There Is No Victory in Gaza Noura Erakat, Josh Paul, Charles O. Blaha, and Luigi Daniele The current war in Gaza is not an isolated conflict that began on October 7, 2023, when Hamas militants launched an attack inside Israel. Framing the war this way, as John Spencer does in a recent article in Foreign Affairs ( “Israel Is Winning,” August 21, 2024 ), invites many dubious assertions about Israel’s purported progress toward its war aims and its supposed efforts to protect civilians. And it