“October 7 was bloody, and it was horrific. … But Netanyahu and his government had to go overboard, to exaggerate, to lie, to deceive about what exactly happened” in order to justify their actions in Gaza, says Al Jazeera senior political analyst Marwan Bishara. “Genocides don’t start with bombs; they start with ideology. And in this case, the ideology has been decades in the making.”
Bishara’s new book is “Twelve Days That Shook the Middle East: Origins of a Genocide.”