From a Washington Post column by Reuel Marc Gerecht headlined “There’s only one way forward after Gaza. Israeli’s must accept it.”:

Reuel Marc Gerecht, a former CIA operations officer, is a resident scholar at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies.

Reflecting on the Gaza war and the Palestinian-Israeli conflict more broadly, former president Barack Obama offered this regret: “I look at this, and I think back, ‘What could I have done during my presidency to move this forward, as hard as I tried?’ … But there’s a part of me that’s still saying, ‘Well, was there something else I could have done?’”