Salena Zito joined the Washington Examiner in 2016 as a Pittsburgh-based columnist and reporter and is also a columnist at the New York Post. She is the author of The Great Revolt. She previously wrote for the Atlantic and spent the last 11 years at the Pittsburgh Tribune Review as both a reporter and a columnist covering national politics.
Rep. Brian Mast said he is resolute in his decision to wear his military uniform from his service in the Israeli Defense Forces on Capitol Hill. Mast said he made the decision following his colleague Rep. Rashida Tlaib hoisting the Palestinian flag outside her office and the former Hamas chief Khaled Mashal calling for a day of rage in support of the Palestinians — both happening after a surprise attack by Hamas terrorists killed thousands of Israelis on Oct. 7.
Mast said he has not spoken to Tlaib since he wore his uniform. However, he has watched her dodge reporters’ questions in the halls, saying, “I've seen the video of her running away from answering for the atrocities, hiding behind whatever staff was with her, and hiding from answering for these atrocities and remaining silent."
Mast said to imagine if the United States said after Pearl Harbor, “We need to be proportional and exercise restraint.” “You have to eliminate the threat,” Mast said. “Not to scare the threat, not to partially eliminate the threat. … You can’t buy them, you can’t give them more land, you can’t give them more money. You have to destroy the threat with the same resolve that you would destroy Nazis.”
He said he remembers hearing it all play out, the tourniquets being placed on what was left of each of his legs and what was left of his left arm and wrenching them down and being transported into a medevac helicopter and seeing men saluting him.By the time his father was able to see him, Mast admitted he wasn’t in a good place. Yet his father being his father, Mast said, he egged him on to think about figuring out what his purpose was — “and to get at it.
“It wasn’t hard to figure out I was former U.S. military. I had an Army Ranger baseball cap on, and my prosthetics were clearly visible beneath my shorts. When we got home, I told Brianna I was going to find a way to really support Israel,” he said of the conversation he had with his wife. Mast spent the next few months calling the consulates, embassies, and Israel support groups. “Ultimately, they said you can volunteer with the military, and they weren't sure what to make of it because I don't know that they’ve ever had anybody that disabled or handicapped to volunteer that way,” he said.
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