A statue of Josef Stalin was recently unveiled in Moscow's Taganskaya subway station. It's no anomaly. Since Vladimir Putin came to power in 2000, more than 100 monuments to the Soviet dictator have been erected across Russia.

This tells you all you need to know about Mr. Putin. More importantly, this should tell President Trump all he needs to know about Mr. Putin.

But Mr. Trump is juggling multiple crises, as are his advisors. So, in case they've missed this development, I will endeavor to explain its significance.

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Not so long ago, homicidal antisemitism in America was widely regarded as peculiar to neo-Nazis, white supremacists, and other far-right extremists, men such as Robert Gregory Bowers who, in 2018, murdered 11 worshippers and wounded six more at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh, PA.

Meanwhile, within the American left, antisemitism has been metastasizing. Last week, we saw the results.

A college-educated terrorist shot and killed – "allegedly" if you insist, but he admitted it and there's surveillance footage – Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim,

They were young Israeli embassy staffers, one Jewish, one Christian, though Elias Rodriguez could not have known such things.

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Lots of people have been duped by the Qataris. I was one of them.

For years, I watched as the Qataris spent billions of dollars in Gaza, a territory from which the Israelis had withdrawn in 2005 and which Hamas – a designated terrorist organization committed to the extermination of Israel – took over two years later.

But, I reasoned, surely the Qataris don't want their expensive buildings rubbled. And if their investments improve life for Gazans, couldn't that diminish Hamas's enthusiasm for jihad? And won't the Qataris counsel Hamas not to start wars likely to end catastrophically for Gazans?

I was naïve.

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President Trump has long been eager to stop armed conflicts. Last week he succeeded. But with two asterisks.

First: He has worked hardest – playing the role of neutral mediator – to end the brutal war of aggression Russia has been waging against Ukraine for more than three years. I see no progress yet.

Second: While it's no mean feat to bring about a "full and immediate ceasefire" between nuclear-armed Pakistan and nuclear-armed India – which the president accomplished with the assistance of Vice President J.D. Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio – don't confuse a temporary cessation of hostilities with making peace or even paving a "path to peace."

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A fourth round of talks between Tehran's envoys and Steve Witkoff, President Trump's lead negotiator, did not take place in Rome over the weekend as had been expected.

Neither Tehran's spokesmen nor the State Department gave a clear explanation for why, but I'll venture a guess: Iran's rulers want concessions in exchange for continuing to talk.

They think President Trump needs negotiations more than they do. Their assessment is based on years of palaver with Presidents Obama and Biden.

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