What Will Israel Be After Gaza?

The war in Gaza is the tragic culmination of all the processes Israeli society has undergone since its birth.

Israeli soldiers on a tank near the border with Gaza, January 19, 2024. (Photo by Amir Levy/Getty Images)

By Michael Sfard

Michael Sfard is an Israeli human rights lawyer and the author of The Wall and the Gate: Israel, Palestine, and the Legal Battle for Human Rights and Occupation From Within: How Israel’s Oppression of Palestinians Turned Inwards, from which this essay is adapted.