From the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal, this is Free Expression with Jerry Baker.

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This week, Israel once again finds itself under intense international pressure as it

continues to prosecute the wars against its enemies. After almost three years of a multi-front

conflict that started when the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas murdered more than a thousand

Israelis and took hundreds hostage. Israel again faces something of a watershed war. The Jewish state

has so far prosecuted that war incredibly successfully. Initially, of course, pounding Hamas in Gaza,

then muturing Hisbalah in Lebanon, and most dramatically, of course, in the last

few months, delivering massive blows against Iran, the sponsor of anti-Israeli and indeed

wider terrorism. But as it continues to try to press the war against Hamas in Gaza, it continues

to struggle to complete that war, both because of the immediate challenges of fighting in the difficult circumstances it finds itself in Gaza, and also because of the inevitable humanitarian consequences of that war.

The most dramatic of those that we've seen in the last few weeks concern growing evidence of famine in Gaza, real

evidence of starvation caused by the disruptions to the delivery of humanitarian aid. International

opinion, of course, is rarely favorable to Israel, has turned even more hostile in the light

of this evidence of a new humanitarian crisis. And though Hamas has proved

itself expert at manipulating the circumstances extraordinarily well, both domestically in Gaza

and of course with international opinion, and indeed, of course, we can all agree that Hamas

should be ultimately responsible for all of the suffering that's taking place in Gaza.

It is also true that many friends of Israel are starting to express growing concern about the delivery of humanitarian aid and about the genuine crisis that exists.

President Trump this week talked about real evidence of starvation going on there.

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