By: The Editorial Board – wsj.com – December 27, 2023 After the terrorist group brushed aside an Egyptian proposal over Christmas weekend, Hamas Politburo member Izzat al Rishq explained, “There can be no negotiations without a complete stop to the aggression”—an end to the war. On Dec. 20, in rejecting an Israeli offer, Politburo member Ghazi Hamad said Hamas is...

2023 was a rather bad year. Not as bad as 2024 is likely to be, or as 2020 was.

The joke is told about a poll taker who asks about ignorance and apathy in the country. “I don’t know, and I don’t care,” says the respondent.

I began writing this column on Dec. 7, a date that, as President Franklin Roosevelt said, “will live in infamy.”

You may believe that Israel’s response to October 7 is disproportionate. You may even believe that, on some level, the IDF is guilty of war crimes.

By: Yonah Jeremy Bob – wsj.com – December 10, 2023 Northern Gaza has been flattened. It isn’t just another combat zone. The area will need years of rebuilding before Palestinian civilians can live there. I saw the fallout from the war between Israel and Hamas during a recent trip with Israel Defense Forces to Gaza City, including the vast network...

October 7 should have been an open-and-shut case of moral condemnation. During peace and holiday, invading Hamas, gunmen murdered, tortured, mass raped, decapitated, and mutilated some 1,200 Israelis. The vast majority were unarmed women, children, infants, and the elderly.

Some movies are worth watching more than once. The one now playing in the Middle East isn’t one of them.

The transfer of hostages to the Red Cross comes as both Israel and Hamas accuse each other of violating a truce that was extended two days.

“Those who do not learn history are doomed to repeat it.” — George Santayana