title: On the Brink: Israel and Palestine on the Eve of the 2014 Gaza Invasion
author: Alice Rothchild
description: <div><B>Alice Rothchild</B> is a Boston-based physician, author, activist, and filmmaker. She has written and lectured extensively on many topics including the health and human rights effects of the Israeli occupation. Her previous work includes the book <I>Broken Promises, Broken Dreams: Stories of Jewish and Palestinian Trauma and Resilience</I> (Pluto Press 2007) and the documentary film, <I>Voices Across the Divide</I> (2013).</div>
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  # [Acknowledgements](toc.html#toc-acknowledgement)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  My thanks to the following for their time and advice: Marie-Caroline Aubert,
  John Ashworth, Jos Axon, Dorothy Bone, Janet
  
  
  Bowen, Chloe Bowler, Debbie Cook, Nigel Crockford, Diana Franklin, David
  Grundy, Andy Harrington, John Holman, Jack Hurley,
  
  
  Cheryl Jewitt, Hamish Laing, Martin Law, Mark Leonard, Heidi Lewis, Terry
  Lowe, Tina Lowe, Shelly Malan, Peter Mawhood, Clare
  
  
  Sharp, Danielle Stoakes, Eunan Tiernan, Adge Tilke, Serge Vidal, Ian Watt,
  Alyson West, and Charles Wylie.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  This book came from a journey Lin and I made through Syria, Jordan and Sinai
  which happened to coincide with the Israeli attack
  
  
  on Gaza between December 2008 and January 2009. After the first sentence,
  given the circumstances, the story wrote itself.
  
  
  Anyone interested in what happened in Gaza, and in the wider background, might
  turn to _Gaza: Au Coeur de la Tragedie_ by Yves Bonnet and Albert Farhat, and
  to _Witness in Palestine_ by the 