matching that of the Nazi regime that sought to eliminate the Jews.

It’s worth noting that Hamas chose October 7 as the date to attack. This marked 50 years since the Yom Kippur War. In October 1973, Arab states attacked seeking to wipe Israel and every Jew from the face of the planet.

Sadly, one month ago, on September 11, Joe Biden announced that he would unfreeze 6 billion dollars to the world’s leading exporter of terror — Iran.

According to John Kirby at the U.S. State Department, the funds were released to Qatar, and the U.S. is supposed to have the authority to allow Qatar to make payments to Iran’s vendors for humanitarian purposes that the U.S. must approve.

With this infusion of cash, any funds Iran previously had can now be used to fund terror.

On Monday, as Hamas was still actively engaged in their terror operation, the Qatari government blamed ISRAEL for the horror!

Given Qatar’s statement, it remains to be seen if that nation will obey the U.S. directives and restrictions on those 6 billion dollars. The Qatari government could still hand Iran whatever they request. The Arab world is waiting to see if the U.S. has the resolve to stand with Israel.

Tuesday afternoon in a televised speech, more than 72 hours into the war, Joe Biden admitted that Hamas has one purpose — to eliminate Israel and kill Jews. Biden condemned Hamas but never once mentioned Iran.

Congress MUST now do 4 things:

1. Issue a joint resolution to send a message around the world that America stands with Israel.
2. Issue a joint resolution CONDEMNING Iran as well as the Hamas and Hezbollah terrorists they trained and armed for this massacre.
3. Sanction Iran to the fullest extent possible.
4. Make it clear to any regime that if they attack Israel, they will become OUR enemy, as well.

Please fax Congress now and sign our petition. Congress is in session and able to vote to STAND WITH ISRAEL AND AGAINST IRANIAN-SPONSORED TERRORISM.

Please pray for Israel.

Lord, deliver us; may the King answer us on the day we call (Psalm 20:9).

Sincerely,

Mat Staver
Chairman
Christians in Defense of Israel

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Sources:

Kredo, Adam. “Member of Iranian Influence Network Visited White House Five Times.” The Washington Free Beacon, October 3, 2023. https://freebeacon.com/national-security/member-of-iranian-influence-network-visited-biden-white-house-five-times/.

Said, Summer, Benoit Faucon, and Stephen Kalin. “Iran Helped Plot Attack on Israel over Several Weeks.” WSJ, Oct. 8, 2023. https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/iran-israel-hamas-strike-planning-bbe07b25.

‌Smith, Lee. “High-Level Iranian Spy Ring Busted in Washington.” Tablet, October 1, 2023. Tabletmag.com/sections/israel-middle east/articles/iran-spy-ring-robert-malley-lee-smith.

Solomon, Jay. “Inside Iran’s Influence Operation.” Semafor, September 26, 2023. Semafor.com/article/09/25/2023/inside-irans-influence-operation.