“True, things have never looked this bad [...]. But this savage war also exposes the conflict’s darkest secret: its vicious cycle of humiliation, resentment and revenge is driven by power-famished fanatics treating people, including their own, as dispensable 'things’.”

Uriel Abulof is a senior lecturer at Tel-Aviv University's Department of Political Science and teaches at Cornell University. He is an expert on the politics of fear, happiness and hope, legitimation, social movements, nationalism and ethnic conflicts.

Abulof's 2015 book The Mortality and Morality of Nations received considerable praise. His recent journalism work has explored the nature and future of the Israel-Palestine conflict.

“What Uriel Abulof has succeeded in doing is to take issues of political morality out of the ethereal philosophical plane"  — Matthew Evangelista, Cornell University.