(Sunday Telegraph-UK) Editorial - Sadly, when the world's only Jewish state finds itself at war, Israel is too often also the first to be blamed. Yet the indiscriminate savagery of Oct. 7, which the Hamas leadership has vowed to repeat again and again, made clear what the terror group thinks about living alongside the region's Jews. Its founding charter declares Palestine an "Islamic land," rejects peace deals and says that Islam will obliterate Israel. Similarly, the Houthis in Yemen chant "Death to Israel!" and mean it. Behind both groups stands the implacable antisemitism of the Islamic Republic of Iran, a state on the verge of nuclear capability which is dedicated to wiping both Israel and its inhabitants from the map. For more than 70 years, every offer to make a deal for a two-state solution has been rejected by the Palestinians. It is not Israel that is intransigent, but Palestinian elites and their misguided Western supporters. It is the fault of Hamas, and their Iranian paymasters, that peaceful coexistence is now further off than ever. The path to mutual peace cannot be reached without defeating Hamas.
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