I can only hope, writing in 2024, that by the time this book is published, Israel will have withdrawn from Gaza and will have ceased the large-scale ethnic cleansing and genocidal policies they are currently pursuing.

Ilan Pappé

Israel on the Brink

No, that's not happening, Israel is getting more and more genocidal, and it seems odd that Pappé would have had that hope given the Israel's policy has never changed. His book already seems like the past. The past almost happens too fast for such books to have currency, and such hopes, well, they seem hopeful. What is hope, anyway, in a genocidal world? You can't live without it I suppose, but it won't save us.