Summary
Retired Israeli general and former national security advisor whose statements on Gaza are quoted in From the River to the Sea by the editors and by Saree Makdisi (From the River to the Sea: Essays for a Free Palestine, lines 208, 779).
Details
- The editors’ foreword records that he “celebrated the spread of epidemics in the strip as an effective accelerant of its depopulation” (line 208).
- Makdisi quotes him approvingly on the Israeli aim “to create conditions where life in Gaza becomes unsustainable”, so that “Gaza will become a place where no human being can exist” — the title of Makdisi’s Chapter 11 (line 779).
Related pages
From the River to the Sea: Essays for a Free Palestine, Saree Makdisi, Genocide, Gaza