The day after the war, why Israel’s total victory is the world’s best hope - opinion

Israel’s ultimate triumph will not end with Hamas’s defeat. It will forge a new national consensus: from the river to the sea, there will be one state, the State of Israel.

Israelis who fought 48 years ago in the Kippur war in 1973 drove up by car and motorcycle today to the Golan Heights for the annual memorial for the Tel Saqi battle- one of the most critical battles of the Yom Kippur War and raised a huge 8x10 metres Israeli national memorial flag.

Israelis who fought 48 years ago in the Kippur war in 1973 drove up by car and motorcycle today to the Golan Heights for the annual memorial for the Tel Saqi battle- one of the most critical battles of the Yom Kippur War and raised a huge 8x10 metres Israeli national memorial flag.

(photo credit: MICHAEL GILADI/FLASH90)

ByYITZHAK JERRY GERSHON

JUNE 22, 2025 15:31

Updated: JUNE 22, 2025 15:50

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