For two years, the discourse around the war between Israel and Hamas was basically Austin Powers vs. Golda Meir. The fictional spy would ask, on behalf of much of the world, his famous question: “Why won’t you die?” To which Israel’s iron lady would respond with her own famous quote: “The Jews’ secret weapon is that we have nowhere else to go.” When Hamas began this war, it created the conditions of the war’s end: return the hostages it had taken and step away from the levers of power. Israel’s