October 7th. It's not the day that the clock started on what we often euphemistically call the Israel-Palestine conflict,

but it is the moment of course that the current horror began.

That was the day when Hamas and other armed groups broke through the fence separating

Gaza and Israel, committing atrocities which the Israeli state used to justify what many of

us consider to be genocide against the Palestinian people of Gaza, tens of thousands

of Palestinians killed, including over 14,000 children, mass displacement of virtually the entire

population, the mass destruction of civilian mass displacement

of virtually the entire population, the mass destruction of civilian infrastructure, the violent dismantling of the health system

growing famine we could go on.

But what's true about that day itself and what's false.

Now we're approaching six months since that fateful morning and a really brilliant

and important new documentary about Al Jazeera investigations seeks to finally establish

the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.

Now I've watched it and it is chilling. It's a brilliant piece of journalism but it is chilling and it's chilling in part because of the atrocities which were

committed against unarmed and innocent Israeli

civilians on the 7th of October and it's chilling because of the false claims

which were used in order to justify the mass slaughter of the Palestinian people in Gaza which is ongoing.

Now I'm going to interview the top journalist Richard Sanders who's done so much work of course

on this crucial piece of investigative journalism.

A little note first, back in late November I recorded a video which was posted on my

YouTube channel and on other platforms.

Following a screening I watched hosted by these Israeli

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