The day after I flew out of Ben Gurion Airport in Tel Aviv, Hamas fired more than 2,000 missiles into Israel from the Gaza strip. Israel responded unmercifully.

Hundreds are dead, thousands wounded. These numbers are expected to rise as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vows that Gaza will “pay a price it has never known.”

I am against war—all manifestations of war. I am against violence—all forms of institutionalized violence.

We misread the current situation if we believe this display of violence only started on Saturday. It has been simmering for the past 75 years.

Saturday’s launching of rockets is not the start of violence, but its continuation. This leads us to ask: What is the root of this continuing violence?

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