The Yom Kippur War exposed Israel’s intelligence blind spots in 1973. Decades later, the Hamas attack shows the same failures persist. To secure the future, Israel must rethink its approach.

A last-ditch Republican stopgap to keep federal agencies funded through mid-November failed in the Senate late Tuesday, leaving the federal government on course to shut down at 12:01 a.m. ET Wednesday unless Congress acts. The measure fell 55–45 — short of the 60 votes required to overcome a filibuster — after Senate Democrats refused to back a “clean” continuing resolution that did not address their health-care demands.

Both U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin are now pointing at Europe for failing to do enough to end the war in Ukraine. Their alignment highlights deep fractures within the transatlantic alliance even as European states work to reduce dependence on Russian energy and prepare post-war security guarantees for Kyiv.