It appears to have been a good week for Israel regarding the hostages taken by Hamas two years ago next Tuesday. Judging by the statement issued by Hamas on Friday, the Trump peace proposal may well achieve their return.

It was a usual norm-bending week for President Donald Trump, who incoherently addressed an unprecedented assemblage of his braided, medalled and starred military leadership neither about China nor Russia, but rather on deploying troops domestically against his partisan rivals — “the enemy within.”

Trump speaks about the Democratic administrations of America’s biggest cities in language he would never use for Xi Jinping or Vladimir Putin. If, instead of running again for president, Kamala Harris could somehow become mayor of Moscow, Trump would authorize Ukrainian missil

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