"Ecstasy and Amnesia in the Gaza Strip" — A conversation with Dr. Shany Mor

Israel from the Inside with Daniel Gordis · Nov 29, 2023 · 54m

I recently had occasion to read Dr. Shany Mor’s fascinating essay in Mosaic Magazine

which had a very interesting—and different—take on the current conflict and the lens through which we see it. We reached out to Shany, who kindly agreed to talk us through his thesis, in a conversation which we now share with you.

He wrote, in part,

It is the argument of this essay that the Palestinian predicament is the direct or indirect outcome of three Arab-Israeli wars, each about a generation apart. These are the wars that started in 1947, 1967, and 2000. Each war was a complex event with vast…