Nimrod Novik on the false premises and failure of vision that led to the Hamas attacks
In the long run, Israelis have no partner for peace other than the Palestinian Authority
FOLLOWING HAMAS’S Islamic-State-like terror assault, emotions are difficult to contain. They will be heightened by heart-breaking images of hundreds of funerals of the babies, children, women and men who were brutally slaughtered. Turning to analysis, then, is challenging. But it is essential.
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