In April 2025, at Yale University, I met separately with two mediators involved in negotiations between Hamas and Israel in Doha. I asked each of them the same question: How does Hamas view the people of Gaza? Their answers were identical: “As martyrs for the...

Beyond Rubble: War as a Social Event When analysts speak of the war in Gaza, they typically reach for the measurable: the tonnage of ordnance dropped, kilometers of territory occupied, percentage of buildings rendered uninhabitable. These metrics are not wrong, but they are radically insufficient...

To understand what must happen in “the day after,” one must openly confront the day before. For seventeen years, between 2007 and 2023, Israel and most of the world treated the Gaza Strip not as a living society, but as a security dilemma. The prevailing...