This episode will likely comfort the troubled and trouble the comfortable, so have a listen to it in a space where you can breathe, process and reflect.

In this episode, we discuss:

• A brief history of the disengagement from Gaza and the seige that has been in place since 
• Hamas' rise to power
• Ittay's experience of October 7 in Jerusalem
• Hannah's experience of October 7 in Melbourne
• How October 7th broke Israel's "conception" of Hamas and how Israel's response has broken Hamas' "conception" of Israel

RESOURCES

For further reading, we recommend looking at this piece by Adam Raz about the legacy of the 2005 Gaza Disengagement on our current situation

https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2023-11-23/ty-article-magazine/.highlight/it-wasnt-the-gaza-disengagement-but-netanyahus-policies-that-led-to-disaster/0000018b-fcf1-de73-a9bb-fef7ab240000

In the lead up to our next episode with Mushon Zer Aviv, please read:

https://medium.com/@mushon/your-empathy-is-killing-us-1a50a4fc0488

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