Excerpt: When Major General Giora Eiland penned his now infamous op-ed in Haaretz, referenced above, he sought to justify what has become known as Israel’s “surrender or starve plan,” or the plan to “ethnically cleanse” northern Gaza of its Palestinian population by invoking US military logic and doctrine on the practice of modern siege warfare. Arguing that “there is no component in [the] proposal that is in violation of humanitarian international law,” this discursive framing served a further purpose: to obscure a much longer history of genocidal siege warfare and its practice since the early wars of the Palestinian Nakba (“catastrophe” in Arabic), as the second quotation above highlights.