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Even Destroying Hamas Won’t Make Israel Safer
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Our Zoom call this week will be at the usual time: Friday at Noon EST.
Our guests will Dr. Lina Qassem-Hassan, the Chairperson of the Board of Directors of Physicians for Human Rights Israel and Guy Shalev, the organization’s Executive Director. They’ll talk about the unfolding public health catastrophe in Gaza.
Paid subscribers will get the link this Tuesday and the video the following week. They’ll also gain access to our library of past Zoom interviews with guests like Rashid Khalidi, Thomas Friedman, Ilhan Omar, Benny Morris, Noam Chomsky, and Bret Stephens.
Sources Cited in this Video
US officials tell the New York Times that Israel can’t destroy Hamas’ military capacity.
Mouin Rabbani on why Israel can’t win the war.
Jean-Pierre Filiu on Israel’s attacks on Gaza in the 1950s.
David Shipler on Israel’s initial support for Hamas.
Hamas recruits from families of people Israel has killed.
Benjamin Netanyahu’s plan to reduce the size of the Gaza Strip.
Israel announces it will build thousands more housing units in the West Bank.
Professor Heba Gowayed on Palestinian resistance.
Things to Read
(Maybe this should be obvious, but I link to articles and videos I find provocative and significant, not necessarily ones I entirely agree with.)
In Jewish Currents (subscribe!), I wrote about the campaign to abolish UNRWA.
For the Foundation for Middle East Peace, I interviewed UNRWA’s former Spokesman and Director of Strategic Communications, Chris Gunness.
Given my last newsletter about Abraham Joshua Heschel’s moral fury during the Vietnam War, I thought it might be useful to highlight rabbis and other Jewish leaders who are taking similar stands about Gaza today. If you have anyone to suggest, let me know. Here is British Rabbi Jonathan Wittenberg, who declared on February 13 that an Israeli invasion of Rafah “may haunt us, and the good name of Israel and the Jewish People, for generations.”
Jon Stewart’s on Joe Biden’s rhetoric about Israeli’s war.
Zaid Jilani argues that Palestinian activists could