Members of the local Jewish community are praying for peace after what the White House described as terrorist attacks in Israel.
"There are those of you in this room who have lost family and friends and are making difficult phone calls back to Israel," Tye Gregory from the Israeli-American Council said to the congregation. "Our hearts go out to you."
"This assault on these children, on these grandmoms, on these families, is something that takes us to a different threshold of how we deal with this subject," Pelosi said."Diplomatically, militarily, in every way, we stand with Israel," Pelosi announced."In Gaza, my family has been struggling to survive there, and it's so many mixed feelings when we see outbursts of violence," said Zakout.
Zakout believes racism is a side effect of the conflict, something he has encountered firsthand, ever since 9/11.His life experience would shape him into one of the organizers of Sunday’s protest outside the Israeli consulate in the"This is over 75 years of brutal occupation, over 15 years of siege on Gaza and really, we should question why we’re aligning ourselves with a state that continues apartheid practices.
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