Palestinian advocates like to quip that the current war “didn’t begin on October 7.” That’s true, of course, though unhelpful. It didn’t begin in any one specific place. There are no singular first causes in history. When we choose the beginning of the story, we choose its framing and meaning.
For most Israeli Jews, the story of the current war might be said to have begun in the fall of 2000, in the great collapse of Oslo that still casts its long shadow on the Israeli political psyche.
This is that story.
tl;dw What was the second intifada about?
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