We woke up on 7 October two years ago to the horrors of Hamas’s attack on Israel. In the days the followed, fear crept in that Israel’s response would be swift, deliberately disproportionate, and laced with tragic consequences – motivated foremost by revenge and not with eliminating Hamas or getting the hostages back. Still, it defies common sense and morality – and is testament to a collective international failure – that it has taken until now, after more than 67,000 Palestinians have been killed and many more maimed and left hungry, that serious negotiations are taking place to end the...