Welcome to Current Affairs. My name is Nathan Robinson. I'm the editor-in-chief of Curret Affairs

Magazine. We are privileged to have returning to the program today, Mouin Robani. He is a researcher

and analyst on the Middle East. His new forthcoming book is Gaza Apocalypse, A Genocide Diary, available already for pre-order from our books.

And I was honored to get to, in fact, blurb this book.

And I, it's a quote from me on the back, that says that Moin Rabani is always wise, thoughtful,

and morally clear, which is something that I deeply believe, and I'm very excited for this

book.

I recommend everyone check out his work.

Mouin is really one of our best analysts of Middle East politics, and so we are delighted to

have him back on the program.

Mouin, welcome. Thank you very much, Nathan. Thank you for your kind words of introduction and

particularly for your generous endorsement of my forthcoming book. And it's a real pleasure

to be with you again. Well, I have mentioned before to you that you are the person I turn to when

I need sanity and calm.

You've come to the wrong place.

Well, I just want to begin with perhaps the inverse of sanity and calm by just reading to you

from the truth social feed of the President of the United States.

Latest from this, this would be from today, is I just had excellent conversations

with President Lebanon and Prime Minister of Israel.

They've agreed that in order to achieve peace,

in all caps, between their countries, capital C, they will formally begin a 10-day ceasefire,

all caps.

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