Governor Ron DeSantis Takes the Reins and Evacuates Nearly 300 Americans Stranded in Israel. Biden? Well...

Paula Bolyard : Oct 17, 2023
PJ Media

Americans who took the Biden administration up on its offer to help evacuate from Israel were, unfortunately, dumped in Cyprus, Athens, or Germany and warned that they would need to pay for the transportation costs and find their own way back to the US, which Lincoln Brown wrote about last week. They were required to sign promissory notes agreeing to repay the US government for travel costs.

[PJMedia.com] While the White House dithered around, sending Americans trapped in Israel to Cyprus and other foreign locations, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis cut through the bureaucratic red tape to fly nearly 300 Floridians home to safety on Sunday. (Screengrab Image)

Last week, just five days after the attack on Israel, which left thousands dead and injured, DeSantis signed an executive order "authorizing rescue operations in Israel to bring Floridians home," according to his X post on Oct. 12. "We will not leave our residents behind. To the many Floridians who are stuck in Israel, trying to get home—help is on the way."

Late Sunday night, he delivered on that promise, flying 179 adults, 91 children, and two dogs to Tampa, FL, from the war zone.

It was an emotional homecoming for many of the Floridians.

Chaim Gobioff told the "Today" show at the airport that their family had spent most of last week huddled in a bomb shelter. "So in a physical sense, we are very grateful that we are here. We are very blessed that we had a governor, we have a Hashem [God] who got us here. God took care of everything."

"These kids are having to dodge rockets," DeSantis told reporters at the airport. "These kids are having terrorists come after them. That's not the way the world should be."

The DeSantis administration worked with Project Dynamo to rescue those stranded after most commercial flights from Israel to the US were canceled in the wake of the horrific attack.

Project Dynamo CEO Bryan Stern said at the airport, "I can't thank the governor enough"...

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