WALL STREET JOURNAL
America’s Debt to Israel
Reuel Marc Gerecht and Ray Takeyh
October 6, 2025

Two years after Hamas’s Oct. 7 atrocities, the U.S. should be grateful to Israel. The Jewish state has defanged a range of militant actors who despise the U.S. and have killed Americans. Yet the Gaza war, with its substantial civilian casualties, has turned much of the Democratic Party against Israel and fractured European-Israeli relations. Israel’s enemies on the left depict the Jewish state as an illegitimate pro-Trump “apartheid” state, and the war has also stirred anti-Israel sentiments in corners of the American right…But Israel’s fight against Hamas has proved different from the Six-Day War. Hamas, Israel’s savviest enemy, borrowed a page from the playbook of past guerrilla forces. By shielding themselves with civilians, the terrorists have been able to use innocents’ deaths to mobilize the international community against the Jewish state. Democracies are particularly vulnerable to this cruel tactic.  READ MORE

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