Preface
Acknowledgments
PART ONE
OPERATION CAST LEAD
1 • Self-Defense
2 • Deterring Arabs, Deterring Peace
3 • Spin Control
4 • Human Shields
PART TWO
THE GOLDSTONE REPORT
5 • A Zionist Bears Witness
6 • The Star Witness Recants
PART THREE
THE MAVI MARMARA
7 • Murder on the High Seas
8 • Whitewash I: The Turkel Report
9 • Whitewash II: The UN Panel Report
PART FOUR
OPERATION PROTECTIVE EDGE
10 • Stalled Juggernaut
11 • Israel Has the Right to Defend Itself
12 • Betrayal I: Amnesty International
13 • Betrayal II: UN Human Rights Council
Conclusion
Appendix: Is the Occupation Legal?
Index
Norman G. Finkelstein received his doctorate from the Princeton University Department of Politics. His many books have been translated into some fifty foreign editions. He is a frequent lecturer and commentator on the Israel-Palestine conflict.
"In its comprehensive sweep, deep probing and acute critical
analysis, Finkelstein’s study stands alone.”
*Noam Chomsky*
"Readers with fixed positions, either in agreement or disagreement
with Finkelstein, will find much to engage with here."
*Publishers Weekly*
"No one who ventures an opinion on Gaza . . . is entitled to do so
without taking into account the evidence in this book. For that, at
least, the people of Gaza owe a debt to Norman Finkelstein. . . .
Offers what may well be the definitive history of one of the most
horrifying and sustained campaigns of collective punishment in
modern world history.""
*The Intercept*
"Norman Finkelstein has the moral gravity of an Old Testament
prophet, the scrupulous attention to detail of a Talmudic scholar,
and the mordant sense of humor of a Yiddish novelist. All these
attributes are on display in Gaza: An Inquest Into its
Martyrdom. . . . The cumulative impact of Finkelstein’s
meticulously-documented 408-page chronicle is devastating, and it
will leave the reader stunned that the worldwide reaction is so
muted."
*Mondoweiss*
“Recommended . . . for a review of the evidence of Israel’s
wrongdoing that is buried or downplayed.”
*Current Affairs*
“Gaza is a tour de force. Finkelstein unravels the facade that
Israel and its allies aim to create, exposing the double standards
of the US government, the UN and even human rights
organisations."
*Times Higher Education*
"Finkelstein’s book is a stark reminder of the facets which have
incarcerated Gaza to an extent that its political voice has been
rendered irrelevant by the international community. The unravelling
of misrepresentation and collaboration to ensure Israel’s impunity
at an international level are brought together as referenced,
detailed facts. Finkelstein’s demolition of colonial and
international propaganda vindicates his objective 'to refute that
Big Lie by exposing each of the little lies."
*Middle East Monitor*
"The factual record compiled here will be of interest to future
historians on all sides."
*CHOICE*
“One would be hard pressed to find such crucial analysis in the US
press, or the wider western media for that matter. . . . For both
seasoned and newer readers of the conflict, Gaza is a must read; a
serious commitment to revealing hard truths in their rawest
form.”
*New Arab*
"Anyone who chooses to read Gaza: An Inquest into its
Martyrdom bears witness to the harrowing Truth and preserves
it in the collective memory."
*Palestine Chronicle*
"A meticulous 440-page study of international law, of Israel’s
sustained attacks against Gaza and its people and offers what may
well be the definitive history of one of the most horrifying and
sustained campaigns of collective punishment in modern world
history."
*The Intercept*
"An extraordinary book."
*Bullet*
“Its passionate and painstaking attempt to counter Israeli
deception deserves our close attention.”
*CounterFire*
"His research and his precise inquest into Israel’s wars on Gaza
raises many questions about not only the vicious right-wing nature
of successive Israeligovernments, but also the failure of
international law, the human rights industry and the UN to be
anything other than bystanders . . . Finkelstein’s systematic and
analytical exposé is a necessary read."
*Socialist Lawyer*
"Gaza: An Inquest into Its Martyrdom is a powerful call to
intensify our campaign to bring about justice for the Palestinian
people which has been denied them for so long . . . It is a work of
exacting and thorough scholarship, encyclopedic in its
coverage of the detail of the terrible treatment of the
Palestinians of Gaza, and stands both as a reference guide to the
subject and an appeal for justice."
*Spokesman: Journal of the Bertrand Russell Peace Foundation*
"Finkelstein’s work remains the very best of accounts of a tragedy
and a crime in progress in Palestine."
*Morning Star Online*
"Finkelstein is not only a leading voice on Gaza, but in a world
where expertise is casually disavowed and penetrating research cast
aside, perhaps the voice on Gaza."
*Substack*
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