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The leaders who oversaw Israel's Gaza policy for 15 years are incapable of abandoning the erroneous ideas that collapsed on Oct. 7.

I just don’t think it will bring us any closer to a better position, Yonatan Zeigen, whose mother, Vivian Silver, is a hostage, said. Vengeance is not something to build foundations on. It is not a strategy. How many dead Palestinians will be enough?

Before October 7 Gaza received some 500 trucks of food and other supplies every day, including 45 trucks of fuel to power the strip’s cars, water desalination plants and bakeries. Women, children and elderly people are being killed – no one is spared

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Why calling for a ceasefire is the right move, politically and morally. Calling for a ceasefire would, at the very least, change the conversation—and make better use of the knowledge hard won from actions we regret.

When Palestinians resist oppression in ethical ways — by calling for boycotts, sanctions and the application of international law — the U.S. allies work to ensure those efforts fail, which convinces Palestinians that ethical resistance doesn’t work

After the signing of the Oslo Accords, fundamentalist rabbis branded Rabin a “traitor” and issued a din rodef against him, an authorization to assassinate him. Benjamin Netanyahu, then leader of the opposition, was the keynote speaker at two protests

We call on Israeli and Gaza authorities to cease all violations of international law and release all civilian hostages and bodies. We call on the international community to protect the Palestinian people in Gaza from Israel’s brutal, illegal actions.

Israeli security forces neglected the defense of communities near the Gaza Strip because they have been preoccupied with defending the settlers in the West Bank, their land seizures, and their rites of stone and altar worshiping.