A meticulously reported record of the key moments, behind-the-scenes decisions, and political rationalizations of a Biden administration that could not find a way to say no to the unthinkable. This is essential reading.—Ben Rhodes, deputy U.S. national security advisor under President Barack Obama and New York Times best-selling author of After the Fall
This clearheaded and well-documented account constitutes a devastating condemnation of the fecklessness and incompetence of the Biden administration’s response to the Hamas massacre of October 7, and its wholesale complicity in the genocidal assault by Israel on Gaza.…A must-read for anyone who still cares about the use of American power for good rather than evil and a clarion call to liberate U.S. policymakers from the hold of Israeli extremists and their American lobbyists.—Omer Bartov, Dean’s Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Brown University, and author of Israel: What Went Wrong?
With exceptional sourcing and clarity, journalist Akbar Shahid Ahmed reveals Israel’s U.S.-enabled genocide in Gaza as the greatest moral failing of the Biden administration.…that stained what could have been a transformative presidency.—Joy Reid, National Book Award winner and New York Times best-selling author of Medgar and Myrlie
The captivating and often disturbing inside story of how the Biden administration, despite having the knowledge and wherewithal to restrain Israeli conduct throughout the war, consistently chose to ignore its own ‘red lines,’ with devastating consequences for Palestinians and the entire region.…One of the most important political books of our time as well as an indispensable resource.—Khaled Elgindy, senior fellow, Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, and author of Blind Spot
The Democratic Party is often said to be the lesser of two evils. Akbar Shahid Ahmed, the best journalist covering the Biden-Harris administration’s foreign policy, devastatingly chronicles just how evil its support for the Israeli genocide of Gaza was.—Spencer Ackerman, Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist and author of Reign of Terror
