“I know you feel like there’s that black hole in the middle of your chest. You feel like you’re being sucked into it. The survivor’s remorse, the anger, the questions of faith in your soul. Staring at that empty chair, sitting Shiva. The first Sabbath without them.”
Said President Biden, quoted in “Biden, in Israel, hits notes of loyalty, emotion — and caution/In an extraordinary moment, an 80-year-old president flies into a war zone” (WaPo).
He met Israeli first responders and families affected by the Hamas attack… “God love ya,” he told one survivor….
At one point, Biden could be heard recounting the story of when his wife and children were injured in a car accident. He whispered throughout….