Method and Madness: The Hidden Story of Israel's Assaults on Gaza (20 page)
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30.
“Israel Visitor Numbers Nosedive during Gaza Offensive,”
Agence France-Presse
(11 August 2014).
31.
“In CNN Interview, Combative Bloomberg Says US Flight Ban a Mistake,”
cnn.com
(22 July 2014;
http://tinyurl.com/pl8etlk
).
32.
Emanual Yelin, “Were Gaza Tunnels Built to Harm Israeli Civilians?,”
+972
(11 August 2014;
http://tinyurl.com/ovxr9v
).
33.
Pierre Krähenbühl, “In the Eye of a Man-Made Storm,”
Foreign Policy
(26 September 2014); Human Rights Watch,
In-Depth Look at Gaza School Attacks
(New York: 11 September 2014).
34.
“Gaza: Ban condemns latest deadly attack near UN school as ‘moral outrage and criminal act,’”
UN News Centre
(3 August 2014).
35.
Donna Chiacu, “US Slams ‘Disgraceful Shelling’ of UN School in Gaza,”
Haaretz
(3 August 2014).
36.
Amos Harel, “Operation Protective Edge Advances with No Exit Strategy,”
Haaretz
(20 July 2014), Amos Harel, “As Bulldozers Destroy Hamas’ Underground Network, IDF Sees Light at End of Tunnel,”
Haaretz
(1 August 2014), Amos Harel, “IDF Wary of New Gaza Ground Op Even as Diplomacy Lags,”
Haaretz
(25 August 2014).
37.
Gili Cohen, “Senior Officer: Hamas still able to carry out tunnel attacks against Israel,”
Haaretz
(31 July 2014).
38.
International law is either neutral on or supports (scholars differ) the right of a people struggling for self-determination to use force. James Crawford,
The Creation of States in International Law
, second edition (Oxford: 2006), pp. 135–37, 147; Heather A. Wilson,
International Law and the Use of Force by National Liberation Movements
(Oxford: 1988), pp. 135–36; A. Rigo Sureda,
The Evolution of the Right to Self-Determination: A study of United Nations practice
(Leiden: 1973), pp. 331, 343–44, 354.
http://www.icj-cij.org/docket/files/131/1671.pdf
.
40.
Yoram Dinstein,
The Conduct of Hostilities under the Law of International Armed Conflict
(Cambridge: 2004), pp. 35, 94.
41.
See Norman G. Finkelstein and Mouin Rabbani,
How to Solve the Israel-Palestine Conflict
(forthcoming 2015).
42.
Human Rights Watch, “Indiscriminate Palestinian Rocket Attacks” (9 July 2014).
43.
Jean-Marie Henckaerts and Louise Doswald-Beck,
Customary International Humanitarian Law, Volume 1: Rules
(Cambridge: 2005), p. 523; A. P. V. Rogers,
Law on the Battlefield
, second edition (Manchester: 2004), p. 235.
44.
Legality of the Threat or Use of Nuclear Weapons
(8 July 1996)—Letter dated 16 June 1995 from the Legal Adviser to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, together with Written Comments of the United Kingdom; Letter dated 20 June 1995 from the Acting Legal Adviser to the Department of State, together with Written Statement of the Government of the United States of America; Oral Statement of US representative (15 November 1995); Dissenting Opinion of Vice-President Schwebel. The ICJ itself elected not to rule on the legality of belligerent reprisals, para. 46.
45.
Amira Hass, “Hamas’s Rejection of the Cease-fire Deal Was a Foregone Conclusion,”
Haaretz
(16 July 2014).
1.
Alessandria Masi, “Israeli Airstrikes on Gaza Collapse Apartment Building,”
International Business Times
(23 August 2014).
2.
These figures are rounded off.
3.
Nidal al-Mughrabi and Luke Baker, “What’s in the Gaza Peace Deal?,”
Reuters
(26 August 2014).
4.
Barak Ravid, “Netanyahu: Gaza op was great military, political achievement,”
Haaretz
(28 August 2014).
5.
Zvi Bar’el, “With Truce, Israel Talks to Hamas and Islamic Jihad,”
Haaretz
(27 August 2014).
6.
Barak Ravid, “Netanyahu Saw His Chance to Run Away from Gaza, and He Took It,”
Haaretz
(26 August 2014).
7.
Mouin Rabbani, “Israel’s ‘Operation Status Quo,’”
Norwegian Peace-building Resource Center
(25 August 2014).
8.
Jassem Al Salami, “Rockets and Iron Dome, the Case of Lebanon,”
Offiziere.ch
(5 August 2014;
offiziere.ch/?p=17519
); “Israel Preparing for ‘Very Violent’ War against Hezbollah, TV Report Says,”
Times of Israel
(6 September 2014).
9.
Yossi Verter, “Netanyahu after the War: Less popular, but still unchallenged,”
Haaretz
(29 August 2014).
10.
Khaled Abu Toameh, “Ismail Haniyeh Makes First Appearance since Start of Gaza Operation,”
Jerusalem Post
(27 August 2014).
11.
Jack Khoury, “Meshal: Hamas will go back to war against Israel if upcoming truce talks fail,”
Haaretz
(28 August 2014); Amira Hass, “Hamas Trying to Sell ‘Victory’ to Gazans,”
Haaretz
(27 August 2014).
12.
“Gaza Blockade—No Signs of Loosening,”
IRIN
(2 September 2014).
13.
“Netanyahu: Regional changes promise new ‘diplomatic horizon,’”
Haaretz
(20 August 2014).
14.
Norman G. Finkelstein and Mouin Rabbani,
How to Solve the Israel-Palestine Conflict
(forthcoming 2015).
15.
“Hamas Popularity ‘Surges after Gaza War,’”
aljazeera.com
(2 September 2014;
http://tinyurl.com/k48jpyt
).
16.
David Rothkopf, “The US-Israeli Relationship Arrives at a Moment of Reckoning,”
Foreign Policy
(26 August 2014).
17.
“UN Rights Council Appoints Members of Commission to Investigate Purported Gaza Violations,”
UN News Centre
(11 August 2014).
18.
Tovah Lazaroff, “UNHRC Investigator Schabas Stays Mum on Hamas as ‘Terror Group,’”
Jerusalem Post
(12 August 2014).
19.
Norman G. Finkelstein,
“This Time We Went Too Far”: Truth and consequences of the Gaza invasion
, revised and expanded edition (New York: 2011), pp. 142–43, 194–95.
20.
Julian Borger, “Hague Court under Western Pressure Not to Open Gaza War Crimes Inquiry,”
Guardian
(17 August 2014).
21.
Fatou Bensouda, “The Truth about the ICC and Gaza,”
Guardian
(29 August 2014); Yonah Jeremy Bob, “ICC: Palestine is a state, can file war crimes complaints against Israel, if chooses,”
Jerusalem Post
(31 August 2014).
22.
Anshel Pfeffer, “Israel Has Little to Fear from the International Criminal Court,”
Haaretz
(20 May 2014).
23.
Norman G. Finkelstein,
Beyond Chutzpah: On the misuse of anti-Semitism and the abuse of history
, expanded paperback edition (Berkeley: 2008), pp. 156–58 (torture), 214–16 (hostage taking).
24.
Khaled Abu Toameh, “PA to Tell UN: Force Israel out of W. Bank, or we’ll seek war crimes charges in The Hague,”
Jerusalem Post
(28 August 2014).
25.
Taylor Branch,
Parting the Waters: America in the King years, 1954–1963
(New York: 1988), pp. 756–802.
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