How should the US respond to the Israel-Palestine crisis? Our panel weighs in | Panelists

Joe Biden said on Monday that the American people stand shoulder-to-shoulder with Israelis'

It now seems that the Middle East is poised on the edge of a broader regional war. Whether or not this was the goal of the Hamas invasion of towns and cities deep inside Israel, it is the result. Israel has suffered its deadliest day since the state's founding, and the gruesome, unspeakable images of whole families shot in their homes and kidnapped Israeli children, women, youth and the elderly have galvanized almost the entire country in support of an overwhelming use of force against the Gaza Strip.

Joshua Leifer is a member of the Dissent editorial board and a contributing editor at Jewish Currents

Alex Kane is a senior reporter at Jewish Currents

Yousef Munayyer is head of the Palestine/Israel program at the Arab Center in Washington DC

Libby Lenkinski is an activist and the vice-president for public engagement at the New Israel Fund

Noura Erakat is an associate professor at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, and the author of Justice for Some: Law and the Question of Palestine

Diala Shamas is a senior staff attorney with the Center for Constitutional Rights