As Western governments line up to recognize Palestine, however, the Israeli military is continuing its systematic obliteration of Gaza City, block by block, neighborhood by neighborhood, while forcibly displacing its approximately 1 million residents to the south.

Two years since Hamas’s Oct. 7, 2023, attack on Israel and the start of Israel’s seemingly endless retribution campaign against Gaza, several Western nations—including the United Kingdom, France, Canada, and Australia—have announced that they now recognize a Palestinian state. The recognitions represent mounting global outrage over Israel’s war in Gaza, which has led to a human-made famine , the annihilation of most the enclave’s infrastructure, and what a growing chorus of experts describe as genocide .

Two years since Hamas’s Oct. 7, 2023, attack on Israel and the start of Israel’s seemingly endless retribution campaign against Gaza, several Western nations—including the United Kingdom, France, Canada, and Australia—have announced that they now recognize a Palestinian state. The recognitions represent mounting global outrage over Israel’s war in Gaza, which has led to a human-made famine, the annihilation of most the enclave’s infrastructure, and what a growing chorus of experts describe as genocide. The book cover for Tomorrow is Yesterday.

As Western governments line up to recognize Palestine, however, the Israeli military is continuing its systematic obliteration of Gaza City, block by block, neighborhood by neighborhood, while forcibly displacing its approximately 1 million residents to the south.

The stark contrast between the world’s declarations about a theoretical Palestinian state and Israel’s physical erasure of Palestine’s largest city is both jarring and deeply familiar. This chasm between imagined futures and tangible realities has long been a feature of international diplomacy in Israel/Palestine. It is one of the primary reasons that the two-state solution has failed. U.S. President Donald Trump’s plan for “eternal peace” in the region will likely fail, as well.

Few works do a better job of capturing the chronic dissonance that plagued and ultimately doomed Israeli-Palestinian peacemaking than Tomorrow is Yesterday: Life, Death, and the Pursuit of Peace in Israel/Palestine by Robert Malley and Hussein Agha. Timely and elegantly written, the book is a dyslogy for a peace process built on faulty assumptions and sustained through lies and self-delusion.

Tomorrow is Yest