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Essay (Geo-Politics):  Inhumane Times — Saturday’s devastating attacks have been met in Israel with rage at the government’s failures and demands for disproportionate vengeance. By Joshua Leifer

Essay (Geo-Politics):  Inhumane Times — Saturday’s devastating attacks have been met in Israel with rage at the government’s failures and demands for disproportionate vengeance. By Joshua Leifer | Writers & Books | Scoop.it
From archive.ph - October 13, 2023 11:02 AM
A member of the press standing in front of a house destroyed during Hamas’s attack on Kibbutz Be’eri, Israel, October 11, 2023. Photo credit: Alexi J. Rosenfeld/Getty Images
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About the essayist: Joshua Leifer is a Contributing Editor at Jewish Currents and a member of the editorial board of Dissent. His work has been published in The New York Times, The Guardian, The Nation, and elsewhere. (October 2023)
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Essay (Geo-Politics): Causes for Despair — Wars are usually harbingers of change, yet Israel’s previous wars have achieved no fundamental progress toward peace. By Raja Shehadeh

Essay (Geo-Politics): Causes for Despair — Wars are usually harbingers of change, yet Israel’s previous wars have achieved no fundamental progress toward peace. By Raja Shehadeh | Writers & Books | Scoop.it
From archive.ph - October 13, 2023 10:47 AM
Palestinians walking in Gaza City’s al-Rimal district following Israeli airstrikes there, October 10, 2023. Photo credit: Mahmud Hams/AFP/Getty Images.
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About the essayist: Raja Shehadeh is a lawyer and writer. His most recent book is We Could Have Been Friends, My Father and I, a finalist for the National Book Award. (October 2023)
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Essay (Geo-Politics): Gaza Without Pretenses — For years Israel and Hamas maintained an unstable equilibrium that kept the Gaza Strip contained. It was always likely to be temporary. By Tareq Baconi

Essay (Geo-Politics): Gaza Without Pretenses — For years Israel and Hamas maintained an unstable equilibrium that kept the Gaza Strip contained. It was always likely to be temporary. By Tareq Baconi | Writers & Books | Scoop.it
From archive.ph - October 13, 2023 10:54 AM
Smoke billowing in the aftermath of an Israeli airstrike on Gaza’s port, October 10, 2023. Photo credit: Mahmud Hams/AFP/Getty Images.
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About the essayist: Tareq Baconi is president of the board of Al-Shabaka: The Palestinian Policy Network and former senior analyst for the International Crisis Group on Israel/Palestine. He is author of Hamas Contained: The Rise and Pacification of Palestinian Resistance. (March 2023)
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