This book is a detailed account of the harassment and suffering that the Israeli occupation visits upon the Palestinian People day in and day out. It is indispensable not only for understanding the Israeli-Palestine conflict but for understanding the Palestinian Rage as well. If I were forbidden access to my ancestral farm lands or made to wait at a checkpoint for hours on end just so I could visit my relatives or see a physician or simply shop for, say, enough food to sustain my life, if I had to wait years just to get a building permit to build on my own land only to see that house get razed to the ground by the misnamed IDF, etc., etc., it is very possible indeed that I, too, would want to fire rockets upon the very people responsible for making my life a daily hell. What Mr. Makdisi describes is nothing less than a systematic attempt to torment, de-moralize, and humiliate an entire people. This book documents in painstaking and often mind-numbing detail the very high human cost of Zionism.