You’re looking at a section of Tel Aviv as it burns from an Iranian missile. The photo comes courtesy of AP’s Tomer Neuberg.
Let’s dispense with the barebones facts first. Israel, a state with a keen sense of its military prowess and impunity, attacked Iran, a state with a keen sense of its isolation and vulnerability.
The World After Gaza!
Cunning title! It implies a sea change in the way of the universe before the Hamas attacks of October 7 and after Israel’s genocidal campaign in that tiny space where apocalypse dwells. But much of what the reader actually encounters on the page, with such wonder and somberness, are the historical continuities between now and then.
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