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.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- 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: The 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
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Further Reading
- Index
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