amy: michael sfard is an israeli human rights lawyer.will link to your new article for haaretz titled "israelis must maintain their humanity even when their blood boils." speaking to us from tel aviv. coming up, we speak to a palestinian journalist. stay with us. ♪♪ [music break] amy: "once upon a city" by faraj suleiman. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman with nermeen shaikh. nermeen: palestinians and israelis have grown accustomed to wars in the south in recent years, but the that began in the early hours of saturday october 7 is nothing like the others. those of the opening lines of a new piece in the london review of books by our next guest, the palestinian journalist amjad iraqi who joins us from london. the article is headlined "get out of there now." amjad iraqi is a senior editor at +972 magazine and a policy member of al-shabaka. his latest piece for +972 is headlined "a psychological barrier has just been shattered in israel-palestine." welcome to democracy now! thank you so much