As Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gave a rare address to the U.S. Congress this week, I reflect upon my sobering visit to Israel this summer. Last September, I booked a spring trip to Israel to gauge the temperature surrounding the Abraham Accords, which were signed in September 2020, with a game-changing rapprochement with Saudi Arabia seemingly on the horizon. Advertisement Two weeks later, on Oct. 7, Hamas, the militant Islamist group that previously controlled the Gaza Strip, launched a series of attacks against Israeli civilian communities across the border. That, in turn, prompted an unprecedented military response from the...