As Israel’s necessary drive to eliminate Hamas proceeds, everyone’s motives are growing ever more clear: The terrorists wanted their Oct. 7 atrocities to set the Middle East ablaze to derail the prospects of Arab-Israeli peace — and the “pro-Palestinian” protesters across the West really want Israel eliminated. Hamas’ intent was obvious to us from the start; even The New York Times woke up, with a report last week that “in the bloody arithmetic of Hamas’s leaders, the carnage is not the regrettable outcome of a big miscalculation. Quite the opposite, they say: It is the necessary cost of a great...