Watch Shany Mor, Haviv Rettig Gur, and Hussein Aboubakr Discuss “Ecstasy and Amnesia in the Gaza Strip”

1948. 1967. 2000. Each of these years corresponds to an Arab-Israeli war. In each conflict—Israel’s War of Independence, the Six-Day War, and the second intifada—Palestinians and their Arab allies began the wars with ecstatic proclamations of certain victory, and ended them in defeat, shame, and a sense of victimhood. In his feature essay this month, the Israeli analyst Shany Mor asks whether another such war is now occurring, one that will shape the next generation of Palestinian identity.

To further examine Mor’s argument, Mosaic invited him, the Times of Israel analyst Haviv Rettig Gur, and the American Egyptian writer Hussein Aboubakr to join a special conversation with Mosaic editor Jonathan Silver—streamed live exclusively for Mosaic subscribers.

Among other things, they discussed why this cycle of euphoria and denial keeps recurring, what Israelis and Palestinians simply don’t understand about each other, and what the conduct and result of the current war could mean for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict going forward.