When democratic leaders endorse a Palestinian state with Hamas still holding hostages and power in Gaza — as many are this week at the United Nations — I wince.

That’s not Jewish paranoia or un-Zionist pessimism – it’s healthy realism and self-preservation. Read through the French statement ’s diplomatic verbiage. It confirms that this push advances the campaign to bully Israel to do Europe’s bidding: “This strong act of diplomacy is also a contribution to the momentum that is building around the reformulation of a political horizon, one that is necessary in order to make the ceasefire … a concrete and permanent reality.” Hammer, meet nail.

Some Zionists, desperate for anything to restore the prospect of peace to an Israel at war, have endorsed the moves. Their craving for a sign of ho

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