Twelve Days That Shook the Middle East

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Dr. Marwan Bishara has been the senior political analyst at Al Jazeera English for the past two decades. He has authored three book and written for publications such as The New York Times, Washington Post, The Guardian, Le Monde, Newsweek, Jerusalem Post, and Al-Hayat. He was a visiting academic at St Antony's College, Oxford, and was a lecturer of international relations at the American University of Paris. He splits his time between New York, London, Paris, and Doha.

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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, from Tel Aviv to Tehran.**

** In Twelve Days That Shook the Middle East, scholar and Al Jazeera senior political analyst Marwan Bishara offers a clear-eyed account of what happened after October 7, 2023, why it happened, and why it matters. Bishara argues that this conflict has always been an asymmetric, anticolonial struggle. The genocide was not a misstep; it was a blueprint unfolding before the world's eyes.

Although he covers the entire war, Bishara contends that the first twelve days were enough to expose the core logic of the conflict, to understand the strategic design behind it, and to bear witness to how modern warfare, wrapped in the language of "security," "self-defense," and "civilization," becomes a weapon of dehumanization and destruction.

What followed those twelve days-mass killing, mass displacement, famine, and the collapse of humanitarian possibility-was not the fog of war. It was the eerily cold execution of a premeditated strategy.

Inhalt

Part One The Beautiful Lie and the Ugly Truth
Chapter 1 Singapore on the Mediterranean
Chapter 2 The Masterminds
Chapter 3 The Twelve Hours That Shook Israel

Part Two Hell Unleashed
Chapter 4 Manufacturing the Case for Genocide
Chapter 5 Israel's Tragedy, Netanyahu's Opportunity
Chapter 6 Leave it to the Generals
Chapter 7 The Quiet War

Part Three A Special Liaison
Chapter 8 Biden's Bear Hug
Chapter 9 The Imperial Speech

Part Four Nakba 2.0
Chapter 10 The Nakba Continues
Chapter 11 The Children
Chapter 12 The Hospitals
Chapter 13 Dying to Learn
Chapter 14 Famine by Design

Part Five A Crisis of Humanity
Chapter 15 The Arab Abandonment of Palestine
Chapter 16 Europe's Crisis of Conscience
Chapter 17 Paralysis at the Pinnacle

Part Six People Power
Chapter 18 Surging Global Solidarity
Chapter 19 Antisemitism and Islamophobia

Part Seven Three Twelve-Day Wars
Chapter 20 Dragging Iran to War
Chapter 21 Israel devastates Hezbollah
Chapter 22 Syria: The Collapse
Chapter 23 The Twelve-Day Israel-Iran War
Reflections: The Delusion of Power and The Power of Delusion