Hamas doesn't need to release hostages for peace

(JNS) — Marco Massari, mayor of the Italian city of Reggio Emilia, was presenting a civic honor to Francesca Albanese, a United Nations special rapporteur for Palestinian rights, on Sunday, when he told an audience of hundreds, “the end of the genocide and the release of the hostages are necessary conditions to start a peace process.”

The U.N. adviser, who has a long history of Jew-hatred, reportedly scolded Massari, as the crowd jeered the mayor.

“The mayor was wrong and said something that is not true,” Albanese said. “Peace does not need conditions.”

Washington has sanctioned Albanese, and...