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Finkelstein: Operation Cast Lead Is Not a War, It’s a Massacre

Finkelstein: Operation Cast Lead Is Not a War, It’s a Massacre
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Local Editor, 09-04-2010

Norman Finkelstein appeared before the United Nations Correspondents Association in New York on April 7th, where he talked about his book "This Time We Went Too Far," which provides an image of the "suffering" that the Gazan population "endured" as a result of the "merciless "Israeli" assault."

Finkelstein said he urged the UN correspondents to publicize his message about what he called the "bloodletting in Gaza."

In his remarks to the UN correspondents, Finkelstein said that it was inaccurate to characterize what happened in Gaza as a war. He described it as a "massacre" deliberately designed by the "Israeli" government and military to terrorize the people of Gaza with "disproportionate force." The real reason for "Israel's" invasion, Finkelstein asserted, was to teach Arabs a lesson after Israel's "defeat" in Lebanon in 2006.

To support his thesis that "Israel" used unreasonably disproportionate force against a defenseless civilian population and engaged in a "massacre" rather than a war, Finkelstein cited testimony from "Israeli" soldiers who were quoted as saying that they did not engage any combatants on the Hamas side.

He also referred, as an example of "Israel's" true intentions, to former "Israeli" Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni, who said at the time that "Israel demonstrated real hooliganism during the course of the recent operation, which I demanded."

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