It’s been just a few hours since the 20 living hostages have been returned to Israel after two years of being held in the tunnels of the Gaza Strip, and the wait now begins for the remains of the 28 souls who were murdered by their captors. Along with my co-religionists in the Diaspora and the citizens of Israel, I am elated about our hostages coming home and momentarily dreaming that some kind of peace in the Middle East may finally be at hand.

But I know better than to allow my dream to prevail over common sense. There is an old expression, “If you read the fine print of a contract before you sign it, you get an education; if you don’t read the fine print, you get an experience.” I fear Israel and the Jewish people are about to get an experience.

The hostage release doesn’t come withou

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