Wednesday, October 11, 2:00 PM EDT

Join Jim to discuss this week's column, "No Lessons Learned" …

…The bottom line is that it was, to be sure, unpredictable that Hamas would engineer a surprise invasion of Israel, accompanied by the killing of hundreds of innocents and taking hundreds more hostage. But Israel should have known, and was warned, that the Palestinian pressure cooker was bound to explode. At the same time, Hamas should have known that Israel would respond with massive force that would result in the devastation of Gaza and the killing of thousands of innocent Palestinians. And they should have known that the US would do nothing to restrain Israel’s massive and deadly assaults.

While all parties share some degree of blame, I mainly fault successive US administrations for failing to play its self-proclaimed role of the promoter of human rights and peace. It has abdicated its responsibility diminishing itself to become Israel’s partner in the oppression of Palestinians. For shame.

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Read the full column: No Lessons Learned (aaiusa.org)