Hamas Has Never Been an Honest Broker. The Board of Peace Should Not Start Trusting It
The terrorists will say anything to hold on to their weapons.
October 9, 2026
The longtime American consensus might be fraying.
“No provision in our constitution ought to be dearer to man than that which protects the rights of conscience against the enterprises of the civil authority,” said Thomas Jefferson to a group of Connecticut Methodists. While the American left in the past few decades has had few qualms about encroaching on religious freedom, Mark Tooley writes that hostility to religious freedom is becoming increasingly mainstream on the Christian right well:
The terrorists will say anything to hold on to their weapons.
The abuse of history.
Arms smuggling and violent crime have surged; terrorist militias follow.
“Non-Jews respect Jews who respect Judaism.”
The longtime American consensus might be fraying.
“No provision in our constitution ought to be dearer to man than that which protects the rights of conscience against the enterprises of the civil authority,” said Thomas Jefferson to a group of Connecticut Methodists. While the American left in the past few decades has had few qualms about encroaching on religious freedom, Mark Tooley writes that hostility to religious freedom is becoming increasingly mainstream on the Christian right well:
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