E. Faye Williams: Our country has given Netanyahu too many passes

ISRAELI PRIME MINISTER BENJAMIN NETANYAHU (TriceEdneyWire.com)—Almost everybody who delivers a speech, anywhere we go, somebody seems to be quoting Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Obviously, somebody is not hearing what he said or doesn’t understand what he meant. For starters, let’s go back to his speech on America’s war against the Vietnam War. It was exactly 1 year before he was assassinated, he spoke about purveyors of war—something we’re facing today. He said in his Riverside Church speech in New York called “Beyond Viet Nam: A Time to Break the Silence”, he warned us about the perils of war. He tried to warn us to turn war toward social justice, and said, “There comes a time when silence is betrayal.” That time has come for me to no lon­ger be quiet on the Israel-Hamas War. I recognize the horror of what hap­pened to the Israeli people who died or were kidnapped last October, rather than turn away from continuous war, Israel’s leader chose to oversee the killing of more than 32,000 innocent people to pay for what Hamas did. Today, innocent parents are paying with the lives of their children. These children had nothing to do with what happened in...