President Trump’s threat of inflicting “hell” on Gaza is widely being dismissed as bluster: After all, isn’t the Strip already an earthly Hades? Yet, Israelis believe that if the deal for incremental releases of hostages collapses, they do have options to inflict further punishment on Hamas and end the terrorist group’s control of Gaza.  

“I have a Saturday deadline, and I don’t think they’re going to make the deadline, personally,” Mr. Trump said of Hamas while hosting King Abdullah II of Jordan at the White House on Tuesday. “I think they want to play tough guy but we’ll see how tough they are.”