Editorial report, im paul gigot. Israels military in a costly misfire on monday struck and killed seven humanitarian workers delivering aid in gaza. The deadly misstep has complicated an already strained relationship between israel9 and the United States which in recent weeks has grown more critical of the war. But despite idf, the idf calling the error a grave mistake, President Biden told Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in a phone call thursday that u. S. Policy toward gaza might change if israel does not do more to protect innocent civilians. White House National Security Communications adviser john kirby if on friday doubled down on that message. I think he was very clear9 with the Prime Minister yesterday. If we dont start seeing meaningful changes in the way israels prosecuting these operations and allowing for humanitarian assistance and working towards the hostage deal and a ceasefire, then were going to have to make changes in our gaza point. And that means. Conditioning aid
world. i think both sides of the aisle can agree that we definitely need to protect ourselves but we also need to make sure we are working on diplomacy to make sure it agrees with what they are developing over there. jon: speaking of defending ourselves, i remember when president reagan was destroyed for proposing what everyone thought was called the star wars missile defense. people are looking that and saying wow, we need more of it. since president reagan we haven t had presidents who have focused enough time and attention on defense. and the weapons we need to protect ourselves. there should be some weapon ability, we have to stop some of these missiles when they are going slowly they are easier to stop and they are not coming into our atmosphere. these are the type of things we ve got to do. we are now putting together the budget, let s make sure we have