For two long years pro-Palestinian protesters demanded a ceasefire and rapid shift to some sort of magical, mythical “day after” for Gaza, Israel and Hamas. Well that “day after” has finally arrived — and guess what? Despite the severe death and destruction, Gaza today looks, feels and operates much as it did the day before Hamas attacked Israel two October 7ths ago.

Then, like now, Hamas functionaries thuggishly controlled most of Gaza’s daily rhythms — law and order, health and education, the distribution of aid and food. And they did so guns cocked amid the threat of summary execution. Now, since Israel’s military pull-back last week, gangs of Hamas militants have emerged from their terror tunnels to unleash an even more extreme version of the decades of the violent rule most Gazans ha

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