The man Democrats often compare to Adolf Hitler was in the Jewish state on Oct. 13, delivering a rousing speech to the raucous applause of the Israeli Knesset. After brokering a ceasefire deal that saw the last 20 living hostages held by Hamas in Gaza returned home, President Donald Trump welcomed “the historic dawn of the new Middle East.” It wasn’t hyperbole.

Trump praised Israel for winning the war but told those assembled it was time to embrace the peace. The former, of course, could never have happened without the latter. Israel decisively won the war following Hamas’s Oct. 7, 2023, attacks because Trump allowed it to do so. 

Anyone who has followed the Gaza conflict for more than a few minutes understands it’s a small miracle Trump convinced jihadists to release all the living hostages in return for a ceasefire. That accomplishment should not be overlooked. But Gaza was merely one prong of a multifront struggle with Iran. The Islamist regime had spent decades constructing an armed ring around the small Jewish state. Israel spent two years methodically, and brutally, dismantling it. 

The mullahs’ ally in Lebanon, Hezbollah, was severely wounded. This led to the collapse of the Syrian dictatorship. After Israel’s assassination attempt on the terrorist group’s leaders in Doha, Qatar realized there could be steep consequences accompanying the propping up and legitimizing of what was essentially an army of the Muslim Brotherhood. 

Hamas had run out of friends. After moving civilians out of Gaza City, Israel finally had its remnants cornered. This was no small task, considering Gaza perhaps houses the only army in the world that takes its uniforms off during the war and puts them back on afterward. But the days of deliberately sacrificing Palestinians to create martyrs for Western propagandists were coming to an end. 

Trump’s imperviousness to the demands of the elite consensus on foreign policy or “international community” has benefited him. As world leaders such as........

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