Opinion | What I'm Thinking About on the First Anniversary of the War
Briefly

"All wars come down to two basic questions: Who wins the battle on the ground? And who wins the battle of the story?"
"No one has decisively won the battle on the ground or the battle for the story. Indeed, one year after Oct. 7, this is still the first Arab-Israeli war without a name and without a clear victor."
"To my mind, there is nothing that can justify what Hamas attackers did on Oct. 7 murdering, maiming, kidnapping and sexually abusing any Israeli they could get their hands on."
"This was always going to be the ugliest of Israeli-Palestinian wars since 1947, because Hamas had embedded itself in tunnels underneath Gazan homes, schools, mosques and hospitals."
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