This episode will likely comfort the troubled and trouble the comfortable, so have a listen to it in a space where you can breathe, process and reflect.
In this episode, we discuss:
- A brief history of the disengagement from Gaza and the seige that has been in place since
- Hamas' rise to power
- Ittay's experience of October 7 in Jerusalem
- Hannah's experience of October 7 in Melbourne
- How October 7th broke Israel's "conception" of Hamas and how Israel's response has broken Hamas' "conception" of Israel
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For further reading, we recommend looking at this piece by Adam Raz about the legacy of the 2005 Gaza Disengagement on our current situation
https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2023-11-23/ty-article-magazine/.highlight/it-wasnt-the-gaza-disengagement-but-netanyahus-policies-that-led-to-disaster/0000018b-fcf1-de73-a9bb-fef7ab240000
In the lead up to our next episode with Mushon Zer Aviv, please read:
https://medium.com/@mushon/your-empathy-is-killing-us-1a50a4fc0488
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