Three years after October 7, 2023—on Israel’s strategic situation in the fall of 2026:

Setting aside the historical developments in the Middle East and the constant question of cause and
effect, it has been evident in recent years that the horror at Hamas’s atrocities
against the Israeli population evolved, over the course of the war, into overtly anti-Israeli rhetoric and
opposition to military operations in the Gaza Strip. This occurred internationally,
but also within democratic Israel itself.