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Hello, you're listening to the LRB podcast, and I'm your host, Adam Schatz.

On this episode, we'll be discussing the crisis in Israel-Palestine with Tarek Bikoni,

a political analyst for the international crisis group and a contributor to the LRB, who spoke to us from Amman,

and Henriette Shakhar, a journalist with the website 972 and producer of their podcast based in Haifa.

As we were recording our conversation, news of an agreed ceasefire between Israel and Hamas came through, ending 11 days of intense fighting.

More than 230 Palestinians were killed and a dozen Israelis.

More than 70,000 Gazans were displaced from their homes and there has been wide-scale destruction of infrastructure.

In this episode, we talk about the war and the ceasefire, but we also explore the larger context to the recent

violence. The struggle in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jara, where Palestinian families face

expulsion from their homes, the siege of Al-Aksa Mosque by Israeli forces, and the explosion of violence

in mixed cities inside Israel itself.

We also talk about the international repercussions of the war, particularly the response

of the Biden administration and the emergence of new trends in Washington.

Tarek, Henriette, thank you for joining me on the LRB podcast.

Thanks for having me.

Thanks for having me.

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