BETWEEN A ROCK AND A HARD PLACE REVIEWED
Remember what caused the ongoing war with Hamas in the Gaza Strip? On October 7, 2023, Hamas terrorists waged the deadliest attack on Jews since the Holocaust — slaughtering babies, committing sexual violence, burning whole families alive, and taking over 250 civilians hostage. Hamas murdered more than 1,200 Israelis during the attack. The area known today as the Gaza Strip was allocated in the 1947 UN Partition Plan for a prospective Arab state. Its borders were based on the ceasefire line that ended the fighting after the 1948 War of Independence. The failure of further diplomatic efforts to end the Arab-Israeli conflict turned, what was intended to be a temporary armistice line, into a de-facto boundary, and the Gaza Strip into a distinct geopolitical entity. L ocked in one of the world’s most densely populated areas, along with unsettled political status, Gaza has always been a focal point of the Israeli-Arab conflict. It has also been, perhaps, the m...