| |  | | | | | | | It feels like a cease-fire might finally be in reach, 139 days into the war, amid reports of cautious optimism of progress in negotiations that would include a swap of Israeli hostages for Palestinian prisoners.
Momentum is being credited to a major push from the Americans. Hillel Schenker writes of Biden's ambitious post-war Middle East plans, arguing that the U.S. and its allies must do everything to exert their power to make it happen. The alternative, he warns, could be an endless state of war.
Kunwar Khuldune Shahid takes us to Pakistan, where the Gaza war has ratcheted up the heat and volume of Pakistan's already inordinate hostility towards Israel, but it remains unclear what anyone is really doing to save Palestinian lives.
Stephan Pechdimaldji, the grandson of Armenian genocide survivors, saysgenocide should never be used to shape and fit a certain political narrative even though, sadly, he writes, that is what has happened and is continues to.
Tyler Gregory describes the fallout of the war for Jews living in the San Francisco Bay Area, which has witnessed October 7 denialism at city council meetings, boycotts of Jewish businesses and public endorsements of Hamas, and lays out how the community is dealing with this moment in what is one of America's most liberal pockets.
David Christopher Kaufman writes that as a Black Jew it grieves him to see some young African Americans adopting the Hamas line and the copy-paste theatrics of shared struggle that, he argues, serve no one. | | |
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