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Method and Madness: The Hidden Story of Israel's Assaults on Gaza Paperback – 1 Jan. 2015

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In the past five years Israel has mounted three major assaults on the 1.8 million Palestinians trapped behind its blockade of the Gaza Strip. Taken together, Operation Cast Lead (2008-9), Operation Pillar of Defense (2012), and Operation Protective Edge (2014), have resulted in the deaths of some 3,700 Palestinians. Meanwhile, a total of 90 Israelis were killed in the invasions. On the face of it, this succession of vastly disproportionate attacks has often seemed frenzied and pathological. Senior Israeli politicians have not discouraged such perceptions, indeed they have actively encouraged them. After the 2008-9 assault Israel’s then-foreign minister, Tzipi Livni, boasted, “Israel demonstrated real hooliganism during the course of the recent operation, which I demanded.” However, as Norman G. Finkelstein sets out in this concise, paradigm-shifting new book, a closer examination of Israel’s motives reveals a state whose repeated recourse to savage war is far from irrational. Rather, Israel’s attacks have been designed to sabotage the possibility of a compromise peace with the Palestinians, even on terms that are favorable to it. Looking also at machinations around the 2009 UN sponsored Goldstone report and Turkey’s forlorn attempt to seek redress in the UN for the killing of its citizens in the 2010 attack on the Gaza freedom flotilla, Finkelstein documents how Israel has repeatedly eluded accountability for what are now widely recognized as war crimes. Further, he shows that, though neither side can claim clear victory in these conflicts, the ensuing stalemate remains much more tolerable for Israelis than for the beleaguered citizens of Gaza. A strategy of mass non-violent protest might, he contends, hold more promise for a Palestinian victory than military resistance, however brave.

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236 pages
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English
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OR Books
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1 Jan. 2015
ISBN-10

1939293715
ISBN-13

978-1939293718
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Publisher ‏ : ‎ OR Books (1 Jan. 2015)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 236 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1939293715
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1939293718

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A must read book written by a very knowledgeable man ...

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A must read book written by a very knowledgeable man, and needs to be read by as many as possible

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Trevor Fred Jones

Finkelstein tells it as it is

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 21 May 2015

This book is a collection of essays about Gaza written by Norman Finkelstein in recent years. The book documents the manner in which the Israelis have engaged in on-going collective punishment of the people of Gaza and intentionally provoked confrontation with Hamas time and time again, often as a direct response to peace initiatives by Hamas leaders. The book cuts through the myths of the main-stream media of a belligerent Hamas and an Israel that sincerely wants peace as a hot knife cuts through butter. The book ends with a call by Finkelstein to Hamas leaders to focus their efforts on non-violent civil disobedience using Gaza's greatest asset - it's children and young people.

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shalom cohen

Not worth bothering with

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 19 February 2015

More vitriolic babble from an infamous Israel hater.

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