The international community is still reeling after Hamas launched a surprise air, sea, and land assault on Israel this past weekend that led to mass civilian casualties—the worst Israel has seen in its existence. In a pivot from The Eastern Front's usual content, Giselle, Dalibor, and Iulia discuss the massacre, the problem with the current discourse around the conflict, and its implications for US foreign policy. Is there a double standard applied to Israel that inhibits large swaths of the political left from condemning violence against the state? Has the current discussion around possibly shifting US attention to Israel from Ukraine reflect a larger inability for the US to respond to simultaneous crises? The co-hosts also reflect on the recent Slovakian and upcoming Polish parliamentary elections, and their implications for Ukraine.

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