‘This Time We Went Too Far’
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31-3-2010
“The least that we owe the people of Gaza is an accurate record of the suffering they endured. No one can bring back the dead or restore the shattered lives of those who survived, but we can still respect the memory of their sacrifice by preserving it intact”
- Norman G. Finkelstein, Pg. 14 – ‘This Time We Went Too Far‘
I recently purchased Norman Finkelsteins new book,’This Time We Went Too Far’ – a concise overview of the destruction conscripted unto the people of Gaza,it’s implications and how it has vitalized the public “not just to mourn”, as Finkelstein eloquently states,”but to act”.
The international community,many of whom were once paralyzed by senseless apathy,went through a massive sense of reconstruction; Those who conveniently took the side-lines were thrust into a horrid and paralyzing reality – silence was complicity.
“The truth can no longer be denied or dismissed. The documentation of the Arab-Israeli conflict set out by respected historians fundamentally conflicts with the version popularized in the likes of Leon Uris’s Exodus. The evidence of Israeli human rights violations compiled by respected mainstream organizations cannot be reconciled with its vaunted commitment to “purity of arms.” The deliberations of respected judicial and political bodies cast severe doubt on Israel’s avowed commitment to a peaceful resolution of the conflict. For a long while Israel’s “supporters” deflected the impact of this accumulating documentary record by wielding the twin swords of The Holocaust and the “new anti-Semitism.”
- Excerpt from ‘This Time We Went Too Far‘
The phases of this abridged work begin with cognizance and ends with accountability; “Israel must be held accountable for its crimes in Gaza. For those in Gaza who lost loved ones, homes and livelihoods, such a reckoning is elementary justice, which it would be immoral to deny them.”
‘This Time We Went Too Far’ – Truth & Consequences of The Gaza Invasion is a compendiary work,which was comparatively out of order in terms of what I’m used to from Finkelstein; Included in the appendix of the book happens to be the letter from Hamas to U.S. President Barack Obama,written June 3rd,2009.
I highly recommend Finkelsteins latest oeuvre, which shall be embraced alongside his other works documenting Israels history of a seemingly perpetual reign of injustice and inhumanity.
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