The Gates of Gaza: Critical Voices from Israel on October 7 and the War with Hamas / / ed. by Lihi Ben Shitrit.

Following the horrific attack on October 7, support for a devastating military retaliation and resolution has taken center stage. Nevertheless, within Israel, numerous critical voices cast doubt on the sustainability of such approaches. They champion the principles of morality, legality, and common...

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Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2024]
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Year of Publication:2024
Language:English
Series:De Gruyter Disruptions , 4
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Physical Description:1 online resource (XII, 202 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Acknowledgments
  • Table of Contents
  • I. Introduction
  • Chapter 1: The Gates of Gaza
  • II. How Did We Get Here?
  • Chapter 2: Thirty Years Since the Oslo Accord: You Can’t Cross a Ravine in Two Jumps
  • Chapter 3: Can Israel Wake Up from Its Worst Nightmare and Do the Right Thing?
  • Chapter 4: The State’s Betrayal of Its Citizens
  • Chapter 5: The Failure Is the Result of Netanyahu’s False Reality
  • Chapter 6: What Is Hamas? Facts and Analysis
  • III. Notes from the War
  • Chapter 7: A War Chronology
  • Chapter 8: Flashes from the Life That Was
  • Chapter 9: I’ll Write While I Can Still Breathe
  • Chapter 10: The Arab Community Is Still in Shock from Hamas’s Massacre
  • Chapter 11: Comments on the Current Moment
  • Chapter 12: Fighting on Two Fronts: Between Hamas’s Atrocities and Israel’s Extremist Government
  • Chapter 13: Listen to Israeli Survivors: They Don’t Want Revenge
  • Chapter 14: Picking Up the Pieces of Our Grief
  • Chapter 15: Child Loss: A Mother’s Reflection
  • Chapter 16: From the River to the Sea
  • Chapter 17: The Imperative of Thinking in Dark Times
  • Chapter 18: Silencing Dissent: Suppression Tactics in Israel Since October 7
  • IV. Going Forward: Questions of Morality and Hope
  • Chapter 19: Reflections on International Law
  • Chapter 20: What I Believe as a Historian of Genocide
  • Chapter 21: On the Need for Moral Clarity and Political Complexity
  • Chapter 22: If Not Now, When? Time for a Feminist Peace Vision
  • Chapter 23: On Hope I: In Search of Generational Hope
  • Chapter 24: On Hope II: Hope in Days of Despair
  • Chapter 25: On Hope III: Terms of (Dis)engagement—Critique and Solidarity After October 7
  • V. Epilogue
  • Chapter 26: A View from Gaza
  • Chapter 27: Do We Treat Palestinians as Lesser Victims?
  • References