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Netanyahu, Hamas, and the politics of catastrophe

Netanyahu, Hamas, and the politics of catastrophe

The tenacity of fanaticism

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Nick Cohen
May 30, 2025
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Today, like so many other days since 7 October 2023, reasonable people all over the world are asking: why the Gaza war cannot stop? First, the suffering of the families of the massacred Israelis at the hands of Hamas and now the suffering of the people of Gaza at the hands of the Israeli military.

Enough already. Surely?

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