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<h1 data-aos="fade-down" id="daily-dose">Daily-Dose</h1>
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<h1 data-aos="fade-right" data-aos-anchor-placement="top-bottom" id="contents">Contents</h1>
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<li><a href="#from-new-yorker">From New Yorker</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-vox">From Vox</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-the-hindu-sports">From The Hindu: Sports</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-the-hindu-national-news">From The Hindu: National News</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-bbc-europe">From BBC: Europe</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-ars-technica">From Ars Technica</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-jokes-subreddit">From Jokes Subreddit</a></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>What Was the Point of George Santos?</strong> - Washington finally rediscovers how to give a grifting congressman the boot. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-local-correspondents/what-was-the-point-of-george-santos">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Bidenomics Is a Political Bust for Biden</strong> - On the perils of running a feel-good tour of America when the country is down in the dumps. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-bidens-washington/bidenomics-is-a-political-bust-for-biden">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>The Dead Children We Must See</strong> - It’s time for Americans to rethink their squeamishness about releasing the photos of the youngest victims of mass violence. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/the-dead-children-we-must-see">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Columbia Suspended Pro-Palestine Student Groups. The Faculty Revolted</strong> - Like other universities, the school has cracked down on activism among students, citing fears of antisemitism. Some professors think it’s gone too far. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-local-correspondents/columbia-suspended-pro-palestine-student-groups-the-faculty-revolted">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Why Washington Couldn’t Quit Kissinger</strong> - Despite his controversial record, the former Secretary of State never fell out of the good graces of the D.C. establishment. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/why-washington-couldnt-quit-kissinger">link</a></p></li>
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<li><strong>It’s okay to suck when you try something new</strong> -
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You don’t need to be good at a hobby to enjoy it.
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Allow me to list the short-lived pastimes I attempted and promptly deserted when I didn’t immediately excel: Pottery, softball, field hockey, surfing, violin, dance, designing novelty T-shirts, knitting, yoga, and, most recently, meditation. Easily embarrassed and uncomfortable asking for help, I’d rather drop a hobby than give myself time to improve. Mediocrity — or worse, actively sucking at something — feels gross.
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“It shouldn’t,” says <a href="https://www.lse.ac.uk/PBS/People/Dr-Thomas-Curran">Thomas Curran</a>, an associate professor in the department of psychological and behavioral science at the London School of Economics and author of <a href="https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/447202/the-perfection-trap-by-curran-thomas/9781847943842"><em>The Perfection Trap</em></a>, “because that’s the normal and natural part of the learning process.”
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Babies and children suck at, well, everything, because each experience is novel and perfection is hardly expected of infants making their way in the world. Kids also (ideally) exist in supportive environments where failure is encouraged and adults are quick to offer support, both literally and emotionally. Not yet burdened with self-consciousness or perfectionism, children try, fail, and try again.
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Adults, on the other hand, are pressured to optimize their time and performance: <a href="https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/2019/11/25/20975946/hobby-what-should-i-try-how-to">Side hustles replaced hobbies</a>, while <a href="https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/2019/11/27/20975989/perfect-mental-health-perfectionism">social media perpetuates the myth of perfection</a>. Anything less than excellence can be seen as failure. If you’re at all like me, you protect yourself from this vulnerability and avoid pursuits that might show a lack of competence.
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Although sucking feels uncomfortable, we shouldn’t shy away from activities we enjoy simply because we aren’t great at them. As the season for new habits and hobbies approaches, put your self-esteem to the side, experts say, and embrace the suck. “You can do something for beauty and pleasure,” says <a href="http://krinaldi.com/">Karen Rinaldi</a>, the author of <a href="https://suckatsomething.com/"><em>(It’s Great to) Suck at Something</em></a>, “that doesn’t suit your ego.”
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If you enjoy it, it’s worth doing — even if you suck
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Despite surfing for over two decades, Rinaldi says she didn’t catch her first wave until five years in. What kept her going was her joy in surfing. If you find delight and satisfaction in an endeavor, a lack of progress shouldn’t prevent you from continuing.
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Consider your motivations for picking up a new hobby, Curran says. Are you looking to project a certain image by learning to play guitar? Or do you have a passion for music? When you inevitably encounter hiccups in your burgeoning rock career, a genuine interest in the practice will be more motivating than how it looks to other people. “It shouldn’t really be about what’s the outcome,” Curran says. “What’s most important is you throwing yourself into the activity and you really engaging and embracing the learning process, the good and bad.”
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There’s freedom in openly sucking, unencumbered by others’ opinions. Very rarely are <a href="https://psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?doi=10.1037%2F0022-3514.81.1.44">outsiders thinking about your failures</a> as much as you suspect they are, studies show. And if they are, they may offer support and assistance, Rinaldi says. “People are really generous, and they want to help you,” she says. Bullies and jerks will always exist, but don’t discount the kindness of others within the hobby’s community to come to your aid.
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Partaking in an activity purely for the love of it helps you become less judgmental — of yourself as well as of others. “When you really are in the practice of sucking at something,” Rinaldi says, “it is very hard to look at other people around you and judge them.”
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Just because you suck now doesn’t mean you’ll always be terrible
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How you think about your abilities can affect your performance. There are two perspectives people take when it comes to success: <a href="https://hbr.org/2016/01/what-having-a-growth-mindset-actually-means">growth mindset and fixed mindset</a>. If you have a fixed mindset, you may believe you already possess all the skills and talent you will ever have and you may never improve regardless of your effort. Growth mindset is the belief that you can advance through hard work, support, and a different strategy. You may have a growth mindset in one area of your life (say, in regard to work tasks) but a fixed mindset in another (believing you aren’t creative). To foster a growth mindset, remind yourself that the first time you began any endeavor, you probably sucked, says <a href="https://www.dayagrant.com/">Daya Grant</a>, a certified mental performance consultant and neuroscientist. Then you got better.
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As you learn and build skills, however slowly, celebrate those little wins, Grant says. Mastered a beginner stitch? Finally got your bread to rise after many attempts? Sketched a picture of your dog that actually resembles your dog? Take a moment to marvel at your improvements. “A win is a win is a win,” Grant says. “It doesn’t really matter to the brain how big or small it is.”
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Set yourself up for these incremental successes by creating more “gentle environments” for hobbies, says <a href="https://psychology.yale.edu/people/julia-leonard">Julia Leonard</a>, an assistant professor of psychology at Yale University. In a performance-based culture where effort is praised but not actually rewarded (for example, you can study hard for an exam and still fail), give yourself permission to start a new activity not because you want to be the best, but because making progress is inherently satisfying. Handle your ego with kid gloves and encourage yourself the same way you would a child. “I have work showing little kids are way more optimistic about their abilities than older kids and adults,” Leonard says. “They’re in contexts that everyone is just cheering them on all the time because they’re just so excited about growth. That’s the mindset we need.”
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Feeling challenged isn’t a weakness, it’s an opportunity
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A common perfectionist tendency is avoiding potentially challenging activities out of a fear of being seen as incompetent or less-than, Curran says. “The first instinct is to not show vulnerability, just in case other people are there, they’re watching or waiting to pounce,” he says. “So we play it safe, don’t we? We stick to what we know. We stick to what we feel like we’re good at.”
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Discomfort when challenged is a <a href="https://www.vox.com/even-better/23785695/learn-something-new-every-day-retrieval-practice">sign of learning</a>, Grant says. But if you love the challenge, enjoy the struggle, or find the repeated attempts at success meditative, embrace the fact that you may be doing the thing, whether it’s karaoke or surfing, well enough.
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This reminder is one I’ll take with me as I embark on future endeavors where I may lack natural ability. Catch me at a pottery wheel or in the solace of my bedroom strumming my guitar. Or don’t. The results may not be pretty — and I do not care.
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Seven weeks into the war, 15,000 Palestinians have been killed and there’s no end in sight
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<a href="https://www.vox.com/israel">Israel</a> and <a href="https://www.vox.com/politics/2023/10/10/23911661/hamas-israel-war-gaza-palestine-explainer">Hamas</a> have resumed hostilities after a week-long pause — and now the fighting is moving into southern <a href="https://www.vox.com/2018/11/20/18080046/gaza-palestine-israel">Gaza</a>, where most of the region’s more than 2 million residents are living in overcrowded conditions without adequate access to food, medicine, clean water, and other basic necessities.
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What this means for the people of Gaza and the militant group Hamas is more open-ended death and destruction, while Israel chases an ambiguous goal that may not have any realizable markers to define success. While Israel wants the complete destruction of Hamas, the US has signaled that removing senior leadership would be acceptable. Meanwhile, the destruction and death on the ground, especially without a political future for <a href="https://www.vox.com/palestine">Palestinians</a> — or a Palestinian state — virtually guarantees further radicalization.
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Israel Defense Forces have killed 15,000 Palestinians in Gaza over the past two months of fighting and destroyed or damaged tens of thousands of buildings in the north during its campaign there. But despite the destruction, it’s not clear to what extent the military campaign is effectively rooting out Hamas — or how much more devastation the campaign will cause.
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The pause in hostilities ended just before 7 am local time on Friday in Israel, when it was due to expire after two extensions, with both sides trading blame for breaking it. <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-67589259">According to the BBC</a>, the IDF reported it intercepted a rocket fired from Gaza around that time, and later both sides accused each other of not abiding by the conditions under which Hamas would exchange hostages it took October 7 for Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli jails.
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During the pause, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/01/world/middleeast/palestinian-prisoners-released-gaza.html#:~:text=Israel%20released%20a%20total%20of,into%20fighting%20on%20Friday%20morning.">240 Palestinians </a>were released from Israeli jails, many of them minors and women, except for <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/01/world/middleeast/palestinian-prisoners-released-gaza.html#:~:text=The%20240%20Palestinian%20Prisoners%20and,led%20attack%20on%20Oct.%207.&text=Five%20of%20the%20detainees%20released%20were%2014%20years%20old.&text=The%20youngest%20girls%20were%2016%20and%2017%20years%20old.">64 18-year-old boys and one 19-year-old.</a> Hamas released 105 hostages, primarily Israelis but also Thai, Filipino, and Russian nationals, and an American child. The pause also briefly allowed for desperately-needed humanitarian aid to come into southern Gaza, though the number of trucks allowed in is still a fraction of what came in before the war — 160 to 200 trucks per day over the course of the pause versus <a href="https://news.un.org/en/story/2023/11/1143347">500 per day before the conflict</a>.
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Now that the fighting has resumed, the Israeli military has <a href="http://reuters.com/world/middle-east/israel-army-publishes-map-it-says-advises-gazans-safe-evacuation-areas-2023-12-01/">divided Gaza into small districts where civilians are to evacuate</a> if and when the IDF attacks the area they are located in. This comes after increasing pressure from the international community, and particularly from Israel’s ally the United States, that Israel must change its tactics and do everything in its power to minimize civilian deaths.
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There is little indication thus far that Israel is taking those warnings to heart, though; since early Friday morning when the hostilities were resumed, <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/gaza-negotiators-try-get-israel-hamas-agree-extend-truce-again-2023-12-01/">Israel has bombed around 200 sites</a>, according to the IDF, while Gaza health officials said that 184 people had been killed during the renewed bombings. And given that there’s little information available about Israel’s success in its objective to degrade Hamas’ military capabilities and its governing power in Gaza, it’s difficult to see how the war ends.
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Most residents of northern Gaza have evacuated to the south — as have, presumably, many Hamas fighters — which is overcrowded and where people are struggling to access the basics of daily life like water, food, and shelter.
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Continued, widespread bombing of civilian buildings to get at the tunnels underneath, where Hamas protects fighters and its supplies, has already caused thousands of deaths, but <a href="https://www.rand.org/pubs/commentary/2023/11/the-wests-incoherent-critique-of-israels-gaza-strategy.html">Raphael Cohen</a>, director of the strategy and doctrine program with RAND Project AIR FORCE told Vox there’s no real alternative.
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“Israel’s been seized with the tunnel issue since Operation Protective Edge, so at least since 2014, at least the past decade, and has invested a lot of time and energy into … how you detect these things, but hasn’t figured out a foolproof way of finding them, particularly without being there on the ground,” he said. “There’s no silver bullet to detect them, and once you find them, then you have to destroy the tunnel, and there’s no clean way to do it.”
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But an investigation by the <a href="https://www.972mag.com/mass-assassination-factory-israel-calculated-bombing-gaza/">Israeli outlets +972 and Local Call</a> this week indicates that in northern Gaza, the IDF was far less precise in its operations than necessary to keep from harming civilians — backing up what <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/oct/10/right-now-it-is-one-day-at-a-time-life-on-israels-frontline-with-gaza">Israeli officials</a> have already said about their approach being destructive rather than surgical. According to the investigation, based on interviews with current and former Israeli intelligence operatives, the military “has files on the vast majority of potential targets in Gaza — including homes — which stipulate the number of civilians who are likely to be killed in an attack on a particular target.”
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Some of those targets, which the military calls “power targets” are “not distinctly military in nature,” according to the investigation, and “include private residences as well as public buildings, infrastructure, and high-rise blocks.” The investigation found that the military has stepped up its attacks on power targets in the latest conflict, dubbed “Operation Swords of Iron.” That, in turn, has exponentially increased the number of civilian casualties, as has the use of artificial intelligence to generate Hamas targets, according to the report.
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“When a 3-year-old girl is killed in a home in Gaza, it’s because someone in the army decided it wasn’t a big deal for her to be killed — that it was a price worth paying in order to hit [another] target,” one source told the outlet. “We are not Hamas. These are not random rockets. Everything is intentional. We know exactly how much collateral damage there is in every home.”
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The IDF has destroyed much of northern Gaza’s infrastructure — <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-67565872">around 98,000 buildings </a>have been demolished or damaged in the north, according to a BBC review of satellite imagery. Throughout the region, about 60 percent of the housing stock has been damaged or destroyed, <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/gallery/2023/11/29/as-truce-holds-people-in-gaza-venture-out-to-survey-destruction">Al Jazeera</a> reported.
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But despite US officials’ urging to use smaller bombs and mitigate civilian risk, the US has sent Israel around 15,000 bombs and 57,000 artillery shells, according to reporting in the Wall Street Journal, including the so-called “bunker buster” bomb, which holds 2,000 pounds of explosives and is meant to penetrate underground concrete structures like the tunnels Hamas uses to operate.
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However, the transfer of the bunker-busters and other large-scale munitions “seems inconsistent with reported exhortations from Secretary Blinken and others to use smaller-diameter bombs,” Brian Finucane, a senior adviser at theInternational Crisis Group, and a former attorney-advisor at the US State Department told the Journal.
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Using explosives in populated areas is extremely dangerous for civilians — the <a href="https://www.unocha.org/explosive-weapons-populated-areas">UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs</a> has found that 90 percent of casualties from explosives in populated areas are civilians. And because Palestinians in Gaza cannot feasibly go elsewhere, more civilian deaths and injuries are all but certain.
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As the IDF pushes into the south toward the cities of<a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israeli-offensive-crowded-south-gaza-will-put-civilians-crosshairs-2023-11-18/"> Khan Younis and Rafah,</a> “it gets a lot more complicated,” Jon Alterman, director of the Middle East program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, told Vox. “And it’s partly complicated by the fact that they haven’t scored a lot of victories in the north, either in terms of capturing people or revealing infrastructure. A lot of buildings have been destroyed and a lot of people have been displaced, but in terms of genuinely hurting Hamas, the Israelis are not able to point to a lot of successes, and that will lead people to focus on the humanitarian consequences rather than the embedded capabilities of Hamas.”
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From the beginning of the war, Israel has said it intends to wipe out Hamas’ ability to operate militarily and to govern the Gaza Strip. But for all the destruction it’s wrought, it’s not clear how much progress the IDF is making, partly because Gaza is such a dangerous environment for journalists — making independent verification of the situation on the ground extremely difficult.
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Robert Blecher, director of the Future of Conflict program at International Crisis Group, told Vox that Israel could significantly degrade Hamas’ military capabilities, “but not at a cost that would be humanly or politically acceptable.”
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The IDF has not been forthcoming about how many Hamas leaders are part of the death toll in Gaza. The IDF claims to have <a href="https://www.inss.org.il/publication/war-data/">approximately 4,000 Hamas fighters total as of November 19, including 68 “high-profile” Hamas operatives.</a> Some estimates are as high as 5,000, but the true number is unknown. <a href="https://idfspokesperson.substack.com/p/we-tried-to-tell-them-about-shifa">Three hundred suspected Hamas militants</a> have been taken into Israel for interrogation, according to IDF international spokesperson Lt. Col. Richard Hecht. The IDF has claimed to have destroyed about 400 tunnel shafts in northern Gaza as well.
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Amid such destruction, the three Hamas officials the IDF reportedly most desperately wants to kill are still at large. Killing those men, Michael Eisenstadt, director of the Military and Security Studies Program at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy told Reuters, could provide “a very clear, symbolic and substantive achievement” for Israel — but even achieving that goal would inflict devastating tolls. “What if they can’t get the guys? Do they keep fighting until they get them? And what if what if they just prove elusive?”
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Hamas, for its part, is not known for advanced military maneuvers, Blecher said — primarily, their tactics are “hiding in tunnels and popping up behind forces after they advance,” picking off soldiers that way rather than inflicting mass casualties. However, according to the<a href="https://www.inss.org.il/publication/war-data/"> Institute for National Security Studies at Tel Aviv University</a>, Hamas still has as many as 15,000 rockets, as well as the thousands of militants still alive.
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“There’s not only the question of 30,000 militants in the Qassam Brigades, there is also the membership of the movement, which is at least an order of magnitude bigger, hundreds of thousands of people,” Blecher said. “That includes doctors, and lawyers, and professionals, and a whole bunch of civil society.”
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It will be impossible to eliminate Hamas’s ideological impact on Gaza, and the massive civilian death toll could lead to further radicalization, especially absent any conversation about a political future for Palestinians or a Palestinian state. That, according to Ami Ayalon, the former head of Israel’s Shin Bet intelligence service, is a massive failure of the entire project. “Now that it is obvious that the whole political concept and the policies that [were] led by <a href="https://www.vox.com/23910085/netanyahu-israel-right-hamas-gaza-war-history">Netanyahu</a> of managing the conflict — not to try to solve it — but managing, or the nonsense of shrinking the conflict collapsed,” he told the <a href="https://www.foreignaffairs.com/podcasts/missing-israeli-endgame-gaza-ayalon">Foreign Affairs</a> podcast. So I think it is irresponsible for us to send our military, our people, to the battlefield without defining a political goal,” that enables Israel and the Palestinian people to live in peace.
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But, as Alterman told Vox, Israel’s strategy for achieving military victory, whatever that looks like, is murky.
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“What does victory look like? To me that’s an important question, where Israelis have put forward some pretty maximalist ideas, but it’s unclear what the pathway looks like.”
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Israeli soldiers restrain Jewish settlers after they stormed the Palestinian West Bank village of Dayr Sharaf following the death of an Israeli man on November 2, 2023, amid the ongoing battles between Israel and the Palestinian group Hamas in the Gaza Strip. | Jaafar Ashtiyeh/AFP via Getty Images
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The world’s eyes have been on <a href="https://www.vox.com/2023/10/7/23907683/israel-hamas-war-news-updates-october-2023">Gaza</a> since <a href="https://www.vox.com/politics/2023/10/10/23911661/hamas-israel-war-gaza-palestine-explainer">Hamas</a>’s brutal attack on Israeli citizens on October 7 and <a href="https://www.vox.com/israel">Israel</a>’s retaliatory invasion that has killed thousands of <a href="https://www.vox.com/palestine">Palestinian</a> civilians.
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But another front in this long-running conflict is the <a href="https://www.britannica.com/place/West-Bank">West Bank</a>, a kidney-bean shaped piece of land on the west bank of the Jordan River and to the east of Israel that is home to nearly 3 million Palestinians and would make up the heart of any future Palestinian state. Alongside those Palestinian cities and villages, however, are Jewish settlements.
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Since the Six-Day War of June 1967, the state of Israel has planned and funded Jewish <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-65031877">outposts</a> throughout the <a href="https://www.vox.com/2018/11/20/18080034/west-bank-israel-palestinians">West Bank</a>; other settlers have moved in without the state’s explicit backing. The settlers believe they have a right to be there, even though <a href="https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/campaigns/2017/06/israel-occupation-50-years-of-dispossession/">most of the international community</a> views the settlements as illegal.
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These populations are largely separated by Israel’s complex security infrastructure, including military checkpoints, armed patrols, a <a href="https://www.btselem.org/topic/separation_barrier">separation barrier</a>, and color-coded identification cards and license plates. This system dictates all aspects of daily life for West Bank residents.
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Some settlers have for years <a href="https://www.vox.com/world-politics/2023/11/9/23945651/west-bank-israeli-settler-palestine-gaza-war-violence">harassed and attacked</a> the Palestinians living there, often <a href="https://www.yesh-din.org/en/law-enforcement-against-israeli-soldiers-suspected-of-harming-palestinians-and-their-property-summary-of-figures-for-2017-2021/">with impunity</a> and occasionally with the support of Israeli soldiers. In the weeks since October 7, however, the rate of violence has <a href="https://www.crisisgroup.org/middle-east-north-africa/east-mediterranean-mena/israelpalestine/settler-violence-rises-west-bank-gaza-war">significantly increased</a>. It is already the deadliest year since the Second Intifada, and is getting bad enough for the eyes of the world to occasionally leave <a href="https://www.vox.com/2018/11/20/18080046/gaza-palestine-israel">Gaza</a> and look to the West Bank.
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“I continue to be alarmed about extremist settlers attacking Palestinians in the West Bank,” <a href="https://www.vox.com/joe-biden">President Joe Biden</a> <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2023/10/25/remarks-by-president-biden-and-prime-minister-anthony-albanese-of-australia-in-joint-press-conference/#:~:text=I%20continue%20to%20be%20alarmed,have%20to%20be%20held%20accountable.">said</a> in late October, comparing the attacks to “pouring gasoline on fire.”
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Meanwhile, popular support for Hamas has <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/29/world/middleeast/west-bank-hamas-prisoners.html">surged</a> among Palestinians in the West Bank as faith in the Palestinian Authority <a href="https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20231022-gaza-war-heaps-pressure-on-palestinian-president-abbas">plummets</a>.
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This escalation of settler violence could, as <a href="https://www.vox.com/world-politics/2023/11/9/23945651/west-bank-israeli-settler-palestine-gaza-war-violence">Vox’s Zack Beauchamp explains</a>, “lead to a deeper entrenchment of Israel’s occupation and, quite possibly, a violent Palestinian response that brings outright war to the West Bank.” That would in turn “weaken the already-slim prospects of a negotiated solution to the <a href="https://www.vox.com/2018/11/20/18079996/israel-palestine-conflict-guide-explainer">Israeli-Palestinian conflict</a> in the foreseeable future,” he writes.
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The writer <a href="https://www.nathanthrall.com/">Nathan Thrall</a> is well acquainted with the dual lives of Palestinian and Israeli residents of the West Bank. Thrall spent a decade at the <a href="https://www.crisisgroup.org/">International Crisis Group</a> covering Israel, the West Bank, and Gaza. In his new book <a href="https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250291530/adayinthelifeofabedsalama"><em>A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy</em></a>, he tells the story of a Palestinian father from the West Bank searching for his son who’s gone missing after a school bus accident.
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Thrall spoke with <a href="https://www.vox.com/today-explained-podcast"><em>Today, Explained</em></a> host Noel King about the history of Israeli settlements in the West Bank, and why Israel faces strong criticism for its support of settlers, not just from Palestinians but also from some Israelis and the international community. Read on for an excerpt of the conversation that aired on November 20, edited and condensed for length and clarity, and listen to the full conversation <a href="https://link.chtbl.com/TEXWestBank">wherever you find podcasts</a>.
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<strong>Help situate us: What does the West Bank look like? And who lives there?</strong>
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The West Bank is quite hilly. It has a mountain ridge running through the middle of it, north to south. And it is <a href="https://www.un.org/unispal/document/human-rights-council-hears-that-700000-israeli-settlers-are-living-illegally-in-the-occupied-west-bank-meeting-summary-excerpts/">covered</a> with Israeli settlements. These settlements in the popular imagination are a set of caravans haphazardly erected on a hilltop. [Some newer outposts, particularly illegal ones, do consist largely of portable buildings.] But in fact, [many] are towns and cities that look <a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/annexation-residents-of-ariel-settlement-prefer-that-old-time-status-quo/">identical</a> to the communities of similar size within Israel proper. And they are connected seamlessly to Israel proper. The <a href="https://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2017/06/10/531777973/after-six-day-war-an-american-became-a-west-bank-settler">residents</a> of these communities include Israel’s elite. They include Supreme Court <a href="https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/2016-06-10/ty-article/.premium/israels-settler-on-the-supreme-court-only-bodes-ill/0000017f-dc17-df9c-a17f-fe1f61d10000">justices</a>. They include ministers in the Israeli government and many, many other government employees and leaders in industry.
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These people are able to live in these communities precisely because they have been <a href="https://www.nrc.no/shorthand/stories/in-the-west-bank-segregated-roads-displace-palestinians/index.html">segregated</a> from the Palestinian population that surrounds them. They have been given roads that cut through these Palestinian communities without having exits or entrances for the Palestinian communities that these highways pass through. This whole architecture, this infrastructure, gives the Jewish residents of these settlements the illusion that they are living in a Jewish-only zone where they don’t really have to confront or think about the Palestinians who are just beside them, and they can go very easily to their workplaces in Tel Aviv or Jerusalem and believe that they are living in a suburb just like any other.
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The settlement project began, really, as soon as Israel conquered the West Bank and East Jerusalem. Those settlements were <a href="https://www.wrmea.org/1994-november-december/speaking-out-israeli-labor-party-s-cleverly-concealed-west-bank-settlements.html">created</a> by the Israeli center left that had been in power since the establishment of the state in 1948 and remained in power until 1977. So for the first decade of the settlement project, it was driven by center-left governments. And it’s important to stress it was driven by the government. This is not a story of a bunch of radicals twisting the arm of the state against its will, which is how it’s often depicted. This is a state-driven project and it is in fact the greatest project, the <a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/budget-dedicates-billions-for-west-bank-roads-settlements-and-illegal-outposts/">largest and most expensive project</a>, that the state of Israel has undertaken.
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There are ideologically driven settlers who believe that the West Bank is the historic homeland of the Jewish people and that they <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/the-extreme-ambitions-of-west-bank-settlers">have every right</a> to build homes and establish Israeli sovereignty in these areas, no less so than Israel had a right to establish settlements in 78 percent of <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2017/5/23/the-nakba-did-not-start-or-end-in-1948">historic Palestine</a>, the borders of Israel prior to 1967. And this is an argument that they make to their detractors in Israeli politics.
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The second type of settler is just an ordinary middle-class or upper middle-class person who is moving there because there are financial incentives to do so. You can have a nicer home, a larger home, a less expensive home. And because it has all been set up in a way that makes it painless to live there and gives you the sense that this is really no different than any other suburb, <a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0962629819302094">members of the middle class</a> do move there. What happens over time is they often start to shift ideologically after moving there because every human being naturally wants to feel justified in what they’re doing.
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The third type are ultra-Orthodox Jews, and they historically had <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9734595/#:~:text=Though%2C%20in%20contrast%20to%20militant,for%20the%20fast%20growing%20population">avoided</a> living in settlements. But that <a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/black-is-the-new-orange-30-of-settlers-are-now-haredim/">changed</a>. And they live in a few settlements, but they’re very <a href="https://www.france24.com/en/20180509-ultra-orthodox-population-grows-israeli-settlements">large and dense</a>. And those settlements are, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/27/world/middleeast/27settlers.html">for the most part</a>, closer to the edge of the West Bank, closer to the boundary with pre-1967 Israel.
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The Palestinian and Jewish communities in the West Bank are <a href="https://www.nrc.no/shorthand/stories/in-the-west-bank-segregated-roads-displace-palestinians/index.html">entirely segregated</a> and the settlements have gates at their entrances and <a href="https://www.haaretz.com/2013-04-03/ty-article/.premium/outposts-illegal-no-mind-army-will-guard-it/0000017f-dbd6-db22-a17f-fff78de80000">security guards</a> at those gates. Palestinians are not allowed to enter them unless they are coming as pre-approved workers, as cleaners or gardeners or construction workers. That’s the degree of <a href="https://www.hrw.org/news/2010/12/19/israel/west-bank-separate-and-unequal">segregation</a> that exists in the West Bank. [Israel justifies these measures as necessary for the security of both Jewish and Palestinian populations, but human rights groups like B’Tselem say these tactics are <a href="https://www.btselem.org/publications/202111_state_business">entirely geared</a> toward making Palestinians’ lives unbearable and forcibly driving them off their land.]
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<strong>So this is a highly unequal situation. If you are Palestinian in the West Bank, you are subject to restrictions. You are subject to inequities. But then on top of that, Nathan, we hear about settler violence. What does this refer to? What does that mean?</strong>
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So settler violence is a broad term that includes everything from settlers going and <a href="https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2013-11-02/ty-article/.premium/scorched-earth-in-palestinian-olive-groves/0000017f-ed07-d0f7-a9ff-efc721890000">burning down olive trees</a> of Palestinians who live nearby. It includes <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/10/6/palestinian-killed-as-israeli-settlers-attack-west-bank-town-of-huwara">raids</a> on Palestinian communities in the middle of the night. It includes activities that Israeli officials even have referred to as <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/15/middleeast/huwara-west-bank-settler-attack-cmd-intl/index.html">pogroms</a>, such as the burning of all kinds of property in the town of <a href="https://apnews.com/article/israel-palestinians-hawara-settlers-west-bank-234e49a04f712bab11aa236db0f784fb">Huwara</a> earlier this year or in the town of <a href="https://www.ynetnews.com/article/sjy2e00gdn">Turmus Ayya</a> last June.
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The Palestinians who are attacked are entirely defenseless in this situation. [Israel points to terror attacks by Hamas, including a <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/nov/30/jerusalem-bus-stop-shooting-attack-killed-injured">November 30 shooting</a> at a bus stop in west Jerusalem, as a reason to maintain security measures.] They know that if they lay a single finger on an armed settler who enters their home, they can be arrested and put in jail and locked up in what is known as <a href="https://www.vox.com/world-politics/2023/11/22/23972908/palestinian-prisoners-israel-administrative-detention">administrative detention</a>, which is detention without trial or charge. Israel can do that for six months to somebody, and then extend it indefinitely.
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And so when a Palestinian encounters a settler militia, they know that putting their finger on that settler is not putting their hand on an individual. It’s putting their hand on the entire state of Israel, this enormous machine that controls their every movement and that can arrest them and their family members at any moment.
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The law doesn’t fit in here because there is total impunity for the settlers. When there are cases filed against settlers for attacks on Palestinians, fewer than 10 percent result in an indictment and only 3 percent result in a conviction. That’s <a href="https://www.hrw.org/news/2023/07/27/israel-settlers-rampage-palestinian-americans-west-bank-hometown">data</a> from the last 18 years. And now after October 7, when most of the regular army is <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/10/11/how-big-is-israels-military-and-how-much-funding-does-it-get-from-the-us">off in Gaza</a> or on the border with Lebanon, you have those same settlers who were attacking the Palestinian communities several months ago, now in uniform [called up from the reserves], with <a href="https://www.thenation.com/article/world/west-bank-israeli-settler-attacks-palestinians/">full authority</a> to do those same attacks as the army.
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<strong>We know that there will be an end in Gaza. We don’t know what it is. And it sounds as though the </strong><a href="https://www.vox.com/23910085/netanyahu-israel-right-hamas-gaza-war-history"><strong>Netanyahu</strong></a><strong> government and the international community are actively debating, discussing, what the end in Gaza will look like. But in the West Bank, it seems as though there is no end in mind. How do you envision this playing out? Where do you think this is all leading, Nathan?</strong>
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No matter how long this war in Gaza lasts, whether it’s weeks or months or years, at the end of it, we are going to be in the situation that we were in on October 6, which is 7 million Palestinians, 7 million Jews, <a href="https://imeu.org/article/what-every-new-member-of-congress-needs-to-know-about-palestine-israel-poli">all living under Israeli rule</a>. And the vast majority of those Palestinians don’t have <a href="https://www.hrw.org/news/2019/12/17/qa-born-without-civil-rights">basic civil rights</a>. That’s the situation that the international community and the United States will need to address if they want to see an end to this recurrent bloodshed.
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“Well” the farmer said, “I was working in my barn, replacing the oil filter on the tractor when I heard somebody scream, then a loud ‘wham’, and then silence. I rushed outside and saw my farmhand, dead in the middle of the yard, with a pool of blood forming around his head”
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“There weren’t any people around, but there was my old faithful cow Mary, my trusty farm dog Darren, my horse, Geoffrey, and a couple of sheep, Michael and George. When I asked them who did it, they just looked accusingly at each other”
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Finally, at their turn, the sheep leapt onto stage, resplendent in sequinned jumpsuits and started tap dancing with incredible zeal. They leapt through the air, their sequins spinning like a rainbow in the night sky, tumbled, turned and kicked with unimaginable agility. But yet… something wasn’t right. Their movements didn’t match the music - sometimes they were ahead of the beat, sometimes behind.
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So they wait until Daddy gets home, and then Mummy says “Now dear, what were you saying about Daddy and the strange lady?”
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“Well,” says the little girl, “Daddy told me to stay downstairs while they went upstairs, but I followed them without Daddy seeing me, and I saw them hugging and kissing at the top of the stairs. Then they went into your bedroom and shut the door, but I went up and looked through the keyhole.”
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“I saw them hugging and kissing some more, and then they started to take each other’s clothes off, and they carried on until they had nothing on, and then the lady got on the bed and Daddy got on top of her.”
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>An interviewer once asked me. “I heard you were very fast at math”.</strong> - <!-- SC_OFF --></p>
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Me: “yes, as a matter of fact I am” Interviewer: “Whats 14x27” Me: “49” Interviewer: “that’s not even close” me: “yeah, but it was fast”
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One day the single guy climbed up a tree to search for a resuce ship. The couple were laying on the beach, minding their own business. Suddenly they heard the man yell down at them “Hey! Stop fucking down there!”
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“You heard me! Stop screwing down there! Get a room!”
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The couple, startled, only looked at each other in disbelief. “What are you on about up there?” he yelled back.
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“I can see you two fucking down there, plain as day!” the man replied.
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“We’re laying next to each other. We’re not even touching!”
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The man climbed down from the tree. “Huh. I’ll be damned. From up there it looks like you guys are having a go at it. Climb up and have a look for yourself if you don’t believe me.”
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“Well, alright then.” the husband said. “I’ll put an end to this foolishness.” As he climbed up the tree, his wife and the other guy tore their clothes off and began screwing on the beach under the tree.
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“Holy shit!” the said the husband. “It really does look like you’re screwing down there!”
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Edit: TIL that this joke I first heard 30 years ago is actually 700 years old!
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