We cannot be so hard-hearted to deny Palestinian suffering, exacerbated by Israeli operational failures, but we cannot let Hamas destroy us.

Only when Palestinians are prepared to see a future state as their home — rather than a launching point for renewed struggle — will peace be possible.

No one could have known for certain back in 2005 what would happen next, how just two years later, Hamas would violently seize control of Gaza and that it would lead to the October 7 massacre.

Recognizing Palestine today, in the midst of a war that Hamas started on October 7 nearly two years ago, and while it still refuses to acknowledge Israel’s right to exist, is not a contribution to peace.

Nearly two years after Oct. 7, the government still cannot articulate how this war will be brought to a close.

Despite its problems, North America’s Higher Education system remains the most marvelous laboratory for instilling knowledge, nurturing ideas, generating innovations, and cultivating young minds invented since the Babylonian Yeshivas.

Why then does Netanyahu choose to turn his back on the will of the majority, thereby eroding public trust in him and his government?

The Haredim (ultra-Orthodox) are changing their attitude toward Israeli society writ large, and are returning to their historical stance of oppositionalism – resistance to authority and expectations.

Israelis want a commission of inquiry, but the government has refused. What if a panel was tasked with preventing future disasters, not assigning blame?