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Mitchell Bard is a foreign-policy analyst and an authority on U.S.-Israel relations. He has written and edited 22 books, including The Arab Lobby, Death to the Infidels: Radical Islam’s War Against the Jews; After Anatevka: Tevye in Palestine; and Forgotten Victims: The Abandonment of Americans in Hitler’s Camps.

Though critics pretend otherwise, Jerusalem has exercised restraint that no other military would. It has bent over backward to protect civilians—at enormous strategic and political cost.
In addition to the human cost, the occupation of the coastal enclave contributed to Israel’s public-relations problems, which started long before Oct. 7, 2023.
Every moment spent “consulting” or waiting for the next round of negotiations is a death sentence. Hamas knows this.
The facts no longer matter. This is a moment of political faith, not of reason.
Its goals have not changed: acquire nuclear weapons, destroy Israel, dominate the Middle East and spread Islamism worldwide. American and Israel just slowed that down for now.
Think about it: If Israelis wanted to eradicate Palestinian Arabs, why did they agree to coexist beside such an entity on at least 10 separate occasions from 1937 to the present?
Its entanglement with Qatar, where it has a campus in Doha, is deep, longstanding and influential. And that’s a problem.
He is pulling the strings in the Mideast and still dreams of cutting a deal with Tehran. He tried before. He’ll fail again.
Contrary to the image of a population being erased, demographics show otherwise and contradict rumors of famine.
The stakes today are higher, but so are the consequences of inaction.
When it comes to Israel, the steering of Washington policy has seemingly gone into reverse.
This isn’t another business transaction; it’s a confrontation with a theocratic regime that sees nuclear weapons as Divine instruments of victory.