The Israel-Hamas War: One Year Since October 7

Monday, October 7, marks the one-year anniversary of Hamas’ attack on Israel, drawing media dialogue on the state of the war between the two.

‘Anniversary of Evil’: Philip Klein (Lean Right bias) of National Review (Right bias) highlighted how Israel and Jews abroad have come together in the wake of Hamas’ attack and the changing sentiments they’ve faced in the global community. Klein described October 7 as an “unconscionable act of evil” and argued that the “full history” of it is “still being written.”

Netanyahu’s Gotta Go: Dan Perry of The Forward (Lean Left bias) described Hamas as “terrorists” and wrote that in Israel’s retaliatory attacks, “Both justice and punishment have been generously meted out, at a horrifying cost to civilian lives,” but criticized the Israeli government for “fail(ing) to outline a vision for” a post-Hamas Gaza. Perry argued that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s political interests “diverge so sharply from those of his country” and that “perhaps the most fateful event for Israel… might be finally finding a way to rid itself of its unpopular yet bafflingly durable leader.”

A Year of Genocide: Mouin Rabbani, writing for Middle East Eye (Left bias) criticized the United States and Israel’s other “Western sponsors” for accepting “genocide” as the price they were “prepared to pay” for Israel to “make an example of the Gaza Strip.” Rabanni also highlighted that Netanyahu recently said Iranians would achieve “freedom” from their government and concluded: “Israel's agenda requires it to engineer a direct military confrontation between Washington and Tehran, and in US President Joe Biden, it may well have found the candidate that has thus far eluded it.”