| |  | | | | | | | Today marks four months since Hamas broke through Israel's border fence with Gaza, staging a brutal surprise assault that changed everything for Israelis and Palestinians and launched a war whose exact ending – and endgame – remain unclear.
Rebecca Bardach, whose cousin is among the 136 Israeli hostages still captive in Gaza, gives a glimpse of life inside an integrated Arab-Jewish school in Jerusalem where every morning kids and teachers show up, committed to figuring out how to live together.
Gershon Baskin who helped negotiate the 2011 Hamas-Israel hostage deal, which set a price of over 1,000 Palestinian prisoners for one Israeli soldier, writes that it should have been the last time Israel had to ransom its citizens.
Nabhan Khraishi, argues Israel is unlikely to "win" the war in Gaza: Hamas seems likely to emerge still in control and with overwhelming popular support. That is a problem for the U.S.-led plan to rebuff Hamas and "revitalize" the beleaguered Palestinian Authority in its place.
David Rothkopf describes the lunatic alternate reality that Trump and his rabid supporters are claiming that if only Trump were president, there would be no war in Gaza, Iranian threat, and that Netanyahu would meekly fall in line. | | |
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