“Establishing a Palestinian state today is establishing a Hamas state, a jihadist state,” Israel’s Foreign Minister Gideon Saar declared Monday. “It ain’t gonna happen,” he added.

Of course, Israel will not accept a Hamas-run state. Whatever chance of that happening ended on Oct. 7, 2023, when Hamas invaded Israel and slaughtered 1,200 innocents in the most gruesome pogrom we have seen since the gates of the concentration camps were opened by the Allies as Europe was liberated in 1944-1945. (Majdanek, located in Lublin, Poland, was liberated in the summer of 1944 as Soviet forces advanced westward. U.S. forces liberated the Buchenwald concentration camp near Weimar, Germany, on April 11, 1945.)