{"id":2299625,"date":"2024-07-18T16:26:01","date_gmt":"2024-07-18T20:26:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/israeli-american-hostages-family-highlights-another-biden-failure\/"},"modified":"2024-07-18T16:28:37","modified_gmt":"2024-07-18T20:28:37","slug":"family-of-israeli-american-hostage-blames-biden-for-failure-to-secure-release","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/family-of-israeli-american-hostage-blames-biden-for-failure-to-secure-release\/","title":{"rendered":"Family of Israeli-American hostage blames Biden for failure to secure release"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffamily-of-israeli-american-hostage-blames-biden-for-failure-to-secure-release%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2299625&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Omer Neutra, the first-born\u200d son of Ronen and Oma Neutra, was\u200b born one month before 9\/11 and\u2062 turned 22 on October 14 while being held \u2064hostage by Hamas\u200c in Gaza. His family has been living a nightmare for\u200b 286 days, not knowing if he is alive. Oma Neutra\u2063 pleaded for his \u2063safe\u2064 return at a\u200b Republican National \u2062Convention \u2062event in Milwaukee. Omer is one of eight U.S.\u200b citizens\u2064 taken prisoner by Hamas in a brutal attack on Israel that left many dead \u200dand missing. The Neutras did not mention President Biden in\u2063 their pleas, criticizing his handling of the crisis as feckless and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/rancher-biden-stopping-border-wall-to-hurt-trump-legacy-only-hurting-us\/\" title=\"Rancher: Biden Stopping Border Wall To Hurt Trump \u2018Legacy,\u2019 Only \u2018Hurting\u2019 Us\">politically driven<\/a>. Former President Trump has expressed support for the hostages,\u200c questioning the lack of outrage over the American \u2062citizens who \u200dwere victims of the attack. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/by-thanking-george-floyd-for-his-sacrifice-is-nancy-pelosi-valuing-death-over-life\/\" title=\"By Thanking George Floyd For His \u2018Sacrifice,\u2019 Is Nancy Pelosi Valuing Death Over Life?\">political implications<\/a> of \u2063Biden\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/senate-overwhelmingly-votes-to-keep-u-s-embassy-in-jerusalem\/\" title=\"Senate Overwhelmingly Votes to Keep U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem\">foreign policy decisions<\/a> on \u200dthe Middle East conflict\u2063 and his support among Jewish voters are also discussed, raising concerns about his \u2063reelection prospects.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>MILWAUKEE &mdash; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.timesofisrael.com\/us-israeli-hostages-family-fights-to-keep-american-public-interested-in-fellow-citizen\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Omer Neutra<\/a> was born one month before 9\/11. On Oct. 14, this first-born son of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.timesofisrael.com\/taken-captive-omer-neutra-long-island-born-natural-leader\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Ronen and Oma Neutra<\/a> turned 22, presumably beneath the streets of Gaza as a Hamas hostage.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>For 286 days, New York&rsquo;s Neutra family has lived a nightmare unimaginable to most.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Imagine, over nine months not knowing whether your son is alive, waking up every morning praying that he, too, is waking up every morning, that he is strong and surviving,&rdquo; Oma Neutra <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=LU-hw1lYeEE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">told<\/a> the thousands assembled Wednesday evening in downtown Milwaukee for the third day of the Republican National Convention. The crowd responded, multiple times with an increasingly desperate chant: &ldquo;Bring them home! Bring them home!&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Oma&rsquo;s son, (the name Omer means the measure of the harvest&rsquo;s <a href=\"https:\/\/aroodawakening.tv\/what-is-an-omer\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">first fruits<\/a> in Hebrew), is among eight U.S. citizens taken prisoner by the terrorist group Hamas in Oct. 7&rsquo;s barbaric attack on Israel. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ajc.org\/IsraelHamasWar\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">terrorists raped, tortured, and murdered some 1,200 people<\/a> in an unholy war to erase the Jews from existence and wipe Israel off the map. Hamas, long and rightly recognized by the U.S. government as a terrorist group, took 251 hostages in the attack. Some are dead, at least 116 are unaccounted for, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-middle-east-67053011\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">according to<\/a> the BBC.&nbsp; &nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Twisted Political Calculus&nbsp;<\/h2>\n<p>The Neutras didn&rsquo;t mention President Joe Biden in their entreaties to the world. They didn&rsquo;t have to. The Democrat&rsquo;s failures on this front, driven by what many critics see as a twisted political calculus, are well known. Seeking to walk an untenable tightrope between the American Jewish voters Democrats have long taken for granted and the Muslim vote it craves in swing state Michigan and elsewhere, the Biden administration&rsquo;s handling of the crisis in the Middle East has been feckless at best, and cravenly criminal at times. Biden has lashed out at Israel, one of the United States&rsquo; truest allies, for its war to eliminate Hamas as a threat in Gaza. He has feebly tried to placate the extreme Islamists whose rallying cry, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ajc.org\/translatehate\/From-the-River-to-the-Sea\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">&ldquo;From the River to the Sea,<\/a>&rdquo; is the actual call for a 21st century genocide of the Jews. He has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2024\/05\/08\/biden-threatens-suspension-military-aid-israel\/#:~:text=America%20Election%202024-,Biden%20says%20he%20will%20cut%20off%20offensive%20weapons%20if%20Israel,Israel%20in%20the%20Gaza%20war.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">threatened to cut off<\/a> the promised military aid to help Israel protect itself in a proxy war <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/world\/iran-attack-israel-israel-war-gaza-hamas-drone-missile-rcna147784\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">funded and fueled by Iran<\/a>, no doubt with some of the money from the <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/opinion\/white-house\/477666-obama-should-apologize-for-shameful-cash-payment-to-iran\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">pallets of cash<\/a> Biden&rsquo;s old boss Barack Obama delivered to the world&rsquo;s <a href=\"https:\/\/jinsa.org\/iran-still-a-state-sponsor-of-terrorism-and-growing-bolder\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">leading sponsor of terrorism<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Biden&rsquo;s feeble and politically driven foreign policy provision could prove costly for his hopes for a second term &mdash; if indeed he remains the candidate of a party that no longer wants him around. A <a href=\"https:\/\/jewishinsider.com\/2024\/06\/ajc-survey-finds-significant-majorities-of-jews-concerned-about-antisemitism-support-israel\/?email=467cb6399cb7df64551775e431052b43a775c749&amp;emaila=12a6d4d069cd56cfddaa391c24eb7042&amp;emailb=054528e7403871c79f668e49dd3c44b1ec00c7f611bf9388f76bb2324d6ca5f3&amp;utm_source=Sailthru&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=06.10.24%20Evening%20Report%20JE%20CMS\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">poll<\/a> last month by the American Jewish Committee shows the alarm among Jews over surging antisemitism in America, accelerated by the American left. Biden&rsquo;s support among Jewish voters hasn&rsquo;t taken a beating, but it is down, with 61 percent of Jewish voters supporting the Democrat compared to the 68 percent that backed him in 2020. In what was once considered and still very well may turn out to be a tight presidential election, a 7 percent decline in support in any voting bloc could prove fatal.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Talking with Jewish voters in Michigan, &ldquo;I&rsquo;ve had a couple of people say point blank, &lsquo;How could any Jew vote for a Democrat?&rsquo;&rdquo; Troy Zukowski, the West Michigan chair of the Michigan Jewish Democrats, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2024\/06\/23\/politics\/joe-biden-jewish-voters\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">told<\/a> CNN last month. &ldquo;I&rsquo;m not so concerned about Jews who may vote for Trump. I&rsquo;m more concerned about those who may vote for third party spoiler candidates or not vote at all.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<h2>&lsquo;Where is the Outrage?&rsquo;<\/h2>\n<p>Ronen Neutra told GOP convention attendees that former President Donald Trump personally called the family right after the attack. He said the Republican presidential candidate stands with the hostages.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;During the brutal Oct. 7 attack on Israel, over 1,200 people were slaughtered. Of them 45 were American citizens,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;Where is the outrage?&rdquo;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Trump has lambasted Biden for his vacillating on Israel, saying the president &ldquo;abandoned&rdquo; one of America&rsquo;s top allies. Still, in an <a href=\"https:\/\/ny1.com\/nyc\/all-boroughs\/news\/2024\/05\/09\/trump-israel-biden-jewish-voters-hamas-spectrum-news-interview\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">interview<\/a> in May with Spectrum News North Carolina, Trump said he can&rsquo;t understand why a majority of Jews stick with Democrats.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I think maybe they&rsquo;ll change their mind, but they&rsquo;ve been wedded to Democrats for you know, for 50 years, probably more than that. And there&rsquo;s been no president has ever done anything close to what I&rsquo;ve done for Israel,&rdquo; he said.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Neutras just want their &ldquo;beautiful son&rdquo; back.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>As the Times of Israel <a href=\"https:\/\/www.timesofisrael.com\/taken-captive-omer-neutra-long-island-born-natural-leader\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reported,<\/a> Omer opted to join the Israeli army after a gap year in Israel in which he delayed attending Binghamton University in New York. Ronen Neutra told CBS News that his son wanted to work toward peace in the region.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Oma Neutra said she prays <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=Psalm%2023&amp;version=NIV\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Psalm 23<\/a> everyday in the unbearable absence. &ldquo;The Lord is my shepherd, I lack nothing&hellip; Even though I walk through the darkest valley, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Omer,&rdquo; the grieving mother called out to her son from the packed convention hall. &ldquo;We love you. We won&rsquo;t stop fighting for you.&rdquo;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The crowd answered, &ldquo;Bring them home! Bring them home!&rdquo;<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>      Matt Kittle is a senior elections correspondent for The Federalist. An award-winning investigative reporter and 30-year veteran of print, broadcast, and online journalism, Kittle previously served as the executive director of Empower Wisconsin.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Omer Neutra, born shortly before 9\/11, turned 22 on Oct. 14 while being held hostage by Hamas in Gaza. His family has endured nearly nine months of uncertainty and fear. Omer is one of eight U.S. citizens taken prisoner by Hamas in a brutal attack on Israel. The Neutra family did not mention President Biden in their pleas for help, criticizing his handling of the crisis in the Middle East. Former President Trump has expressed support for the hostages and criticized Biden&#8217;s approach to Israel. 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