Preventing the Next October 7

Dr. Adi Schwartz: What is that worldview? It is the continued refusal to accept the right of Israel to exist as a Jewish state in any border whatsoever. As long as this remains the ideology of Palestinian society, then no matter who governs the Strip, we will face another October 7th—next year, in two years, or in five years.

If we don’t tackle these issues, if we leave them somehow to the future and hoping just to, you know, put a technocratic government, then we’ll have the same problem. As long as the intention, as long as the motivation of the Palestinian society is to undo the state of Israel as a Jewish state, the next 7th of October is only waiting.

The full interview took place in Al Arabiya, on January 15, 2026.