By Freeing Hardened Terrorists, Israel Is Paying an Awful Price
An idea Jerusalem should never have accepted.
October 13, 2025
A weakened Hamas has made greater concessions.
The return of murderous terrorists who can rebuild Hamas and cause future wars is likely the greatest flaw in the U.S.-brokered cease-fire agreement. But the key complaint of Vox News’s Zack Beauchamp—who famously accused Israel of closing down the bridge connecting Gaza to the West Bank—is that Jerusalem could have accepted this same agreement in September 2024. Like the bridge, no such potential agreement existed, yet Beauchamp’s assertion is one echoed throughout Western media. Noah Rothman sets the record straight.
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The return of murderous terrorists who can rebuild Hamas and cause future wars is likely the greatest flaw in the U.S.-brokered cease-fire agreement. But the key complaint of Vox News’s Zack Beauchamp—who famously accused Israel of closing down the bridge connecting Gaza to the West Bank—is that Jerusalem could have accepted this same agreement in September 2024. Like the bridge, no such potential agreement existed, yet Beauchamp’s assertion is one echoed throughout Western media. Noah Rothman sets the record straight.
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