On Oct. 7, 2023, when Hamas terrorists unleashed a horrific attack on Israeli civilians, few would have thought that the massacre would go down in Middle Eastern history as a watershed event.

A year later, that date is becoming a permanent marker on calendar as the day the Middle East finally turned the corner. In the beginning, the world treated October 7 as just another outbreak of violence and terror in the Middle East. But as events unfolded, the world is now looking at the bright prospect of achieving the unthinkable goal of peace in the Middle East.