Uploaded January 2024 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago

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A common belief about the Hamas attack of October 7 is that it was timed to disrupt the looming Saudi Arabia/Israel normalization deal, which, like the Abraham Accords before it, would have excluded Palestinians from negotiations. Middle East expert Mouin Rabbani has issues with this interpretation and offers his own counter-narrative.

Clipped from ArtiFact 54: Israel Against The Civilized World – youtu.be/FiKIenWoC-I

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Mouin Rabbani’s Twitter page: twitter.com/MouinRabbani

Mouin Rabbani in “Deluge: Gaza and Israel from Crisis to Cataclysm” (OR Books): orbooks.com/catalog/deluge

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