"If they're at the beach, the war is over. And if the war is over, let's admit the war is over."

Israel from the Inside with Daniel Gordis · Apr 21, 2024 · 1m

On a week in which Israel was attacked by 300 missiles from Iran, it ironically seemed that the story that got most people talking was a series of images of Gazans having fun at the beach. (Iran also led to the hostages dropping off the agenda, to the horror of many of us.)

Of course, there was the to-be-expected snark response to the beach photos— “they don’t look like they’re starving.” But most people here understood that photos or videos of a few hundred people at the beach tell us nothing about the welfare of some 2,000,000 people. There are conflicting views here as to how serious the…