6. Initial Comments on Hamas’s 7 October Counter-Offensive

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface 1
4. Part I Reflections on the Gaza Genocide and its World-Historical Significance 5
5. Part II Background to the Catastrophe
6. 1. The Whitening of European Jews and the Misuse of Holocaust Memory 61
7. 2. The Duality of the Zionist Project 74
8. 3. Zionism and Peace: From the Allon Plan to the Oslo Accords 83
9. 4. On the Electoral Victory of Hamas 112
10. 5. The Crisis in Gaza 119
11. Part III Gaza, Nakba, Genocide
12. 6. Initial Comments on Hamas’s 7 October Counter-Offensive 135
13. 7. The Impending Catastrophe and the Urgency of Stopping It 141
14. 8. 7 October in Historical Perspective 147
15. 9. Two Gaza Scenarios: Greater Israel vs. Oslo 156
16. 10. The Israeli Far Right’s Plans for Expulsion and Expansion 165
17. 11. The First Joint US-Israeli War 174
18. 12. Gaza: Is There Any Plan for “the Day After”? 179
19. 13. Netanyahu’s Bloody Onward March 187
20. Epilogue. Enter Trump 197
21. Appendix. Statement on Antisemitism and the Question of Palestine 217
22. Index 231