To Fight Terrorism, Trump Should Follow Ike’s Example
When people aren’t reminded of what’s true and not, what’s right and wrong, they lose their bearings
By Andrew R. Arthur on January 15, 2025
Ike at Ohrdruf
Gen. Eisenhower views the remains of people murdered by the SS at Ohrdruf Concentration Camp in 1945.
A January 14 commentary by Daniel Flesch in RealClear Politics details a number of terror plots planned or carried out in the United States in the name of “intifada” since the October 7, 2023, Hamas attacks on southwest Israel. A few of those cases are unfamiliar, even to me. That’s likely because the media hasn’t covered them and the Biden-Harris administration won’t talk about them. That’s a critical mistake because it lulls the public into a false sense of security and could lead other misguided people to fall into the thrall of radicalism and plan similar actions. To rectify this, President-elect Trump should take a page from one of his predecessors, Dwight D. Eisenhower.
The October 7 Attacks, and Their Aftermath. Most of you likely need little background on the October 7 attacks, but here’s how Secretary of State Antony Blinken recounted the events of that day one year later, last October:
On October 7, 2023, more than 1,200 men, women and children, including 46 Americans and citizens of more than 30 countries, were slaughtered by Hamas — the largest massacre of Jews since the Holocaust. Girls and women were sexually assaulted. The depravity of Hamas’s crimes is almost unspeakable.
Hamas also took 254 people hostage that day, including 12 Americans. Four of those Americans — Hersh Goldberg-Polin, Itay Chen, Judy Weinstein, and Gad Haggai — were murdered by Hamas. Four were released through an agreement the United States negotiated last November, but four remain in captivity in Gaza: Edan Alexander, Keith Siegel, Sagui Dekel-Chen, and Omer Neutra. There are also an estimated 97 other hostages who remain held in Gaza today. They include men, women, young boys, young girls, two babies, and elderly people from more than 25 nations.
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