Several friends and I recently wrote to Virginia Senators Tim Kaine and Mark Warner, urging them to support Israel’s war against Hamas terrorists. We appreciated their detailed responses but were appalled by their minimal, judgmental support for Israel, poor grasp of reality and focus on Palestinian suffering.

Senator Warner is Chairman of the Intelligence Committee and “monitors the situation closely.” Senator Kaine serves on the Armed Services and Foreign Affairs Committees. Both should understand the situation better than their very similar comments suggest, especially Sen. Kaine’s much longer letter.

* Both acknowledged that Gaza-based Hamas terrorists inflicted “horrific” attacks on Israel last October 7. Senator Warner noted that Hamas’s goal is “the complete annihilation of Israel.” Both mentioned the 240 hostages but said nothing about Hamas kidnapping babies, children, women and sick elderly people, starving, sexually abusing or murdering many of them, and making absurd demands for their release.

Neither mentioned Hamas’s decades of suicide bombings, rocket attacks and other murders – nor the scope of the barbaric October 7 atrocities: 1,200 butchered, 5,400 maimed, babies beheaded, children and adults burned alive, limbs chopped off so that children and parents would bleed to death in agony, women sexually mutilated before being murdered, and much more. Every act was a brutal pre-planned war crime that the terrorists proudly recorded on GoPros and cell phones.

* Mr. Kaine co-sponsored Senator Jeanne Shaheen’s resolution “condemning the use of sexual violence and rape as a weapon of war.”

We applaud this. But the resolution sanitizes what happened on October 7. It wasn’t “just” rape. It was rampant, systematic, strongly encouraged gang-rape of hundreds of women and pre-teens. These butchers cut some victims’ breasts off and murdered some mid-rape. Why gloss that over?

* The senators briefly acknowledged that Israel has........

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