TEL AVIV – October 7, 2023, is a date that will forever haunt Israel. The events of that day were grisly: Hamas carried out a vile attack on Israel, killing some 1,200 Israelis and taking another 251 hostage. But Hamas’s attack soon led to far greater atrocities, with Israel’s retaliation against Hamas devolving into a prolonged war of unimaginable savagery in Gaza. Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu started the war in Gaza without any realistic vision of how to end it. His chief concern was protecting his fragile coalition government – which depends on the support of far-right religious zealots...