Hamas’ signaling Friday that it will accept the peace plan President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rolled out last week have raised hopes for an end, once and for all, to the ugly war the terrorist group sparked two years ago Tuesday.

And that, indeed, it will lead to a permanent peace not just in Gaza but across the Middle East: an end to the nearly 80-year-old Arab-Israeli conflict.

Yet even if it does, Jewish pain from the horrific Oct. 7 massacre that ignited the war, and from the antisemitism it unleashed, will long endure.

At 6:30 that morning, with many Israelis still in bed, rockets from Gaza flooded the skies over southern Israel.

Thousands of Hamas terrorists — and Gazan civilians, too — stormed across the border to target innocent Israelis at a mus

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