This Editor’s Note was sent out earlier Wednesday in ToI’s weekly update email to members of the Times of Israel Community. To receive these Editor’s Notes as they’re released, join the ToI Community here. On October 7, 2023, Hamas, the Gaza terror government that Israel had unfathomably assessed was interested in maintaining long-term calm across the border, fired almost 5,000 rockets into Israel as its invading forces set about massacring everybody it could find in a monstrous onslaught ultimately intended to destroy our country. On October 7, 2024, a year into Israel’s potent, ponderous and devastating response, Hamas’s much-reduced forces...