The Hamas Paradox and Forgiveness Trap

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Here is the live from today. These weekly live sessions are free for everyone to attend. Upgrading means being a partner in building and protecting these spaces, keeping this work independent and accessible for everyone.

Today we explored the disturbing contradiction unfolding under the Board of Peace framework. If Hamas was an ideological armed resistance group, how could it hand over the keys to a technocratic committee, essentially a modern Judenrat, put in place by the very system it allegedly resisted?

We explored this question and more to understand how the system manufactured all of the conditions it needed to arrive at this moment before us.

We also unpacked how the posture of “never forgive, never forget” creates an endless closed loop. When one side adopts that stance against past oppressors, it generates the exact same stance from others toward them, granting both sides a sense of total moral purity to justify their next outrage. Breaking that cycle requires recognizing how the trap works, extending grace to protect our own humanity, and refusing to become the very thing we condemn.