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Date: April 10, 2024 at 07:05:34
From: chatillon, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Method and Madness: The Hidden Story of Israels Assaults on Gaza |
URL: for starters - Finklestein - January 13, 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 Israels 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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Date: April 10, 2024 at 11:38:03
From: chatillon, [DNS_Address]
Subject: also available here |
URL: https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/method-and-madness/19392049/all-editions/?resultid=71529d95-f649-4895-b660-e65c694b1218 |
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and here
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/method-and-madness-
norman-finkelstein/1121073167?ean=9781939293718
along with many other booksellers.
take your pick.
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Date: April 10, 2024 at 10:44:25
From: Redhart, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: Method and Madness: The Hidden Story of Israels Assaults on Gaza |
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Are we hawking Amazon books on this board now?
This guy is a very controversial figure and his works
should be approached very carefully.
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Date: April 10, 2024 at 11:16:08
From: akira, [DNS_Address]
Subject: please point out the inaccuracies, falsehoods(NT) |
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Date: April 10, 2024 at 07:22:13
From: chatillon, [DNS_Address]
Subject: A hundred years in the making |
URL: Hundred Years' War on Palestine Paperback – January 26, 2021 |
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A landmark history of one hundred years of war waged
against the Palestinians from the foremost US historian
of the Middle East, told through pivotal events and
family history
In 1899, Yusuf Diya al-Khalidi, mayor of Jerusalem,
alarmed by the Zionist call to create a Jewish national
home in Palestine, wrote a letter aimed at Theodore
Herzl: the country had an indigenous people who would
not easily accept their own displacement. He warned of
the perils ahead, ending his note, gin the name of God,
let Palestine be left alone.h Thus Rashid Khalidi, al-
Khalidifs great-great-nephew, begins this sweeping
history, the first general account of the conflict told
from an explicitly Palestinian perspective.
Drawing on a wealth of untapped archival materials and
the reports of generations of family members\mayors,
judges, scholars, diplomats, and journalists\The Hundred
Years' War on Palestine upends accepted interpretations
of the conflict, which tend, at best, to describe a
tragic clash between two peoples with claims to the same
territory. Instead, Khalidi traces a hundred years of
colonial war on the Palestinians, waged first by the
Zionist movement and then Israel, but backed by Britain
and the United States, the great powers of the age. He
highlights the key episodes in this colonial campaign,
from the 1917 Balfour Declaration to the destruction of
Palestine in 1948, from Israelfs 1982 invasion of
Lebanon to the endless and futile peace process.
Original, authoritative, and important, The Hundred
Years' War on Palestine is not a chronicle of
victimization, nor does it whitewash the mistakes of
Palestinian leaders or deny the emergence of national
movements on both sides. In reevaluating the forces
arrayed against the Palestinians, it offers an
illuminating new view of a conflict that continues to
this day.
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Date: April 10, 2024 at 11:44:15
From: chatillon, [DNS_Address]
Subject: also found here |
URL: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-hundred-years-war-on-palestine-rashid-khalidi/1129978632?ean=9781250787651 |
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