Israel did not "assault" Gaza. They went after Hamas, in self defense, after Hamas started and continued to fire rockets into civilian areas of Israel to provoke the military response. Hamas is a terrorist group that denies Israel's right to exist and who's whole political and military strategy is the destruction of Israel. Israel warned civilians in advance they were striking in self defense and told them to get away from military targets. This report does not even hint at Israel's side of the conflict and how they were supposed to stop Hamas from firing rockets into Israel without doing it militarily. As far as proportionality of violence. When the US dropped the nuclear bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki this was never a question. When the Allies bombed Berlin to end the war this was not a question. Why is Israel held to such impossible standards by the liberal left in America. How sad that Finkelstein has forgotten the meaning of "Never Again".