(The Hill) Max Rego - Secretary of State Marco Rubio told CBS's "Face the Nation" on Sunday that an independent Palestinian state is "not even possible. That's not even a realistic thing right now, because who would govern that Palestinian state, Hamas?" Rubio noted that establishing a new government in Gaza will require assistance from Middle Eastern and European nations. However, with the conflict still ongoing, he said, "We are so far from that right now. That's going to take some time to build up, and it's going to require a lot of work and a lot of international support."

(Prime Minister's Office) Prime Minister Netanyahu said Thursday: "I thank the heroic soldiers of the IDF and the entire security apparatus, whose bravery and sacrifice brought us to this day. I thank, from the bottom of my heart, President Trump and his team for their mobilization for the sacred task of releasing our hostages. God willing, we will continue together in order to achieve all our aims and expand the peace with our neighbors."

(Jerusalem Post) The IDF and Israel Security Agency seized a large stockpile of weapons smuggled from Iran to terror operatives in the West Bank, the military announced on Wednesday. The weapons included 29 anti-personnel mines, four drones, including two explosive drones, 15 anti-tank rockets, a rocket-propelled grenade launcher, three rocket launchers, 20 hand grenades, 53 pistols, seven assault rifles, nine machine guns, and 750 bullets.

(Wall Street Journal) Summer Said - U.S. and Arab mediators had worked fruitlessly for months to craft a deal to at least pause the fighting in Gaza and free more of the Israeli hostages. On Sep. 9, Israeli missiles slammed into an office in Qatar where Hamas's top negotiators were meeting. The attack was a sobering reminder to Arab countries of the risk of regional escalation, focusing their minds on peace. Hamas leaders were now becoming a bigger risk for their Arab hosts. President Trump decided to try to turn the crisis to his advantage. After three weeks of shuttle diplomacy, Trump announced that he had a plan. Netanyahu, standing by his side, voiced acceptance of the plan and a host of Arab and Muslim leaders followed suit. The main components of Trump's plan include: Hamas surrendering hostages and giving up power; Israel pulling back troops; an Arab international force to provide security in Gaza; and Palestinian technocrats to administer the territory.

(Israel Hayom) Freddy Eytan - In his approach to negotiating the release of all hostages held in Gaza, President Trump has thwarted French diplomacy and inflicted a severe snub on President Macron, who wanted to precipitate events by first offering a state to the Palestinians, without obtaining any concessions. Unlike Macron's plan, the 20 points of the Trump plan were written in concert with Israel. The American plan was carefully and skillfully developed by seasoned experts and diplomats, with the aim of isolating Hamas from the outset and gaining the approval of the Arab-Muslim world. While only a first draft, it is a noble work for future relations between Israel and all the countries of the Middle East. The plan outlines a roadmap, a framework agreement that sets solid milestones to enable stakeholders to clearly monitor the plan's progress. It has the great merit of being able to achieve those Israeli demands that we have been seeking since the end of the Six-Day War in 1967. For the first time, an American president is boldly proposing a different vision for resolving the Palestinian question. He is taking seriously all the factors supported by the overwhelming majority of Israelis: the historical rights of the Jewish people to their land, no withdrawal to the 1949 armistice lines, secure and defensible borders, Jerusalem indivisible under Israeli sovereignty, the Golan Heights under Israeli sovereignty, Hamas and all "resistance" movements against the Jewish state are now terrorist organizations, no to recognition of a Palestinian state before final status negotiations. The writer, a researcher at the Jerusalem Center for Security and Foreign Affairs, is a former Foreign Ministry senior adviser who was Israel's first ambassador to the Islamic Republic of Mauritania.

(Israel Hayom) Nadav Shragai - It may well be that the deal Israel is preparing to sign with Hamas is unavoidable. But it is far from a "total victory." Israel is to release from prison 250 terrorists convicted of multiple murders. Israel rightly sanctifies the lives of its hostages, but at the same time mortgages the lives of its citizens. More than 85% of terrorists released in past decades have returned to terrorism, to attack or kill Israelis again. We are releasing ticking time bombs. Israel has achieved significant accomplishments: large parts of Gaza have been flattened; we've established a perimeter, eliminated tens of thousands of terrorists, destroyed miles of underground infrastructure, and taken control of the Philadelphi Route along the border with Egypt. But we've also sent a clear message that the way to secure the release of killers is through more abductions. Our commitment to redeeming captives and to mutual responsibility has now proven to be our weakness, leading to the emptying of our prisons of those who murdered, and who are almost certain to murder again or orchestrate more killings. The terrorists freed in the 1985 Jibril deal became the backbone of the First Intifada, in which 165 Israelis were murdered. Half of the terrorists released under the Oslo Accords joined the Palestinian terror apparatus, with many playing key roles in the Second Intifada, which killed 1,178 Israelis. Those released in the 2011 Gilad Shalit deal went on to bring about the Oct. 7 massacre.

(Times of Israel) David Horovitz - Hamas has been reduced from a 24-battalion army to a guerrilla force primarily focused on survival. But its ideology is unchanged: destroy Israel and kill Jews at any cost. And it has galvanized ever-widening global backing for its cause from hate-filled antisemites and their useful idiot allies. President Trump may have welcomed Hamas's ostensible acceptance of his plan as evidence that the Islamic extremist group is "ready for a lasting PEACE." But, in fact, Hamas is ready for nothing of the kind. Neither are Qatar and Turkey - two Trump-allied nations taking central roles in mediating the current talks - remotely interested in Hamas's demise. Turkish President Erdogan repeatedly brands Israel as a terrorist entity and lauds Hamas as its victim. Qatar relentlessly poisons minds worldwide courtesy of its Al Jazeera outlet. Let nobody think this would spell the end of Hamas, active and widely supported in the West Bank, bent on eventual revival in Gaza, anticipating a major boost through the release of notorious terrorist murderers from all Palestinian factions, and still publicly reveling in its "glorious" Oct. 7 invasion.

(Ynet News) Amb. Michael Oren - President Trump's peace plan did indeed promise to achieve all of Israel's goals: the release of the hostages and the end of Hamas's rule in Gaza. The president declared that Hamas had accepted the plan and was prepared for peace. He ordered the IDF to stop firing in Gaza City to facilitate the safe release of the hostages. Once relieved of Israeli military pressure, Hamas will try to drag the U.S. into protracted negotiations and obtain approval to remain in Gaza and keep its "defensive weapons." In short, in exchange for the release of the hostages, Hamas wants to win the war. Our goal, therefore, must be to uphold Trump's original plan and not allow Hamas to water it down. We must secure the unconditional release of all the hostages, without allowing Hamas to keep its weapons or take part in a postwar Gaza government. The writer was Israel's ambassador to the U.S., 2009-13.

(Wall Street Journal) Moumen Al-Natour - Two masked Hamas gunmen came to the door of my Gaza City apartment in July and ordered me to report to al-Shifa Hospital for an interrogation. I had been active in the anti-Hamas protests that month. As they do in most Gaza hospitals, Hamas maintains a hidden torture dungeon at al-Shifa. I am familiar with this because I have been arrested by Hamas on 20 occasions and tortured more than once. I knew what complying with the gunmen meant: I would be lucky to leave only with broken bones. During the war, the number of dissidents murdered by Hamas's Arrow Unit enforcers has increased sharply, their bodies dumped in the street or delivered to the front door of their families. A few weeks earlier, Hamas militants tortured local journalist Ahmed al-Masri for joining the protests, breaking his feet and shooting him in the legs. They stabbed activist Uday al-Rubaie to death and hurled his body from a tower. I chose to take my chances by escaping the city, staying on the move in areas no longer held by Hamas. My hope is that this war ends with the end of Hamas's tyranny and the rebirth of Gaza as a place open to peace and prosperity.

(Jerusalem Report) Dana Ben-Shimon - After two years of war, Gaza residents are struggling to grasp what their lives have become after Hamas's decision to attack Israel on Oct. 7, 2023. Many describe the current reality as a total nightmare. The feeling of betrayal by Hamas looms large. For 17 years under its rule, Gazans were told that "resistance" would protect them and serve the Palestinian cause. Sacrifice, they were told, was sacred and worthwhile. But now, many have begun to ask: Was it worth the price? "Gaza has turned into hell, Hamas led us to this hell. Nothing is left, people have lost everything they had, and for what? What did we get out of all this? Nothing but death and destruction," said F., 60, now living in a refugee camp with his family in central Gaza. "In the moment of truth, Hamas wasn't there to help the people defend themselves. We've been misled....Failed and silly leaders have brought us to where we are today. We have to be honest. Attacking Israel was a big mistake made by Hamas....I just know that people now don't love Hamas." Hamas "still has some degree of presence in Gaza, though much less than before," said Omar, who fled with his family from Gaza City last month. "That means that people are still being cautious and avoiding messing with the group's militants or affiliates....When you walk in the streets, you can hear people cursing Hamas. Some of those who supported the movement and expressed joy at the beginning are now saying that what Hamas did was insane." Other Gazans - including some on social media - still express support for Hamas's ideology and describe the Oct. 7 attack as "the historic heroic defeat inflicted by Hamas on the Zionist entity." Michael Milshtein, head of the Palestinian Studies Forum at the Dayan Center at Tel Aviv University, said, "Hamas is still embedded in the Palestinian public in Gaza, and there is deep sympathy for the group and its ideology." Though Hamas has been significantly weakened, Milshtein says "it is still the dominant power in Gaza."

(Wall Street Journal) Abeer Ayyoub - Half a dozen people in Gaza reached by the Wall Street Journal all had a consistent message: Hamas should accept the U.S.-brokered deal. Alaa Khalil, 49, a mother of six who lives in a tent camp in Gaza, said in an interview she supported Hamas before the war. Her husband worked in the Hamas government's finance ministry and was detained by Israel when the conflict started. But Hamas's conduct during the war has led her to question the group's decision-making and leadership. "I don't feel like our suffering matters to them, I am very upset by their statements," Khalil said. Eman Badah, 31, said she wonders what Hamas thought would happen when it launched the 2023 attacks, why it didn't prepare and what it thinks could be gained from further fighting.

(Harvard-Harris Poll) The Harvard CAPS-Harris Poll conducted Oct. 1-2, 2025, asked U.S. voters: In the Israel-Hamas conflict, do you support more Israel or more Hamas? 75% said Israel, 25% said Hamas. 84% of Republicans, 72% of Independents, and 68% of Democrats supported Israel. In the 18-24 age group, 55% supported Israel, while 45% supported Hamas. 69% said the long-term answer to the Israeli-Palestinian dispute is for there to be two states: Israel and Palestine. In the Israel-Iran conflict, 79% supported Israel more, while 21% supported Iran more.

(Wall Street Journal) Reuel Marc Gerecht and Ray Takeyh - Two years after Hamas's Oct. 7 atrocities, the U.S. should be grateful to Israel. The Jewish state has begun to degrade America's enemies one by one. Hamas, an Iran-allied Islamist outfit dedicated to killing Jews, no longer exists as a military force. The Israel Defense Forces and Mossad took apart Hizbullah, the most lethal of Iran's terrorist proxies, which has killed many Americans including 241 in the 1983 Beirut bombings. The Sunni-slaughtering, drug-running Assad dynasty in Damascus - robbed of Hizbullah's help as well as Iranian and Russian troops - collapsed. And in a stunning 12-day aerial duel, Israel badly damaged the Islamic Republic's nuclear program, killing scores of its generals and atomic scientists. Israel's success convinced President Trump to send the B-2 bombers that ensured that Iran's most deeply buried uranium-enrichment site went offline. Will Washington have the understanding and intestinal fortitude to stand by an ally that has repeatedly enhanced America's influence throughout the Middle East and beyond? Reuel Marc Gerecht, a former Iranian-targets officer in the CIA, is a resident scholar at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies. Ray Takeyh is a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations.

(Jerusalem Post) Gil Troy - The Washington Post reports that 61% of American Jews believe Israel "committed war crimes" in Gaza, while four in 10 find it "guilty of genocide." Really? I'm ashamed of those American Jews swallowing these antisemitic "war crimes" libels, betraying themselves, not just their people. Believing this "genocide" charge requires intellectual sloppiness, moral cowardice, and flamboyant disloyalty against your own people, who were attacked so brutally. My advice: Sharpen your brains, grow a spine, and watch your back. I get it. The media pounding is overwhelming. However, heaven is overflowing with too many fresh angels to pull punches. I find this genocide libel bigoted, not just false. This custom-made-for-Israel definition of "genocide" eliminates the requirement of an "intent to destroy." No genocidal army ever imported 14,125 tons of aid in one week alone or deployed soldiers risking their lives to protect humanitarian aid convoys. And no genocidal army ever had lawyers assessing military targets or officers aborting missions to minimize civilian damage. This is inversion-perversion. Accusing the Jewish state - engaged in a difficult war that Hamas started, with hostages still being starved - of the horrific crime Jews endured in the 1940s reeks of the diabolical hatred Jews endured for millennia. Finally, this newly diluted definition of genocide applies to any military conflict that kills civilians. Anyone honoring World War II veterans salutes "genociders," given the two to four million German and Japanese civilians killed. And anyone over 30 who remained silent as America killed over 940,000 civilians during the justified post-9/11 wars was "complicit" in their own country's "genocide." Some think antisemitism surged because Israelis have fought back so aggressively since Oct. 7. But antisemitism surged because Jews bled so broadly on Oct. 7. Our momentary weakness emboldened the haters. They rejoiced and started libeling Israel. The writer, a Distinguished Scholar of North American History at McGill University, is a Senior Fellow in Zionist Thought at the Jewish People Policy Institute.

(Jerusalem Post) Catherine Perez-Shakdam - On Yom Kippur, worshippers outside the Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation in Manchester were rammed and stabbed by a terrorist in a deadly rampage. Then within hours, in London's streets eliminationist slogans were chanted with gusto. Lawful protest is a jewel in the crown of British liberty. But a protest is not a permit to menace. It is not a day-pass to call for the eradication of a people or the dismantling of the world's only Jewish state. It does not entitle anyone to transform the public square into a theater of intimidation. Since Oct. 7, 2023, we have witnessed a marked rise in antisemitic incidents, the normalization of chants once thought beyond the pale, a creeping tolerance for placards and slogans that would, not long ago, have prompted a collective inhalation of horror. The reaction of the government is widely read as weakness. Radicals see that a state that asks nicely and retreats at the first refusal is a state that can be played. If your strategy is to plead with radicals and shrug when they refuse, you have mistaken governance for wishful thinking. The right to assemble is not the right to terrify; the right to speak is not the right to incite. Britain at her best is steadfast and decent, with a national instinct toward fairness that is one of the wonders of the world. However, fairness is not paralysis. The time for law, applied without flinch, is now. The writer, executive director of We Believe In Israel, is an associate scholar at the Jerusalem Center for Security and Foreign Affairs.

(Telegraph-UK) Jamie Shapiro - "The day after Oct. 7, I saw the people celebrating in Birmingham," says Gordon Biggerstaff, 61, a nurse from North Wales. "They were dancing and they were singing. I have never been so ashamed of my country....I thought, 'These people don't represent me,' and I needed to do something about it myself." He immediately looked into volunteering in Israel and found an organization called Sar-El, which assists at IDF bases in non-military logistical roles. "I want the people in Israel to know that they are not alone, they are not ignored and there are others in the world who see their pain and are prepared to come into the water." Leigh Humpage, 64, who co-ordinates the volunteers from the UK, says they also reach out into the civilian population. "They help with all kinds of things, from painting nurseries to helping to rebuild shattered homes and buildings....Many help out on farms to help with the harvests....One of our Sar-El volunteers is a 'medical clown,' helping to brighten up the lives of traumatized children. Others are carpenters, teachers and therapists who bring their skills to contribute to rebuilding and healing." Volunteer Keenan Simms says: "You walk into a coffee shop in Israel, and you tell people that you're not Jewish but you're here to help and you see grown men cry."

(National Post-Canada) Barbara Kay - A full-page ad in the Sept. 27 issue of the Globe and Mail, sponsored by the NGO Medecins sans Frontieres/Doctors without Borders (MSF), tots up the many calamities Gazans have endured in the two-year Hamas-Israel war. The ad speaks of civilian hunger, but not of plentiful aid stolen by Hamas. It does not mention Hamas at all - or the hostages taken, or any other cause of the war. And hanging overall the false accusation that it is Israel that is committing genocide. Genocide requires intent, demonstrably not the case in Israel's defensive war, but which perfectly describes the motivation behind Hamas's rabid pogrom on October 7. Those reading the ad won't register the absence of objectivity of today's MSF as a politicized, biased and untrustworthy source of information. MSF has not only lied about proven Hamas entrenchment in Gaza hospitals ("we have seen no evidence that the hospital buildings or the compounds are being used by Hamas as a military base") but admitted - following Oct. 7, mind - giving funding to the Hamas-run Gaza Ministry of Health. "Non-governmental organizations" are supposed to be made up of altruistic civic-minded groups that provide expertise independent of the narrow self-interest of political bodies. It is on that ground that they are invited to participate in UN activities. But now retired, anti-democratic Marxist activists have executed the equivalent of a corporate hostile takeover of now corrupted NGOs like MSF, Human Rights Watch and Amnesty. The superpower NGOs are accountable to nobody, yet in large part they are setting the UN's agenda on Israel. Then, when the UN executes the agenda they have promoted, they endorse it as if it were a coincidence.

(Jerusalem Post) Editorial - October 7 destroyed the belief that Israel could, through passive defense, contain those sworn to its destruction, that technology could replace manpower, that deterrence and diplomacy could substitute for vigilance and will. Israel misjudged Hamas by assuming it would not do anything crazy for fear of provoking a devastating Israeli response. The same misreading must not be repeated with anyone else in the region. Take your enemies at their word and act proactively to prevent them from carrying out their malevolent designs. Fences and cameras cannot replace soldiers. Technology is a force multiplier, not a substitute for force. In addition, Israelis woke up to the realization that the country was dependent on foreign countries - primarily the U.S. - for basic tools of war: bullets, mortars, and bombs. The government has since moved to expand local production of munitions and reduce reliance on others. Israel cannot afford to slide back into the wishful thinking that threats can be managed rather than defeated. Our enemies are implacable, security depends on readiness, and actual deterrence comes only from unmistakable strength and the willingness to use it.

(Jerusalem Center for Security and Foreign Affairs) Col. (ret.) Dr. Jacques Neriah - The unprecedented blow suffered by Hizbullah at the hands of Israel brought drastic changes to the Lebanese reality. Suddenly, Hizbullah was a subject of criticism and mockery in Lebanon. Due to Hassan Nasrallah's opening of a "support front" facing Israel, 22 out 29 villages on the border with Israel were erased, while more than 60,000 houses were damaged and 120,000 residents of southern Lebanon had to flee. Hizbullah was accused of taking part in a war that did not concern the Lebanese at all. The Israeli response to the Hizbullah attack created a new reality. The power equation of mutual deterrence between Israel and Hizbullah that existed since 2006 was brushed away by Israel. Discovering Hizbullah's weakness, presidential elections, which Hizbullah had blocked, were held, and Joseph Aoun, the former army chief and a pro-American candidate, was elected president in January. Hizbullah lost the veto right it had held in previous governments. Forty custom officers who served the interests of Hizbullah at Beirut International Airport were fired. The landing of Iranian planes carrying cash to the militia was forbidden. The most significant blow to Hizbullah is the establishment of a new Sunni anti-Iranian and anti-Hizbullah regime in Syria, which stopped being the route through which weapons, manpower, sophisticated technologies, and money sent by Iran reached Lebanon. Yet, little by little, Hizbullah has come back to center stage. While the government has asked all militias in Lebanon to surrender their weapons, Hizbullah could not accept this. President Aoun knows he cannot order the army to disarm Hizbullah. His army would disintegrate into sectarian units after any such attempt. The writer, a special analyst for the Middle East at the Jerusalem Center, was formerly Deputy Head for Assessment of Israeli Military Intelligence.

(Telegraph-UK) Charles Moore - The Oct. 7 Hamas massacre in Israel was possibly the most terrible day of the 21st century so far. Its most obvious rival is the attacks on the U.S. on Sep. 11, 2001. I would say that there was something peculiarly low and disgusting about Oct. 7 - because it slaughtered whole families, because it also involved rape, because 200 people were kidnapped, some tortured, some murdered, some held (dead or alive) to this day, and because it specifically targeted Jews. And the great majority of those who committed the Oct. 7 atrocities returned to a heroes' welcome. Some might complain, "Why labor these points? We know how dreadful it was." The trouble is, I don't think we do. I think we have half-forgotten. This is because the deeds of that day have been deliberately effaced and, in a sly manner, excused. Even before Israel retaliated, numerous Hamas apologists attacked it for retaliation. Some claimed atrocity footage had been faked. Have you noticed how the use of the hostages as pawns in negotiation is now reported with complete neutrality, as if this were a perfectly acceptable tactic? Tory leader Kemi Badenoch on Sunday described the pro-Gaza marches as "carnivals of hatred" and explained how a slogan such as "globalizing the intifada" means, in practice, "targeting Jewish people for violence." Thus does what is probably our best-integrated, most patriotic and law-abiding ethnic minority become the main target in the land which Jews trusted to give them refuge. My support for Israel is based on the absolute necessity of defending a democratic and secure homeland of a people whom human wickedness constantly tries to persecute. The writer, a member of the House of Lords, is a former editor of the Daily Telegraph, Spectator, and Sunday Telegraph.

(Jerusalem Center for Security and Foreign Affairs) Dr. Dan Diker - Oct. 7 destroyed the myth that the Palestinian-Israeli conflict was political in nature and solvable by territorial compromise. Demonstrations in the West celebrating Hamas's atrocities represent symptoms of a deeper civilizational crisis. Demonstrators chanting in favor of a U.S.-designated terrorist organization, while demonizing America's steadfast democratic ally, is a result of American universities' systematic undermining of support for the U.S.-Israel alliance through post-colonialist frameworks. The speed with which American institutions mobilized to justify Hamas's atrocities revealed how deeply the "globalize the intifada" strategy had penetrated Western societies. An Israeli victory over Hamas constitutes an American victory over an axis of anti-Western adversaries determined to capture and reshape the Middle East and the international order. The ideological threat to Israel and the U.S.-led Western alliance - and the West's response to it - will determine whether the liberal international order survives. The writer is president of the Jerusalem Center.

(Jerusalem Center for Security and Foreign Affairs) Lt.-Col. (res.) Maurice Hirsch - The barbarism of Oct. 7 came as no surprise for anyone who actually listens to what the Palestinian leadership has been telling its population for decades. For Israel, the Oslo Accords were yet another Jewish attempt to create peaceful co-existence between Jews and Arabs. For Palestinian leaders, the accords were the embodiment of the Islamic principle of "Taqiyya," or deceit. Feigning historic reconciliation, in the view of the Palestinian leadership, the Oslo Accords were nothing more than an opportunity to further the implementation of the Palestine Liberation Organization's "Plan of Stages," to secure a solid territorial foothold from which it could pursue the goal to destroy Israel. While the international community did its utmost to promote the fallacy of a moderate PLO-Fatah against a fanatical Hamas, the truth is that there is no real difference between the groups. Both equally strive to destroy Israel. 72% of all Palestinians (82% in Judea and Samaria) believed that Hamas's decision to launch the Oct. 7 massacre was correct. 87% of Palestinians still reject the fact that the Gaza terrorists carried out atrocities during the massacre. For decades, the PLO/PA and Hamas have indoctrinated Palestinian society to embrace martyrdom, telling the Palestinians that terror and murder are a religious imperative - a Jihad - of good against evil. For this reason, Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas did not unequivocally condemn the massacre and has not rejected Hamas because in its essence, the massacre was an integral part of the PLO-PA plan to destroy Israel. The writer, former director of the Military Prosecution in Judea and Samaria, is director of the Palestinian Authority Accountability Initiative at the Jerusalem Center.

(Jerusalem Center for Security and Foreign Affairs) Dr. Irwin J. Mansdorf - Over the past two years, in military terms, Israel certainly seems to have damaged the enemy more than the enemy has damaged Israel. But in the cognitive, perceptual, and psychological war, Israel's enemies have gained the upper hand as more Israelis feel unwelcome around the world. The psychological war between Israel and the Palestinians started long before Oct. 7. An already present anti-Israel narrative promoted by the UN focused on Palestinian dispossession which began in 1948. Even the "genocide" libel started long before Oct. 7. In partnering with or piggybacking on social change movements, Palestinian narratives have gained not only prominence but cultural acceptance which, in turn, has fueled political acceptance. A militarily defeated enemy that feels they have won is not really defeated. Hamas has managed to turn defeat into success by manipulating a gullible, naive, and partially antisemitic world. As noted by Mordechai Kedar, "Even if only one of Hamas remained, with a severed leg and hand, he would stand on the remains of a destroyed mosque and raise his two fingers in a victory sign." For Hamas and many Palestinian Arabs, Oct. 7 remains a day they are proud of. The writer is a clinical psychologist and a fellow at the Jerusalem Center specializing in political psychology.