For Israel, the Philadelphi Corridor must be a red line

While there are plenty of legitimate issues for which the government can and should be criticized, the issue of the Philadelphi Corridor is most certainly not one of them.

There is bitter irony underlying the raging debate about whether Israel should hold on to the Philadelphi Corridor at the southern end of Gaza even at the expense of a possible hostage deal with Hamas.

It was, after all, precisely 19 years ago this month, on September 12, 2005, that the IDF withdrew from Philadelphi...