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By: A7 Staff
Mike Sapraicone, Republican Conservative candidate for US Senate in New York and retired New York detective, spoke to Arutz Sheva – Israel National News, during his visit to Israel about what he learned about October 7th only when he arrived here, on his opinion about Hamas and US politics, and his solution for “encouraging understanding” between politicians.
Sapraicone says that it was important for him to visit Israel “and try to understand what went on here and actually have ‘my boots on the ground,’ to see what was going on here. We got in about 4:00 a.m. on Monday morning and we haven’t stopped since then. We were able to go down South and we were at a kibbutz and saw the devastation there and the whole village destroyed. This was the first time I actually understood what went on. People were saying that Hamas and the Palestinians came in, and I didn’t know what that meant. They showed us that the Palestinians came in that morning with their bags of clothes in order to move in and take over places. They were very much part of the killing. That’s not part of the story that I think I got as an American. I didn’t understand that at all.
“We’re seeing all these protests going on at home and on the college campuses. It’s about ‘protect Palestine, protect Palestine.’ They were murderers, they were actual murderers. We were able to look over to Gaza, maybe 100 yards from where were standing, and it was just unbelievable. Earlier that day we had been in a small village that was one of the first villages that was attacked and we saw that this was a village with older senior citizens and they actually had maps that were pointing to where they were going, and what their scheme was.
They were going to attack seniors, who couldn’t get out of the shelters. All the houses were burnt out and the bullets were shot into the safe rooms. There were red marks on the houses to show where people had been killed. Then we went up towards Nova and we were able to see the actual shelter where Hersh Goldberg-Polin was fighting for his life. They were throwing grenades out of that shelter and that’s where he lost his arm and then was taken hostage. We just got in that morning, right after they had been found. What a disgrace that is! If Hamas really wanted a ceasefire, I don’t understand why they killed those hostages. Maybe they feel they have nothing to lose. I’m trying to understand that more and more. This isn’t just a war against the country; it’s a religious war,” explains Sapraicone.
Sapraicone continued his visit up north, to an area he describes as, “Very quiet. As we drove into the town, there was nobody there; the town was abandoned. We went to the police station, and I spoke to the police. We had to put on vests and helmets. They told us that by the time the siren goes off, it’s usually too late because we’re so close to Lebanon. You hear an explosion and then the siren. Just after we left there, we got a notice that 14 missiles had been dropped on the area where we were just 30 minutes earlier.”
