The two-state delusion is dead: Israel knows it, the world must accept it The only question now is: Will the world accept that?
Israel is not the same country it was before October 7 and it will never be again.
Israel has changed; the Center has changed, the Right has changed, and the Left has changed.
Nearly a year and a half after October 7 Israelis are more conservative, more hawkish, and more pragmatic than they’ve ever been – for obvious reasons.
The world might still be debating the morality of Israel’s war in Gaza, but Israelis no longer have that luxury.
We don’t get to view this war as a theoretical exercise or a topic for a panel discussion in Brussels. For us in Israel, our current reality is about survival.
The enemy’s entire strategy and ideology are built on one goal: to wipe Israel off the map.
It’s not just Hamas – we’re talking about an entire culture of incitement, where, 1. killing Jews is glorified, 2. terrorism is rewarded with salaries, 3. and “resistance” means launching rockets at Israeli cities while hiding behind civilians.
Most Palestinians in Gaza support Hamas, the latest polls have shown.
That is a huge problem – the world seems to want Israel to pretend otherwise, to believe in some magical moderate Palestinian leadership that doesn’t actually exist, and if it does, it is marginal. Israelis, however, are done pretending.
