EDITOR ’S NOTE: Dennis Prager is off this week. We hope readers will enjoy the following guest column by Stephen Moore.

Just as the Israel Defense Forces encircle the Hamas stronghold of Gaza City, calls for a “ceasefire” are accelerating. For the first week or two after the Hamas Holocaust of Oct.

Sam Bankman-Fried, the former CEO and founder of cryptocurrency exchange FTX, is on trial for criminal fraud and conspiracy. Bankman-Fried is accused of bilking investors out of billions of dollars when his company collapsed.

On Veterans Day, we honor all who have served in defense of our nation. Being a veteran means you were willing to give everything and expect nothing in return. It means that you volunteered to serve so others have a choice. The choice to say what you think, to worship as you choose, to be what you want to be, the choice to live where you want to live.

Since I wasn’t around when dinosaurs roamed the earth, what I supposedly know as facts about them came from what I read in books and learned in school. And even though I’m not critical of the need to educate our children (I was a teacher in both private and public schools), I can agree with songwriter and singer Bruce Springsteen that we sometimes “learn more from a three-minute record than we ever learned in school.” This means that some important things in life are not taught in school, or that some things taught in school might not be accurate.

God created time. He did not tell us (man) to change the time.

With one exception, nothing about Oct. 7 surprised me. The one exception was Israel’s unpreparedness. That also surprised nearly every Israeli. My guess is that a combination of Iranian technology and Israeli complacency and incompetence led to the greatest slaughter of Jews since the Holocaust.

When then-FBI Director Robert Mueller testified in the House Judiciary Committee on May 9, 2012, Rep. Elton Gallegly of California asked him about the threat of terrorists entering the United States by crossing the Southern border.

The Israel Defense Forces’ muchanticipated ground invasion of the Hamas-run Gaza Strip has not yet commenced, but the world’s attention has begun to shift away from the single bloodiest and most catastrophic slaughter of the Jewish people since the defeat of Nazi Germany 78 years ago.

The late Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein was an evil man, who ran an evil regime that did evil things. But in the years leading up to the second Iraq war, the U.S. government did not do a good job watching him.