It was difficult to imagine, in the immediate aftermath of the Hamas-led October 7 attacks, the utter scale of genocidal devastation that Israel would unleash on Gaza, and the extent of the world’s failure to intervene for two years. What was already painfully clear, though, was that the status quo that had preceded the attacks — of permanent Israeli occupation, apartheid, and siege — could no longer hold.
“Israel’s policy of separation and containment is failing before our eyes,” Michael Schaeffer Omer-Man, +972 Magazine’s former editor-in-chief, argued soon after October 7. “The international community will need to urgently and explicitly acknowledge that [this policy], in which it was complicit, is a broken paradigm.” ….more
