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Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/opinion/israel-war-hamas-peace-gaza.html
Why Israel Won the War
(New York Times) Bret Stephens - Israelis fight not only because they were faced by an existential threat. They also faced an existential lie: the lie that Israel is a settler-colonialist state, a nonnative invasive species that has no place in that land. It's a lie that's taken hold everywhere, even if a 3,000-year historical record disproves it. And it's a lie that attacks the very roots of Jewish identity. The war should settle important questions. Are Israelis weak? Is their state built on foundations of sand? Is their attachment to their beliefs slight? Yahya Sinwar and those who followed him thought so.