The speech a decent Israeli prime minister would deliver

Imagine an alternative universe in which Israel was led by a patriot who cared about the country and Jews worldwide and also possessed a moral compass

More than seven months after October 7, and this is the landscape: Half the hostages have not returned as many thousands of Gaza civilians there have been killed; Hamas has been degraded but no alternative to it has been allowed — by Israel! — to emerge; Israel’s international standing has collapsed, its relationship with the US is on the rocks, the eco…