Book Review: 'GAZA: an inquest into its martyrdom' by Norman Finkelstein, an authoritative history and a real flick in the eye.
When we left after the operation, it was just a barren stretch of desert…. We spoke about it a lot amongst ourselves, the guys from the company, how crazy the amount of damage we did there was. I quote: "Listen man, it's crazy what went on in there," "Listen man, we really messed them up," "Fuck, check it out, there's nothing at all left…, it's nothing but desert now, that's crazy. [Y]ou're shooting at anything that moves - and also at what isn't moving, crazy amounts… [I]t also becomes a bit like a computer game, totally cool and real. [I]t's destruction on a whole other level. - Excerpts from Israeli Soldier testimonies featured on page 219, GAZA: an inquest into its martyrdom, taken from 'Breaking the Silence'. This year, Dr. Norman G. Finkelstein published another book on the Israel-Palestine conflict, Gaza: an inquest into its martyrdom. It covers the recent history of violence inflicted upon the Palest