Are Palestinians Growing Disenchanted with Armed Resistance?

As Shany Mor wrote in Mosaic in November 2023, Palestinian politics has for nearly a century adhered to a cyclical pattern: ecstatic hopes of victory generate episodes of violence, followed by catastrophic defeat, followed by amnesia that sets in before the next round of violence. But could it be that, at least in Gaza, the cycle has been broken? That rather than creating a generation of future terrorists—as the cliché goes—Israel’s war on Hamas has persuaded Palestinians that their pursuit of military triumph is a dead end?