Netanyahu’s strategy of preventing Palestinian statehood was meant to protect Israel. Instead, Gershon Baskin argues, it helped preserve the conditions that produced October 7.
The war that began on the morning of October 7 remains unresolved. Hamas has not been disarmed; its future in Gaza remains unsettled, and the question of who will govern Gaza remains unanswered.
Why we chose Naama’s words for our October 7 cover, and why I still owe an apology to families who contacted us.
The Israeli prime minister is making the New York mayor a central bogeyman this election season.
Hamas official Ghazi Hamad said October 7 came at a heavy price, but pointed to Israel’s isolation and renewed Palestinian statehood push as strategic gains.
Three years after October 7, the attack has revived a fundamental Zionist question: Can the Jewish people entrust their security and future to others?
What is at stake in the coming years is not only the physical survival of Israel against enormous challenges, but the preservation of our most basic DNA: responsibility, service, loyalty.
The fourth founding begins with what died on October 7: the idea that the state alone could keep Israelis safe. The onslaught did more than murder and kidnap; it forced a Jewish reckoning.
You didn’t ask who was Right or Left. You didn’t ask who was for or against. You went out to defend human beings. To defend the residents of the Gaza border area. To defend the country.
We learned, at a price no one should ever have to pay, that Never Again is a hope. Saying it cannot make it true.
Since October 7, 4,375 churches have placed 1,200 Israeli flags on their front lawns to memorialize the victims, demonstrating that Hamas’s massacre also revealed who Israel’s friends are.
