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November 27, 2018

The Only Effective Option for Stopping Hamas Is Off the Table—For Now

There’s no popular will for retaking Gaza.

By the time the second intifada began in 2001, Hamas and Fatah had built up a powerful terrorist infrastructure in the West Bank; only by reoccupying the territory did Israel succeed in putting an end to Palestinian attacks. Likewise, argues Evelyn Gordon, the only way to end Hamas’s rocket fire and other attacks would be to reoccupy the Gaza Strip—at a price that few Israelis today are willing to pay:

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November 27, 2018

  1. The Only Effective Option for Stopping Hamas Is Off the Table—For Now

    There’s no popular will for retaking Gaza.

  2. By Restoring Relations with Chad, Israel Has Gone a Long Way to Restoring Relations with the Rest of Africa

    A Muslim-majority country.

  3. European Courts Have Opened the Way for the Criminalization of Blasphemy

    While the continent remains complacent.

  4. In the Face of Persecution, Jews’ Greatest Obligation Is to Keep Living as Jews

    A bat mitzvah after a massacre.

  5. How Clement Attlee Saved a Jewish Child from Hitler

    And made possible his mother and brother’s immigration to England.