Why Israel Really Goes to War Over Gaza

David Wearing reviews Norman Finkelstein's new book, “Method and Madness: the Hidden Story of Israel’s Assaults on Gaza,” for Muftah.

Mar 26, 2015

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A destroyed ambulance in Shuja'iyya in the Gaza Strip during the 72-hour ceasefire between Hamas and Israel in August 2014 (photo credit: Wikipedia)

by David Wearing

“Method and Madness: the Hidden Story of Israel’s Assaults on Gaza”, by Norman Finkelstein. OR Books, New York, 2014. ISBN 978-1-939293-71-8.

This past summer, Israel committed its most brutal assault on the Gaza Strip yet, the latest in three attacks it has launched against the territory in recent years. Thousands were killed and maimed, nearly all of them Palestinian. Thousands more were displaced, and entire civilian neighborhoods were smashed to bits.

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