Rarely has a foreign conflict with virtually no impact on people’s livelihoods, quality of healthcare, educational opportunities for their children and so forth exercised such sway over domestic politics.

“Israel is not starving children,” stated the Jewish state’s envoy to the United Nations in New York. “Israel is fighting Hamas terrorism, while Hamas uses civilians in Gaza as human shields.”

Former Israeli security officials say Hamas’s offer to place its weapons under a new Palestinian committee is designed to help the terror group survive and rebuild.

No amount of argument will stop a word that gives permission to hate.

The Board of Peace says implementation has entered the “hard phase,” but Israel insists there will be no real reconstruction, withdrawal or postwar order until Hamas is fully disarmed.

There are things that make life seem less like entertainment.

The new roadmap is not a replacement for Trump’s broader Gaza peace plan, but an attempt to turn it into a phased process of Israeli withdrawal, Palestinian governance and Hamas disarmament.

Israel has given a green light to the deployment of the International Stabilization Force (ISF), the “Peace Council,” and a technocratic administration in Gaza.

The global outrage came quickly when Israel was accused of killing athletes. The missing context came later.