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  • Opinion | Is Qatar Finally Ready to Split With Hamas?

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    Amit Segal writes that “change is afoot,” as Doha is finally pressing Hamas to accept the Gaza peace deal President Trump has put on the table (“ Why Qatar Changed Course on Hamas,” op-ed, Oct. 1). Qatari support for the proposal is a positive development, but the U.S. should be cautious it isn’t fleeting. Doha has played double games before, and unless it sustains its pressure on Hamas, this may prove to be another one.

    Qatar’s next move will be telling. Hamas agreed in part on Friday to the Trump administration’s proposal for Gaza, essentially saying, “Yes, but,” with the apparent intention of stalling the plan’s roll out. If talks drag on, will Doha increase the pressure on its longtime client, or back new conditions that Hamas demands and side with terrorists as it did on Oct. 7, 2023?

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  • Opinion | Has Japan Found Its Margaret Thatcher?

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    Japan may soon have another Prime Minister after Sanae Takaichi this weekend won the race to lead the (barely) ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP). There are reasons to be modestly hopeful, but also reason to curb your enthusiasm.

    Ms. Takaichi, who would become Japan’s first female leader, defeated Shinjiro Koizumi in a runoff in an intraparty campaign centered on whether the LDP can get its mojo back. The party hasn’t had compelling leadership since Shinzo Abe’s retirement and then assassination. It’s been buffeted by election losses as voters flee to upstart parties, especially on the right.

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    The Editorial Board

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  • Opinion | The World’s Worst Job Is in France

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    Where do they think they are—Italy? France on Monday lost another Prime Minister—the fifth in two years—as Paris burns through senior political leaders at the pace you used to see in Rome. Don’t expect the revolving door to slow down any time soon.

    The latest victim of political dysfunction à la française is Sébastien Lecornu, who quit after less than a month as PM. He’d come into office promising a “profound break” with the gridlock of the recent past. Then this weekend he introduced a new cabinet stacked with politicians associated with unpopular President Emmanuel Macron. The backlash in the obstreperous legislature prompted his resignation a day later.

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    The Editorial Board

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  • Opinion | Japan Gets New Kind of Leader

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    Sanae Takaichi, a hawkish nationalist, wants to make her country great again.

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    Walter Russell Mead

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  • Opinion | America’s Debt to Israel

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    Two years after Hamas’s Oct. 7 atrocities, the U.S. should be grateful to Israel. The Jewish state has defanged a range of militant actors who despise the U.S. and have killed Americans. Yet the Gaza war, with its substantial civilian casualties, has turned much of the Democratic Party against Israel and fractured European-Israeli relations. Israel’s enemies on the left depict the Jewish state as an illegitimate pro-Trump “apartheid” state, and the war has also stirred anti-Israel sentiments in corners of the American right.

    This hostility to Israel wasn’t inevitable; wars have sometimes transformed the Middle East for the better. Take the Six Day War. In the 1960s, the radical Arab republics led by Egypt’s Gamal Abdel Nasser aligned with the Soviet Union. Nasser helped finish off the British in the Middle East, menaced the oil-rich Gulf sheikhdoms, and harassed Israel. Arab nationalism—a crude amalgam of socialism, opposition to Western imperialism, violent cultural chauvinism, and sometimes not-so-latent Muslim pride—had gained sway in the region. Nasser and militant Arabism looked like the future.

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    Reuel Marc Gerecht

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  • Opinion | Pacific Allies Need U.S. Support

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    By

    Roger Wicker

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    Deb Fischer

    We set out across the Indo-Pacific in August to assess U.S. military readiness and consult with allies. In the Philippines, Palau and Taiwan, we found partners determined to resist Chinese coercion and willing to share the burden.

    In Taiwan we spoke with President Lai Ching-tse and senior officials. They understand the gravity of the threat and are responding with urgency to meet it. Mr. Lai has committed to increasing defense spending and mobilizing the public behind a resilience plan.

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    Roger Wicker

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  • Opinion | Perilous Times for Optimistic Jews in the U.K.

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    Gerry Baker is Editor at Large of The Wall Street Journal. His weekly column for the editorial page, “Free Expression,” appears in The Wall Street Journal each Tuesday. Mr. Baker is also host of “WSJ at Large with Gerry Baker,” a weekly news and current affairs interview show on the Fox Business Network, and the weekly WSJ Opinion podcast “Free Expression” where he speaks with some of the world’s leading writers, influencers and thinkers about a variety of subjects.

    Mr. Baker previously served as Editor in Chief of The Wall Street Journal and Dow Jones from 2013-2018. Prior to that, Mr. Baker was Deputy Editor in Chief of The Wall Street Journal from 2009-2013. He has been a journalist for more than 30 years, writing and broadcasting for some of the world’s most famous news organizations, including his tenure at The Financial Times, The Times of London, and The BBC.

    He was educated at Corpus Christi College, Oxford University, where he graduated in 1983 with a 1st Class Honors Degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics.

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    Gerard Baker

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  • Opinion | The Global Intifada Has Arrived in England

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    It was Yom Kippur when Jihad al-Shamie, a Syrian-born British citizen, attacked a synagogue in Manchester. According to the Guardian, al-Shamie was out on bail for an alleged rape and is believed to have a previous criminal history. Two Jews, Melvin Cravitz, 66, and Adrian Daulby, 53, were killed before police shot al-Shamie dead. Three other people are in serious condition. Al-Shamie’s method, car-ramming and a knife, is frequently used by Palestinian terrorists against Israelis. As the left-Islamist mobs say, “Globalize the intifada.”

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    Dominic Green

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  • Opinion | Europe’s New War on the Jews

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    Yom Kippur sees a terror attack in Britain, while Germany foils one.

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    The Editorial Board

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  • Opinion | Why Not Let Ukraine Hit Moscow?

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    The news this week that the U.S. will lend intelligence support for Ukraine’s long-range missile strikes on Russian targets is welcome—and testifies to the live debate inside the Trump Administration on how to deal with Vladimir Putin’s refusal to negotiate an end to his assault on Ukraine.

    All who follow the war understand that Ukraine won’t gain the upper hand in the fight if the Russian homeland is a sanctuary. Mr. Trump himself said on social media this year that President Biden’s big mistake was refusing to let Ukraine “fight back” instead of merely defending its own territory. He was right then, not that his policy has changed much since.

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  • Opinion | Ukraine at the Rubicon

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    An elite Russian unit is escalating its use of drones in Donetsk, forcing the defenders to innovate.

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    Jillian Kay Melchior

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  • Opinion | Our Friends the al-Thanis

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    Trump gives the monarchy of Qatar a U.S. defense guarantee by executive order.

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    The Editorial Board

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  • Opinion | Will Europe Admit It’s at War?

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    Vladimir Putin declared war on Europe on Feb. 24, 2022, by sending his tanks to assault Ukraine. Or in December 2021, when Andrei Kartapolov, chairman of the Duma’s Defense Committee, threatened any country that stood in his way with a “preventive strike.” Or on Feb. 20, 2014, when the Russian army invaded Crimea.

    This year things are speeding up. Intimidations, provocations and aggressions are multiplying:

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  • Opinion | How’s Life in That New Palestinian State?

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    I have a few questions for the foreign governments that approved “ A Palestinian State for Hamas” (Review & Outlook, Sept. 23). What is its capital city? Can Christians and Jews freely practice their religion there? Can women divorce, own property, vote, run for office, get abortions? Will elections be regularly held? Will gay marriage be allowed? Finally, do all citizens of the “state” have the right to kidnap, rape, torture and murder Jews?

    The Jewish people are celebrating the New Year of 5786—many of them, living in the state their foes want to wipe off the map. Meanwhile, Hamas refuses to release hostages kidnapped almost two years ago. Useful idiots in the U.K., Australia, France and elsewhere reward them for their intransigence. Recognition of this supposed state is an affront to decency, morality and common sense.

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  • Opinion | The Key to Ukraine’s Victory

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    ‘Is there a Manstein in Kyiv?’ isn’t the right question.

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  • Opinion | Why Qatar Changed Course on Hamas

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    Doha had operated with Israeli complicity, but a strike on Qatari soil changed the equation.

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    Amit Segal

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  • Opinion | The Trump Deal for Israel and Gaza

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    The pressure now shifts to Hamas to release all the hostages and disarm.

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    The Editorial Board

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  • Opinion | Trump Flips the Global Script

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    Walter Russell Mead is the Ravenel B. Curry III Distinguished Fellow in Strategy and Statesmanship at Hudson Institute, the Global View Columnist at The Wall Street Journal and the Alexander Hamilton Professor of Strategy and Statecraft with the Hamilton Center for Classical and Civic Education at the University of Florida.

     

    He is also a member of Aspen Institute Italy and board member of Aspenia. Before joining Hudson, Mr. Mead was a fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations as the Henry A. Kissinger Senior Fellow for U.S. Foreign Policy. He has authored numerous books, including the widely-recognized Special Providence: American Foreign Policy and How It Changed the World (Alfred A. Knopf, 2004). Mr. Mead’s most recent book is entitled The Arc of A Covenant: The United States, Israel, and the Fate of the Jewish People.

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    Walter Russell Mead

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  • Opinion | Time to Abandon ‘Active Defense’ in Ukraine

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    The doctrine proved to be ineffective after Vietnam, but better ideas came with Reagan’s military buildup.

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    Mark T. Kimmitt

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  • Opinion | How Israel Can Punish France and Britain

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    Shutter the consulates in Jerusalem, which act as embassies to the Palestinian Authority.

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    Ran Ichay

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