Nearly a month after the Hamas terrorist attack on 7 October, and it seems Israel has made little progress towards its stated aims. Only a handful of hostages have been released and Hamas appears to be hardly weakened by weeks of pounding from the air. Most of Hamas’s leadership are still alive. Israelis and non-Israelis alike are still in shock over the worst massacre of Jews since the Holocaust, and the humanitarian crisis in Gaza is calamitous: according to Gaza’s health ministry, over 8,000 have been killed, most of them women and children. The UN has said more than 1.4 million Gazans have been displaced within the Strip.
No justification can rationalise the atrocities of 7 October, nor is it acceptable for the entire population of Gaza to pay the price for the actions of terrorists. To prevent a repeat of this scenario in future and understand the precarious position the region finds itself in today, we must examine the many diplomatic and political mistakes that have obfuscated the path to peace.
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