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FOREWORD BY Dr. MAHATHIR BIN MOHAMAD, former Prime Minister of Malaysia

“Dan Steinbock’s The Obliteration Doctrine: Genocide Prevention, Israel, Gaza and the West is not only a deeply original examination of the ongoing genocide in Gaza from multiple dimensions, but also a timely theoretical framework that warns against the emerging destructive warfare in the 21^st century…. This book will serve as both a critical resource for understanding the Gaza case and a roadmap for preventing future genocides.” AHMET DAVUTOGLU, former Foreign Minister and Prime Minister of Turkiye. Founder and leader of the Future Party, author of Systemic Earthquake: The Struggle for World Order (2019), and prominent academic in International Relations.

“The West did not flounder into genocide complicity – it plunged into it willfully. Dan Steinbock’s timely new book explains how.” YANIS VAROUFAKIS, internationally-renowned economist, secretary-general of a pan-European political alliance and the former Finance Minister, Greece

“This important study adds a new term to the lexicon on genocide, ‘the obliteration doctrine’, with its detailed review of and insights into the Gaza conflict of 2023-5, notably in the application of international law and its judicial mechanisms. Dan Steinbock’s discussion of the international legal challenges to Israel’s conduct make this a vital contribution to our understanding of the conflict.” WILLIAM SCHABAS, professor of international law, Middlesex University London and author of Genocide in International Law, Cambridge University Press, 2025

“Dan Steinbock has written an indispensable book that illuminates the most fundamental challenges facing humanity at a time when a massive genocide darkens the skies hovering above the planet. …This is a deeply challenging text that deserves close reading, but more than this, citizen engagement and anti-genocide activism.” RICHARD FALK, former UN Special Rapporteur on Palestine, professor emeritus of international law at Princeton University

“The real purpose of the 1948 Genocide Convention is prevention. This book helps us understand why we have failed.” ALFRED DE ZAYAS, former UN Independent Expert on the Promotion of a Democratic and Equitable International Order, international expert on human rights and ethnic expulsions

“Gaza is our moral ground zero. As Dan Steinbock compellingly recounts, even more shocking than the depth of deprivation in Gaza is the candor with which its architects convey their intent and the impunity they enjoy.” ALEX DE WAAL, internationally renowned authority on famine and the executive director of the World Peace Foundation at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University.

“Dan Steinbock advances the urgent discourse begun in his The Fall of Israel, advancing from a concern with moral responsibility to the framework of legal obligation. His astute analysis dissects how States facilitating genocide—whether through direct aid, political cover, or willful inaction—are culpable under international law… This book is an important contribution to human rights scholarship and a clarion call for justice—when humanity needs it most.” CURTIS F.J. DOEBBLER, international human rights lawyer, professor of law, and author who has practiced and taught international law in several world regions.

“With The Obliteration Doctrine, Dr. Steinbock has provided historians and layman readers alike the definitive guide to understanding the atrocities committed by the Israeli government with the assistance of the American empire. The book is very well documented, very readable, with a great amount of supporting evidence for his claims. I highly recommend it.” SCOTT HORTON, director of the Libertarian Institute, author of Provoked: How Washington Started the New Cold War with Russia and the Catastrophe in Ukraine

“The Obliteration Doctrine places the US-Israeli assault on Gaza in historical context, making clear that it is hardly an Israeli project that the United States and Europe are ‘complicit’ in, but rather a joint project between western governments and Israel to destroy a threat to their hegemony. While it may seem strange to write a book about a genocide that was documented in real time and live streamed to the world, this is a valuable contribution to understanding what happened, how, and why.” DR FEROZE SIDHWA. Trauma and critical care surgeon, and program director of San Joaquin General Hospital volunteering extensively in Palestine, including European hospital in Khan Younis, Gaza, and in Ukraine, Haiti, Zimbabwe, and Burkina Faso.