Former Vice President Mike Pence said during an interview over the weekend that being in Israel to learn about what happened on October 7 opened his eyes to see that it was not simply a terrorist attack but a full-scale “terrorist invasion.”
Pence, who was in Tel Aviv, made the remarks during a Sunday interview on CNN’s “State of the Union” with Jake Tapper when asked about his trip to Israel.
“One of the things I learned as we visited Sderot, where the terrorists literally took over the police station and murdered people in the streets, is that this was not simply a terrorist attack, but I believe it was a terrorist invasion,” Pence said.
“I mean, what I learned in our briefings in the south was that that fence line separating Israel from Gaza was breached in more than 90 different places simultaneously, paving the way for some 3,000 terrorists, heavily armed, to move into Israel,” he continued. “And, in fact, the briefings I received pointed out that, actually, the terrorists had sufficient armaments and supplies to literally march all the way here to Tel Aviv, all the way to Jerusalem. But, for the heroic efforts of police, IDF forces, and, frankly, courageous citizens, they were stopped from doing that.”
“So I really believe that what Israel is doing in Gaza today is absolutely essential,” he continued. “It is a response to an invasion that was launched with the intention of beginning the process of destroying the Jewish state of Israel. And I really do believe that this is a moment where America needs to speak with one voice that we will stand with Israel today and tomorrow and every day until they have won outright this fight and eliminated the threat of Hamas.”
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