Israel's second war of independence

(JNS) — It’s been 18 months since Hamas’s invasion of Israel and the barbaric pogrom that followed. Hamas is still holding and torturing hostages. The Israel Defense Forces is still fighting not just Hamas but also Hamas’s allies, all of them guided and supported by the jihadi regime in Tehran.

That’s the bad news.

The good news: Painfully but steadily, Israelis have been making progress against enemies who intend not to subjugate but to exterminate them.

Israel’s first War of Independence, 1948-49, lasted 20 months. This one will take longer.

On a brief but intensive tour of Israel last week—...