Personal account by American physician and activist Alice Rothchild of her visit to the West Bank and Israel in June 2014, just weeks before Israel launched Operation Protective Edge, a brutal 51-day bombardment of the Gaza Strip. Documents encounters with Palestinians in the West Bank alongside Israelis of varying political persuasions, providing a ground-level portrait of the social and political atmosphere on the eve of the assault. Combines medical perspective, political analysis, and personal narrative. Recommended for researchers and journalists studying the 2014 War on Gaza and Operation Protective Edge, and for readers seeking a ground-level portrait of the social and political conditions in the West Bank on the eve of the Israel's Gaza assault.
