MILWAUKEE — Omer Neutra was born one month before 9/11. On Oct. 14, this first-born son of Ronen and Oma Neutra turned 22, presumably beneath the streets of Gaza as a Hamas hostage.
For 286 days, New York’s Neutra family has lived a nightmare unimaginable to most.
“Imagine, over nine months not knowing whether your son is alive, waking up every morning praying that he, too, is waking up every morning, that he is strong and surviving,” Oma Neutra told the thousands assembled Wednesday evening in downtown Milwaukee for the third day of the Republican National Convention. The crowd responded, multiple times with an increasingly desperate chant: “Bring them home! Bring them home!”
Oma’s son, (the name Omer means the measure of the harvest’s first fruits in Hebrew), is among eight U.S. citizens taken prisoner by the terrorist group Hamas in Oct. 7’s barbaric attack on Israel. The terrorists raped, tortured, and murdered some 1,200 people in an unholy war to erase the Jews from existence and wipe Israel off the map. Hamas, long and rightly recognized by the U.S. government as a terrorist group, took 251 hostages in the attack. Some are dead, at least 116 are unaccounted for, according to the BBC.
Twisted Political Calculus
The Neutras didn’t mention President Joe Biden in their entreaties to the world. They didn’t have to. The Democrat’s failures on this front, driven by what many critics see as a twisted political calculus, are well known. Seeking to walk an untenable
