Questions & answers

The conflict’s famous questions: the settled ones with their documented answers, and the ones that honestly stay open.

• Where are Jews from?
• When was Israel established?
• Was Palestine ever a country?
• Is Israel an apartheid state?
• Is Israel committing genocide in Gaza?
• Who started the wars?
• Why are there still Palestinian refugee camps after 75 years?
• What does “from the river to the sea” mean?
• Did Jews steal the land?
• Was Gaza occupied when this war began?
• Was Jerusalem ever the capital of any other state?
• Is anti-Zionism antisemitism?
• How many people have died in Gaza, and how many were combatants?
• How much of the 1948 Palestinian exodus was flight, and how much expulsion?
• Are the settlements legal, and are they wise?
• Was the pre-October 7 policy toward Hamas defensible at the time?
• What should come next: two states, and who runs Gaza?