Wolfgang Danspeckgruber, the founding director of SPIA’s Liechtenstein Institute on Self-Determination, has been teaching on issues of state, self-determination, diplomacy, and crisis diplomacy at Princeton since 1988. The violent death and destruction wrought through the Hamas terrorist attacks on Israel – including kidnappings of Israelis on their territory and deliberate civilian killings such as those at the Tribe of Nova Music Festival – represent a potential inflection point in the Middle East and beyond.