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Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar is dead by Israeli fire, and the region might at last be close to a “day after.” But what on Earth does that look like?

The Editorial Board reports that Sinwar had been an intransigent obstacle to a cease-fire deal that would involve the release of Israeli hostages and Palestinian prisoners. That might now be possible — if Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu can resist his “triumphalist tendencies,” the board says.

David Ignatius says that even if a cease-fire finally comes, Gaza remains “a desperate and chaotic mess, and Israel has no clear plan for its governance and stabilization.” David charts how Sinwar came up in Gaza, which for 50 years “has been a place of smoldering rage.” The dead Hamas leader was “schooled for violence,” he writes, offering some heart-stopping anecdotes.

The real horror, though, is what could occur next. If the “day after” is coming without better Israeli support than this, David writes, “a new generation of Sinwars might be coming, too.”

According to Donald Trump, Kamala Harris’s policy priorities include ridding the United States of livestock and indoor natural light. As Trump said at a Nevada campaign stop, “They want to do things like no more cows and no windows in........

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