A few days before Thanksgiving, the Atlanta City Council weighed in again on the Israel-Hamas war, passing a 12-0 resolution in support of calls for a ceasefire voiced by The Carter Center nearly a month prior.
The measure also called for “the establishment of humanitarian corridors,” the return of all hostages and the “restoration of essential services” in Gaza, where humanitarian groups estimate that up to 80 percent of the 2.2 million residents have been displaced as a result of the war.
The council’s Nov. 20 vote was panned by Anat Sultan-Dadon, Israel’s consul general for the Southeast U.S. in Atlanta, who blasted the body for failing to mention Oct. 7 attacks that left 1,200 Israelis dead and 240 abducted, precipitating the country’s devastating military retaliation.
“The shameful resolution neglects to mention one key word: Terror. As if terror has nothing to do with the current war that the Hamas terror organization started on Oct. 7, in its’ murderous attack during which thousands of Hamas terrorists infiltrated Israeli towns and communities in Southern Israel, slaughtering, torturing, raping, mutilating, dismembering, beheading and murdering everyone and anyone that they could — from babies to the elderly. Even unborn babies were not spared Hamas’ monstrous crimes,” Ms. Sultan-Dadon said in a lengthy statement (printed in full below).
In the early days of the conflict, the city council had issued a resolution condemning “Hamas’s acts of terror” and recognizing Israel’s right to defend itself after the Oct. 7 attacks.
Last Thursday, Israel agreed to a temporary pause in fighting designed to recover some of the 240 Israeli hostages abducted when Hamas launched its surprise attack.
Over the last week, dozens of Israeli women and children held as hostages were released in exchange for a higher number of Palestinian prisoners. According to the consulate’s daily news…
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