The war with Hamas has demonstrated the importance of aligning military operations with political objectives.

The failures of Israel’s intelligence community to learn of the coordinated Hamas assault on Oct. 7 and prevent it underscores the need for comprehensive reforms to Israel’s intelligence community.

We must ask ourselves why it is that so many around the world prefer the fabrications of Hamas to the facts to be found on the ground.

Five months into this war, how are high-ranking officers still safe in their jobs while shamelessly reprimanding those below them?

Practically, what Netanyahu wants to do is also keep the public focused on the SIM cards and distract people from what really led to October 7.

How is it conceivable that the lives of these individuals have become an issue over which there is no consensus and no outcry? How is there more than one side to the “hostage question”?

The war, forced on Israel by the brutal Hamas massacre of more than 1,200 people, changes the way that the Jewish state will conduct security going forward.

Before we call them up for further combat service, we must act to restore Israelis’ trust in the state’s leadership.