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A damning account of how Israel and the US manufactured the case for genocide in Gaza and a devastating regional war in the Middle East. Dr. Marwan Bishara, Aljazeera's senior political analyst, discusses his new book Twelve Days that Shook the Middle East, covering the three year Gaza war. He'll talk about the challenge of writing a book about a war while it was still raging, and of drawing dramatic and controversial conclusions from its first dozen days, when the fighting had only just begun. What shocked him most? Why did he hope his thesis would prove wrong? Why does he now believe the book's title needs to be updated? What sets his book apart from the many others covering the Gaza war? We'll also discuss his experience as a journalist covering a war in which many of his colleagues and fellow Palestinian journalists were killed. Join us for a wide-ranging conversation about the war, genocide, journalism, prediction, and the risks of writing history while it is still unfolding.

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