Chapter 14: Picking Up the Pieces of Our Grief

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Acknowledgments VII
3. Table of Contents IX
4. I. Introduction
5. Chapter 1: The Gates of Gaza 1
6. II. How Did We Get Here?
7. Chapter 2: Thirty Years Since the Oslo Accord: You Can’t Cross a Ravine in Two Jumps 13
8. Chapter 3: Can Israel Wake Up from Its Worst Nightmare and Do the Right Thing? 21
9. Chapter 4: The State’s Betrayal of Its Citizens 25
10. Chapter 5: The Failure Is the Result of Netanyahu’s False Reality 41
11. Chapter 6: What Is Hamas? Facts and Analysis 47
12. III. Notes from the War
13. Chapter 7: A War Chronology 53
14. Chapter 8: Flashes from the Life That Was 65
15. Chapter 9: I’ll Write While I Can Still Breathe 69
16. Chapter 10: The Arab Community Is Still in Shock from Hamas’s Massacre 71
17. Chapter 11: Comments on the Current Moment 73
18. Chapter 12: Fighting on Two Fronts: Between Hamas’s Atrocities and Israel’s Extremist Government 83
19. Chapter 13: Listen to Israeli Survivors: They Don’t Want Revenge 91
20. Chapter 14: Picking Up the Pieces of Our Grief 95
21. Chapter 15: Child Loss: A Mother’s Reflection 99
22. Chapter 16: From the River to the Sea 103
23. Chapter 17: The Imperative of Thinking in Dark Times 107
24. Chapter 18: Silencing Dissent: Suppression Tactics in Israel Since October 7 111
25. IV. Going Forward: Questions of Morality and Hope
26. Chapter 19: Reflections on International Law 123
27. Chapter 20: What I Believe as a Historian of Genocide 139
28. Chapter 21: On the Need for Moral Clarity and Political Complexity 143
29. Chapter 22: If Not Now, When? Time for a Feminist Peace Vision 147
30. Chapter 23: On Hope I: In Search of Generational Hope 151
31. Chapter 24: On Hope II: Hope in Days of Despair 163
32. Chapter 25: On Hope III: Terms of (Dis)engagement—Critique and Solidarity After October 7 169
33. V. Epilogue
34. Chapter 26: A View from Gaza 185
35. Chapter 27: Do We Treat Palestinians as Lesser Victims? 189
36. References 193