A Palestinian woman holding a child by the hand walks down a street lined with destroyed buildings in the Jabalia refugee camp, in the northern Gaza Strip, on Oct. 5, 2026. (Credit: Bashar Taleb/AFP)
Forty years ago, Mahmoud Darwish wrote: "On this land stands the mistress of the land, mother of preludes and epilogues. It was called Palestine. It is still called Palestine." That was a time when the Palestinian cause captivated the Arab imagination. By launching the attack on Oct. 7, 2023, the leader of Hamas, Yahya Sinwar, aimed to forcefully put Palestine back at the center of a regional order that seemed intent on forgetting it.Three years later, Palestine has returned to the center of international debate, but this resurgence has come with a paradox: while it receives growing recognition in the West, it has lost some of its centrality within the Arab world and divisions amongst Palestinians have deepened.The war in Gaza has fundamentally changed the way part of Western public opinion sees the issue, especially among...
Forty years ago, Mahmoud Darwish wrote: "On this land stands the mistress of the land, mother of preludes and epilogues. It was called Palestine. It is still called Palestine." That was a time when the Palestinian cause captivated the Arab imagination. By launching the attack on Oct. 7, 2023, the leader of Hamas, Yahya Sinwar, aimed to forcefully put Palestine back at the center of a regional order that seemed intent on forgetting it.Three years later, Palestine has returned to the center of international debate, but this resurgence has come with a paradox: while it receives growing recognition in the West, it has lost some of its centrality within the Arab world and divisions amongst Palestinians have deepened.The war in Gaza has fundamentally changed the way part of Western public opinion sees the issue, especially among...
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