What a difference a change in battlefield priorities, and a steadfast determination to vanquish a deserving enemy, makes. Unlike the slow yearlong quagmire that is Gaza, Israel picked up the pace and is now on a lucky streak in Lebanon. That’s an unfortunate development for Hezbollah. The longtime terrorist group now finds itself in real jeopardy of disappearing as a threat on Israel’s northern border.

IF it were possible to reconvene in the Independence Hall of heaven, I think it is fair to say that America’s Founding Fathers, peering down upon this moment in America—especially our political culture—might gallingly thunder, . . .

Apple’s iPhone 16 went on sale Friday and received an unexpected boost in demand from Islamic terrorists around the world. As Hezbollah disastrously discovered earlier in the week, trying to outsmart Israel by using pagers and walkie-talkies from the Stone Age (their favorite epoch, by the way), believing that such outdated technology made them impervious to Israeli intelligence, was a mistake.

Outrage dissipates with time. Left unattended, and the aggrieved become inured. Allow wrongdoers to go unpunished, and forgiveness is presumed. The once extraordinary, improbably, becomes quite ordinary. The moral universe demands justice, but not in a world of moral ambiguity.

The descendants of Camelot surely have not lived up to their dynastic potential as America’s first political family.