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  • A Coordinated Squeeze Play Forced Hamas to Accept a Deal It Didn’t Want

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    SHARM EL-SHEIKH—When Hamas leader Khalil Al-Hayya first saw President Trump’s plan for peace in Gaza, which demanded his group disarm with few concrete steps to make sure Israel would end the war, his immediate reaction was no.

    The plan, heavily amended by Israel and presented to Hamas by the Qatari prime minister and Egypt’s spy chief, looked nothing like what Hayya had been led to expect, officials familiar with the discussions said. Hayya, who less than a month earlier had been a target of Israel’s audacious attack on Hamas in Qatar, told his visitors the group would keep its Israeli hostages until it had enforceable guarantees the war would end.

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  • North Korea’s Kim Flaunts New ICBM Able to Reach U.S.

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    SEOUL—North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, armed with nuclear weapons and powerful friends, signaled his determination to stand up to Washington with an elaborate military parade Friday night that featured advancements in an arsenal capable of striking the U.S.

    Fresh from staking his place on the global stage at Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s parade of military firepower in Beijing last month, Kim oversaw a display starring his new solid-fuel intercontinental ballistic missile Friday at Pyongyang’s Kim Il Sung Square on the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the ruling Workers’ Party. The ICBM was called the “Hwasong-20.”

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  • Nobel Peace Prize Awarded to Venezuelan Opposition Leader María Corina Machado

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    Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for her work promoting democracy and fighting dictatorship in the country.

    Announcing the prize, Nobel Committee Chairman Jorgen Watne Frydnes described Machado as a “brave and committed champion of peace…who keeps the flame of democracy burning amid a growing darkness.”

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  • Opinion | Ukraine is Starving Russia of Oil

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    Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has labeled his military’s strikes on Russia’s oil infrastructure “the most effective sanctions.” Meanwhile, reports indicate that alongside urging Europe and India to halt purchases of Russian oil, Washington plans to share additional intelligence with Ukraine on Russian refineries, pipelines and other energy infrastructure.

    Most discussions about these “sanctions” have focused on their financial implications for Russia. Vladimir Putin relies heavily on corruption and patronage, with oil and gas serving as key revenue streams. Disrupting the flow could force Mr. Putin to choose between sustaining the war and maintaining the payouts to oligarchs and citizens that secure his political backing—though such an economic squeeze would take some time.

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    Michael Bohnert

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  • Russian Drones Turn the Streets of Kherson Into a Civilian Kill Zone

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    Oksana Grytsenko

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    MYKOLAIV, Ukraine—Yaroslav Pavlivskiy waved his hands as he sprang from his car, pleading for mercy with the operator of a Russian drone circling overhead as he drove home from a market in the southern city of Kherson.

    The operator flicked a switch to release a grenade, which exploded and tore into the legs of the 69-year-old pensioner. A passerby used a belt as a tourniquet to stop him from losing too much blood, saving his life.

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    Oksana Grytsenko

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  • Opinion | Free Gaza’s Palestinians from Hamas

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    Trump’s peace plan is a path to freedom and stability for the strip’s oppressed residents.

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    Moumen Al-Natour

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  • For Israel’s Hostage Families, Another Anxious Wait for Their Loved Ones to Be Released  

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    TEL AVIV—For two minutes on Monday, Dalia Cusnir allowed herself to hope for the first time in months.

    Negotiators, including President Trump’s envoys Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff, were trickling into Egypt this week to try to seal a deal that would end the war in Gaza and bring home Israeli hostages still held there by Hamas. One of them is her brother-in-law, Eitan Horn.

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  • How China Threatens to Force Taiwan Into a Total Blackout

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    Chinese military exercises around Taiwan have sparked an urgent effort in Taipei and Washington to address a critical vulnerability on the island: It is almost entirely dependent on imported fuel.

    Recent Chinese drills showed how China would encircle and strangle Taiwan by blocking its life-sustaining shipping lanes, a strategy with potentially less risk than staging a full-scale invasion, as Beijing pursues its stated goal of gaining control of the self-ruled island, by force if necessary.

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    James T. Areddy

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  • Opinion | The Oct. 7 Warning for the U.S. on China

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    Hamas’s shock troops poured across Israel’s border two years ago, kidnapping, raping and killing civilian men, women and children. Israel’s bitter experience offers lessons America should learn before our own moment of reckoning.

    The most important is that the hypothetical war can actually happen. Even if we’re intellectually prepared, there’s a risk that years of relative peace has lulled us into a false sense of security. The Israeli defense establishment never truly believed Hamas would launch a full-scale invasion. They viewed Gaza as a chronic but manageable problem—one for diplomats and intelligence officers, distant from the daily concerns of citizens. Israeli politicians and generals also spoke of open conflict with the Iran-led Islamist axis much like their American counterparts speak of China and a Taiwan crisis—the pacing threat and the most likely test, yes, but ultimately a question for tomorrow. Then tomorrow came.

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    Mike Gallagher

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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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  • U.K. Government Asked Pro-Palestinian Supporters Not to March on Oct. 7. They Did Anyway.

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    LONDON—After last week’s terrorist attack on a synagogue in Manchester, the U.K. government is struggling over how to manage near daily pro-Palestinian protests that officials say have fueled a rise in antisemitism and left many British Jews feeling alienated in their own country.

    On Tuesday—the second anniversary of the Oct. 7, 2023, attacks that marked the largest loss of Jewish life since the Holocaust—pro-Palestinian protests were held in university campuses across the country, despite an unusual request from Prime Minister Keir Starmer for the protests to be called off given it was the anniversary of the attack.

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  • The Sticking Points to a Gaza Hostage Deal

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    SHARM EL SHEIKH, Egypt—This week will show whether President Trump’s optimism about a deal to end the war in Gaza can survive the realities that have undermined many past attempts.

    Negotiators were arriving Tuesday in the Red Sea resort town of Sharm El Sheikh for talks on the first step in Trump’s 20-point plan to end the war—a deal to free all the remaining Israeli hostages held by Hamas in exchange for Palestinians imprisoned by Israel.

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  • After Two Years of War, Israel Is Stronger—and More Isolated—Than Ever

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    The war in Gaza has spurred a global backlash that threatens Israel’s long-term prospects.

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    Yaroslav Trofimov

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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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  • International Criminal Court Convicts Sudanese Militia Leader of War Crimes

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    The International Criminal Court found a Sudanese militia leader guilty of committing war crimes and crimes against humanity in Darfur two decades ago, a rare conviction for an institution whose international standing is under threat from U.S. sanctions and sexual assault allegations against its chief prosecutor.

    A panel of three judges at the ICC in The Hague convicted Ali Muhammad Ali Abd-Al-Rahman of being a commander in the Janjaweed, a feared militia of mostly Arab fighters who terrorized civilians across the Darfur region in 2003 and 2004, in a conflict that left hundreds of thousands dead. Abd-Al-Rahman ordered his fighters to brutalize villages in the region where they engaged in mass rape and killings, the judges said Monday. Abd-Al-Rahman exhorted his soldiers with the phrase “wipe out and sweep away” before they attacked, according to the decision.

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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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  • Exclusive | Hamas Is Still at War With Itself Over Terms of Trump’s Peace Plan

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    To the world, Hamas said it has accepted major parts of President Trump’s peace plan. Internally, Hamas remains bitterly divided over how to proceed.

    On Friday, the U.S.-designated terrorist group said it was willing to release hostages and hand over Gaza, a landmark statement boosting Trump’s push for an end to the war. But importantly, Hamas used hedged language that some observers saw as problematic to clinching a final peace.

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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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  • Putin Warns West as Drones Appear in European Skies

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    WARSAW—For weeks, drones have been mysteriously appearing in European skies, closing airports from Warsaw to Munich. Western officials suspect that Russia is behind the campaign, seeking to sow fear in European capitals, probe NATO weaknesses and raise the stakes over the continent’s support for Ukraine.

    The latest sightings came late Thursday, when Germany closed the Munich airport, grounding 17 departing flights and stranding nearly 3,000 passengers during Oktoberfest. Separately, Belgium said on Friday it was investigating overnight drone sightings above a military base in the east of the country.

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    Thomas Grove

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  • Trump Sets Sunday Evening Deadline For Hamas to Agree to Peace Deal

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    WASHINGTON–President Trump on Friday set a Sunday deadline for Hamas to agree to a cease-fire in Gaza, giving the group an ultimatum before “all HELL, like no one has ever seen before, will break out.”

    The warning comes as Trump aims to have the U.S.-designated terrorist group sign onto a peace deal that the U.S. and Israel agreed to Monday. Announcing that agreement alongside Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Trump said Hamas’s failure to accept the 20-point plan would see him provide Israel his “full backing to finish the job of destroying the threat of Hamas.”

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