October 7, One Year Later

Read essays by Aluf Benn, Dahlia Scheindlin, Khaled Elgindy, and others on the legacy of Hamas’s attack. [Foreign Affairs]( October 7, 2024 | [View in Browser]( One year ago today, Hamas launched a brutal assault on Israel, killing over 1,100 people and abducting roughly 250, nearly 100 of whom are still believed to be held hostage in the Gaza Strip. The attack sparked a war in Gaza that has killed tens of thousands of Palestinians to date—and that appears closer than ever to spiraling into a full-scale regional war. To mark the anniversary, the editors at Foreign Affairs have selected the very best of our recent coverage, with leading thinkers and policymakers including [Aluf Benn](, [Dahlia Scheindlin](, [Khaled Elgindy](, [Oona Hathaway](, and [Martin Indyk]( reflecting on the legacy of the October 7 attack—and where Israel and the region go from here. Start reading below.   [Image]( [Israel’s Paradox of Defeat]( [How the Country’s Military Success Is Producing Political Failure]( [By Aluf Benn](   [What Israel Has Lost]( [And How It Can Regain Its Strategic Edge]( [By Ari Shavit]( [Image](   [Image]( [Where Will Israel’s Multifront War End?]( [There May Not Be a Better Day After]( [By Dalia Dassa Kaye](   [The Fight for a New Israel]( [To End the War and Build a Lasting Peace, the Country Must Reinvent Its Own Democracy]( [By Dahlia Scheindlin]( [Image](   [Image]( [A Plan for Peace in Gaza]( [The Reforms That Could Allow the PLO to Lead and the Palestinian Authority to Govern]( [By Salam Fayyad]( [Subscribe now for unlimited access.]( [Subscribe now for unlimited access.]( [A Palestinian Revival]( [How to Build a New Political Order After Israel’s Assault on Gaza]( [By Khaled Elgindy]( [Image](   [Image]( [The Shallow Roots of Iran’s War With Israel]( [Beneath Tehran’s Extremism, a Lost History of Deep Iranian-Jewish Ties]( [By Ali M. Ansari](   [War Unbound]( [Gaza, Ukraine, and the Breakdown of International Law]( [By Oona A. Hathaway]( [Image](   [Image]( [Why Israel Slept]( [The War in Gaza and the Search for Security]( [By Amos Yadlin and Udi Evental](   [The Two-State Mirage]( [How to Break the Cycle of Violence in a One-State Reality]( [By Marc Lynch and Shibley Telhami]( [Image](   [Image]( [The Strange Resurrection of the Two-State Solution]( [How an Unimaginable War Could Bring About the Only Imaginable Peace]( [By Martin Indyk]( [Twitter]( [Instagram]( [LinkedIn]( [YouTube]( © 2024 Council on Foreign Relations | 58 East 68th Street, New York NY | 10065 To ensure we can contact you, please add us to your email address book or safe list. This email was sent to {EMAIL}. Receiving too many emails? Unsubscribe and manage your email preferences [here.](