A year has passed in Israel and the Gaza Strip like some nightmare from which there is no awakening. Hatred is the only winner. It towers over the corpse of a two-state Israeli-Palestinian peace and threatens to spread across the Middle East.

“Bring them home now” say ubiquitous posters in Israel, alluding to the roughly 100 hostages, many dead, still held by Hamas. Gaza lies in ruins as Israel exacts a terrible price in Palestinian life for the October 7 Hamas terrorist attack that killed more than 1200 Israelis, and summoned in Jews every devouring spectre of the Holocaust.