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IDF Faces a Harsh Reality in Southern Gaza
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IDF Faces a Harsh Reality in Southern Gaza

Khan Younis, GazaWhat is happening in southern Gaza—and as important, what isn’t happening—threatens to leave the Middle East violently unstable for years. The battle for Khan Younis is forcing Israel to face a harsh reality: Hamas likely won’t be totally annihilated. And Israel’s two goals, killing Hamas’s leaders and rescuing all the hostages, are coming into contradiction.Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
America Needs a Middle East Strategy
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America Needs a Middle East Strategy

Nearly two months into Israel’s ground campaign, all eyes are on the Gaza Strip. Yet divisions over Gaza point to a disconnect between U.S. policy and strategic reality. The Middle East is headed toward a major war, for which the U.S. needs a strategy well beyond Gaza.Since late November, the Biden administration’s approach to the Gaza war has been to issue generic statements of discontent for domestic audiences absent policy action. Washington and Jerusalem disagree on their visions of postwar Gaza. The administration sees the Palestinian Authority as the most viable partner for governance there. Israel can’t accept this, given the authority’s corruption, incompetence and unpopularity in Gaza and the West Bank. A Palestinian Authority-governed Gaza would relapse into Hamas-style radicali...
Nelson Peltz Resigns From Wiesenthal Board Over Its Ben & Jerry’s Tweet
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Nelson Peltz Resigns From Wiesenthal Board Over Its Ben & Jerry’s Tweet

Billionaire investor Nelson Peltz resigned from his position at the Simon Wiesenthal Center after the Jewish organization urged people not to buy Ben & Jerry’s ice cream.Peltz, who is a board member at Unilever, Ben & Jerry’s parent company, stepped down from the center on Dec. 12, according to people familiar with the matter. His firm, Trian Fund Management, is a Unilever shareholder.Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
Nelson Peltz Resigns From Wiesenthal Board Over Its Ben & Jerry’s Tweet
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Nelson Peltz Resigns From Wiesenthal Board Over Its Ben & Jerry’s Tweet

Billionaire investor Nelson Peltz resigned from his position at the Simon Wiesenthal Center after the Jewish organization urged people not to buy Ben & Jerry’s ice cream.Peltz, who is a board member at Unilever, Ben & Jerry’s parent company, stepped down from the center on Dec. 12, according to people familiar with the matter. His firm, Trian Fund Management, is a Unilever shareholder.Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
How One Jewish American Family Wrestles Over Israel
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How One Jewish American Family Wrestles Over Israel

Emanuelle Sippy, a 20-year-old junior at Princeton University who heads the campus’s Alliance of Jewish Progressives, came to believe in recent years that Israel is an apartheid state guilty of committing human-rights abuses. The war in Gaza has reinforced her views, and she has responded by participating in vigils, walkouts and other actions demanding a cease-fire.Sippy’s father, David Wirtschafter—a Reform rabbi in Lexington, Ky., who attended rabbinical school in Jerusalem—aches when he hears some of her harshest criticisms of Israel. And Sippy’s grandmother, Carol Wirtschafter, who lived with her husband and children in Jerusalem during the 1973 Yom Kippur War, laments that Sippy has lost hope for the country.Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe8...
Israel’s Message in Gaza to Iran and Hezbollah
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Israel’s Message in Gaza to Iran and Hezbollah

Gaza CityNorthern Gaza has been flattened. It isn’t just another combat zone. The area will need years of rebuilding before Palestinian civilians can live there.Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
The Biden-Blinken Rules of War for Israel
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The Biden-Blinken Rules of War for Israel

War is back against Hamas, but will the Biden Administration let Israel win? Secretary of State Antony Blinken delivered the bad news to Jerusalem before the truce ended: He wants Israel on a short leash.Hamas fired rockets at Israel Friday morning, in violation of the pause, and failed to produce the remaining female hostages to trade for more time and terrorists. It also claimed that its last child hostages, 10-month-old Kfir Bibas and his four-year-old brother, Ariel, are dead.Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8