Norman Finkelstein is one of the world's most distinguished scholars on Israel

Palestine who has written probably the definitive account of Israel's

decades-long war on Gaza.

His book, Gaza, an inquest into its martyrdom was published in 2018,

and it gives a forensic account of Israel's two previous bombing campaigns on the strip. Operation

Cars led in 2008 and Operation Protective Edge in 2014. I spoke to Norman Fornebar

alive on the 4th of December to discuss events since October the 7th and Israel's latest assault on Gaza.

Half of this conversation was

here.

an incredibly expansive and challenging conversation

and I began by asking Norman about his view

on the last three days of Israel's assault on Gaza so that

since the end of the seven-day ceasefire which collapsed last week.

My reaction was a personal one.

Yesterday there was an article in the Guardian,

your Guardian, about these grids that Israel had handed out or posted on the web of where the people in the south of Gaza are supposed to flee.

And the article, I guess it was in the comment is free section of the Guardian. The article indicated the extent to which these

quote-unquote instructions are

chaos.

Nobody knows which way to go

where is safe, where is not safe.

Most of these instructions are inaccessible to large parts of the population and as I was

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