Many American Jews that found themselves trapped this weekend by the sudden canceling of U.S. airlines flights in and out of Israel, members of Congress told Just the News. Days later, there still were no evacuation plans even as other countries extricated their own citizens.
The debacle – which Biden officials promised Congress in a closed-door briefing on Wednesday would soon be fixed – harkened painful memories of the same failures to help American citizens as Afghanistan was falling to the Taliban during the administration’s bungled withdrawal from that country in August 2021.