Israeli tanks and military bulldozers kick up dirt as they move, at times in lines that snake across the landscape, out of parts of the Gaza Strip after the White House brokered a deal between the Jewish state and the Hamas terror organization.

David May, research manager and senior research analyst at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, told JNS that the war in Gaza “has been devastating for Israel” and that the Jewish state’s “international image will be tarnished for decades.”

“More than 900 Israeli soldiers paid the ultimate price for defending Jewish sovereignty in the land of Israel, and thousands more will be left with visible and invisible scars,” May said. “But their sacrifice was not in vain.”

The Israeli hostages, whom Hamas has held prisoner for more than two years, a

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