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Four months into Israel’s genocidal assault on Gaza, one might have thought that American policymakers and commentators would have learned some lessons.

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Discussion about the failure to see that Hamas had the capability and intent to do what it did isn’t being linked to something that would be obvious to any historian of colonialism: these intelligence failures are inherent to any colonial project.

Gaza’s oldest mosque, destroyed in an airstrike, was once a temple to Philistine and Roman gods, a Byzantine and Catholic church, and had engravings of Jewish ritual objects

About two months after the hostage exchange deal blew up, we can state with certainty that the decision to stop it was a terrible mistake. We must say clearly that the hostages have to be freed through a deal. That is the only way.

Just as the 9/11 attacks “did not speak for themselves,” neither did Hamas’s attacks on Israel. In remarks at a bilateral meeting with President Biden, however, Prime Minister Netanyahu strategically compared the Hamas attacks to the 9/11 ones.

To guarantee a strategic peace, Hamas is indispensable in any future political paradigm. The 1967 borders mean that Gaza and the West Bank, like East Jerusalem, should be treated as one territorial unit, one Palestine for all Palestinians.

Israeli officials said their goal is to ensure that Gaza will be an unlivable place once they end their merciless military campaign. Filling those tunnels with polluted water will ensure remaining residential buildings will suffer structural problems