In 1973, the realisation that Israel was not impregnable put the country on the road to peace with Egypt. The greatest tragedy of the war with Hamas in 2023 will be the inability to do the same with the Palestinians.
Held by the Ottoman Empire until 1917, it passed from British to Egyptian to Israeli military rule over the last century and is now a fenced-in enclave inhabited by over 2 million Palestinians.
A statement by the Harvard Palestine Solidarity Committee (PSC) held Israel solely responsible for the violence that has unfolded in Israel and Gaza so far.