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the longest war betweensrael and arabs since thend of the colict that set boundaries of israel back in 1949. it is also by far the deadliest, more than 1,5 israelis have been killed mostly during hamas' attack on october 7 and 250 others were abducted. more than 40,000 palestinians have bn killed in the counter attack. a wider r between israel and hamas and its allies is now unfolding, rectly with israel's invasion of lebanon and iran's bombardment of israel. the story in "the new york times" today as we said, protests and memorials taking place around the world today. statements from world leaders, including president biden with this statement tod. it's a lengthy one. on this day last year, the sun rose on what was supposed to be a joyish jewish holiday. by sunset, october 7 had become the deadliest day of the jewish people since the holocaustment one year later, vice president

harris and i remain fully committed to the safety of the jewish people, the security of israel and its right to exist. today and every day, the president said, i think of the hostages and their families. i have met the families of the hostages. i have grieved with them. they have been through hell. my administration has negotiated for the safe release of more than 100 hostages including americans. i believe that history will also remember october 7 as a dark day for the pestinian people because of the conflict that hamas unleashed that day. far too many civilians have suffered too much during this year of conflict and tens of thousands have been killed. the human toll de far worse by terrorists hiding among innocent people. we will not stop working to achieve a cease-fire deal in gaza that brings the hoss tappings home, allows for a surge in humanitarian aid to ease the suffering on the ground and assures israel's security and ends this w. that statement from president biden today on the one year anniversary of the hamas attack on israel.

getting your reaction in this first hour of "washington journal." your thoughts on this anniversary. it's 202-748-8000 for democrats to call in. republicans, 202-748-8001. independents, 202-748-8002. starting up in maine, bar harbor, maine, democra good morning. caller: hi, good morning. thank you. so i am 75 years old, and i am an american jew and i am a zionist. i have followed israel in the american press and in the israeli press for years. i have been opposed to netanyahu for deces. i think thapeople are not looked into the fact that he aligned mself with hamas against the palestinians because th netanyahu and hamas are opposed to two state solution.

i am heart broken about october 7, but what l up to i was netanyahu so involved with capturg the israeli supreme court thate ignored warnings about a hamas buildup from israeli troops and in the wake of oght 7 -- october 7, he could have gone before the world and said look, we told you these were dangerous people. now hp us get o hostages back. but insteade went on a disproportnate military respse. i think netanyahu has inserted himself into amerin politics in favor of donald trump before. i think he is doing it now. i think many republicans have wanted the united states to be in a shooting war with iran for a verlong time, a i think people who are tempted not to te for kamala harr because

of the issue of gaza are ignoring the trump would be much worse not only for the palestinians, not only for the israelis, but for the american people. host: before you g you said i am a signist. what --ionist. what does that mean today caller: to me that means that i am dedicated to there being a iseli state. i would prero see it with the 1948 borde. i prefero see it witut any jewi settlements on the west bank. if certain jewish ople wt to live near certain jewish holy sis, they c do so thin a palestinian state. i think that one of netanhu's wofersun -- wor sins is total support forhe settlements, which preside biden for decades has been opposed to the settlemts whi is one rean that his

relatiship with netanyahu has nobeen agood as itight b tetanya has alwayshumbed his nose at ameri becau he ha aipac, he has a lot of support from people who confuse netanyahu with the state of israel, just as se people might confuse trump with the united states. but no,hese are bad policie by a cynical politicn and we ve a choice between harris and trump,nd i think for every ngle issue, harris is a better choice. host: ouin bar harbor i maine, this is gar sterling virginia, republican. good morng. you are nex caller: good morning. thank you for taking m cal that's a grand -- you got on them shoamedders, john --

shouers. i got to agree with everything that lady said who cled bere me. i see a lot of hilistic behavior a it stas with the talin because whethey destrod the statues of buddha, that signed the death and enslavement of the ughurs. that's why we have much problems ove there. i don't know w when the taliban, they had 75 millimeter cannons and ey did them for two and three days. host: do you want to come to october 7 and this anniversary? caller: it's a terrible anniversary. beamin netanyahu, he has

always been arrogant and belligerent. i never thought of him as naive until he got caught on october 7. he emmass claited -- emasculated for over a year and a half before october 7. he destroyed his intelligence gathering nets work, the people on the ground that had their ears to the ground, that knew what was going on. he ignored them. it's a terrible thing thank you very much for your time, john. host: gary in sterling, virginia. cynthia, florida, independent. good morning. caller: hamas attacked on israel one year later. what about all of the israeli attacks over so many years on the palestinians?

hamas are obably not considered freedom fighters for some, but for some folks they sure we. or they are. it's a shame that america is taking these funds and supporting the gocide of the palestinians. they are killing those folks. it's a crusade. look at the weapons that they are using. i am telling you now, you are talking out one year later, anniversary that these nuts are celebrating? when look at what they've done over 70 years to the palestinians. host: who do you think is celebrating today? caller: i think the israelis, the zionists. i think that those -- the nations that are supporting it probably that idiot the white house, biden, and i am ashamed to be an african-american and

hear kamala speak to the pain of the israelis. speak to the pain of the palestinians. host: cynthia in florida. kamala harris, in an interview with 60 minute, set to air tonight on cbs, she talked about the middle east conflt, the u.s. influence in the middle east. here is about two minutes from that interview that's set to air tonight. [video clip] >> we supply israel with billions of dollars in military aid, and yet prime minister netanyahu seems to be charting his own course. th biden-harris administration has pressed him to agree to a cease-fire. he has resisted. you urged him not to go into lebanon. he went in anyway. he has promised t make iran pay for the missile attack and that has the potential of expanding

the war. does the u.s. have no sway over prime minister netanyahu? vice president harris: the aid that we have given israel allowed israel to defend itself against 200 ballistic missiles that were just meant to attack the israelis and the people of israel, and when we think about the threat that hamas, hezbollah presents, iran, i think that it is without any question our imperative to do what we can to allow israel to defend itself against those kinds of attacks. now the work that we do diplomatically with the leadership of israel is an ongoing pursuit around making clear our principles, which include the need for humanitarian aid, the need for this war to end, the need for a deal to be done which would release the hostages and create

a cease-fire. we are not going to stop in terps of putting that pressure on israel and in the region, including arab leaders. >> but it seems that prime minister netanyahu is not listening. vice president harris: bilker the work that we have done has resulted in a number of movements in that region by israel that were very much prompted by or a result of many things, including our advocacy for what needs to happen in the region. >> do we have a real close ally in prime minister netanyahu? vice president harris: i think with all due respect, the better question is do we have an important alliance between the american people and the israeli people? and the swer to that question is yes. host: kamala harris in that interview.

the face the nation showing excerpts of that interview, it's expected to air in its entirety tonight cbs. back to your phone calls on this october 7, 2024, looking back a year ago to th hamas attack on israel. everything that's ppened in the middle east since then taking your phone calls on phone lines split by political party. this is zh in rrisburg, pennsylvania. democrat good morni. caller: good morning. thanksor taking my call. i am 65 years old, the air force. these particular names have been associated with the words turmoil since my youth, and that netanyahu and putin. i agree with what most of the people have sa earlier. you guys do america a disservice when you frame stuff like this

without context, without historical rerence. i mean, like the one woman said, ese palestinians have been living in apartheid for 70 years. and from my understanding, netanyahu was paying hamas to keep a certain position, and like the one gentleman, the republican gentleman said, netanyahu put the reins on his intelligence people so they would be in the dark when this attack was supposed to happen. so i think it's -- it's the ent of a -- act of a guy who like trump knows once he is out of power, the wheels of justice will start turning again. he is going to do everything he can to stay out of jail. and just like thene woman said about we give billions of dollars to these people with

zero accountability. you know, we spend a couple dollars on food stamps programs and the republican house goes crazy, where is the money? where is the money? to me, the axis of evil. one lastoint, john. trump taking a billion dollars from a guy to move that embassy i believe started us down this path. host: a column in today's u.s.a. today, diana butu is a lawyer based in israel, previously served as legal advisor to the palestinian negotiating team during peace negotiations with israel. she writes this in her piece today. "unless or until the underlying causes of violence that we have been witnessing for the past year are addressed, palestinians

and israelis are doomed to unending death and sfering." president biden has the power to put region on a peaceful future but he has continued to flood israel of billions of dollars worth of weapons even as evidence mounted that israel is using them in vyings of -- violation of international law and contrary to the whether of the majority of americans who support a cease-fire and an end to weapons transfers to israel as long as the violence continues." she goes on to say, he has done so even after acknowledging israel has been engaging in bombing of civilians, giving israel a green light to continue killing and destruction, his failure to rein in israel's government andtop the blood shed in gaza has emboldened netanyahu to spread the war to lebanon dragging in iran, pushing the region to the terrifying precipice we fe and risking confrontation between iran and the united states which would be disastrous for everyone involv. intervention from the united

states and the international community is urgently needed, she writes, to avoid further escalation into a full-blown regional conflict. that in u.s.a. today if you want to read more. this is mark in indiana, republican. good morning. caller: good morning. thank you for taking my call. republican police officer. you got to remember the innocent people killed that day, the children, the ladies, the nean didn't do anything. our country is weak right now. and that's what disgusts me the most, people did nothing that day to go through what they did. everybody talks about trump here and there. this war wouldn't have happened, yeah, the war wouldn't have happened. i am not a big trump backer, but was i better off four years ago? absolutely. i say that for the innocent people who were killed, the people killed in our countries, the cities we can't travel, the borders are unsafe. our country is a joke.

she gets in, next 36 days, i believe it is, 35 days, we will see nothing and everything else, i waited so long this morning. those people did nothing wrong that day. innocent people were murdered, destroyed. the news media should reflect that, especially some military people calling in. you have to defend those people and everything else. that's why i am -- where i am at this morning. i hope we get major change in america because if it continues the way it goes right now, there won't be the respect of our police officers, military people, it's gone downhill in this administration. i want to thank you for your time this morning i appreciate it. hostin terms of one of the people from that day on october 7, maybe you saw this picture of this woman, 85-year-old yaffa adar,n imag one