Last Monday, not 48 hours after Hamas rampaged through southern Israel, killing more than 1,400 Israelis, ousted Republican speaker Kevin McCarthy held a news conference. He called for more, urgent aid to Israel—and suggested that maybe he’d be open to being speaker once more. He was not the only one. Senator Josh Hawley, Republican of Missouri, tweeted that “any funding for Ukraine should be redirected to Israel immediately.” And when news started to filter out that Jim Jordan, in his quest for the speakership, had (perhaps) promised some hawkish holdouts in his conference that he would allow a floor vote on a measure that would link aid to Israel and Ukraine, Matt Gaetz immediately jumped in to say the two should be considered separately.