Norman Finkelstein: Hezbollah, Honour in Resistance

[DorianGrayism]

I don't really understand Finklestein's reasoning.

He says that Israel planned for a conflict again. I am not sure how it is then Israel's fault for the conflict. Maybe, it is a good thing that they planned for the conflict because Hezbollah started it.

[salvi447]

Norman Rocks!

[EnterTheTruth]

damn....he laid the smack down, he really takes it to heart...

[theresmoretoit1]

Well Norm here is someone who did live in Lebanon and does understand their politics:

Hezbollah does not want peace with Israel, nor peace with America nor peace with the western civilization. Hezbollah is a radical hate filled organization bent on destroying the west. We basically have terrorists who were elected to the cabinet in Lebanon by the majority terrorists that they have bred themselves.

Brigitte Gabriel - Leading Terrorist Expert ACT! for America Education

[EnterTheTruth]

@theresmoretoit1 "Gabriel also used to tell audiences that Hezbollah was the group that terrorized her family for the seven years between 1975 and 1982. She stopped making this claim after people objected, pointing out that Hezbollah was formed after she left Lebanon, as a direct result of the Israeli invasion and occupation of 1982." (Al Ahram Weekly 03/08) HAH! hilarious your actually believing this fraud brigitte gabriel as if she is an expert on the issue. too bad she is exposed as a liar

[Mercydriver1]

@theresmoretoit1 You're incorrectly labeling resistance as terrorism.

Mr. Finkelstein is speaking very logically and everything he's saying makes total sense.

[Qatarienne]

Amazing video

"If you want to close your eyes and believe it was all over in May 2000...you can play that game"

I particularly loved that

"خيار الشعب اللبناني كله"؟؟

Shame on her!

[ymd012]

Norman......I wish you were president.

[VaeVictus666]

@KUZTINKOZ u keep lying to urself and keep on dreaming loser. The palestinians r not allowed to form an army dipshit and ur Zionist counter parts make sure of that. So how else r they supposed to defend THEIR country fuckface? We're not weak pathetic nomads like u who surrender every chance they get. Fuck the Zionist pigs.

[Shakibers]

i respect this man so much. thank you for standing up for something you believe in... so blindingly-obvious and terrible, despite the world ignoring these issues. thank you for bringing these issues forward. :)

[Meshick]

"I do not care who Hezbollah are..." - of course you do not .... You care of how much attention you gain .... I wonder if this fucker or all lefties bothered themselves to look into what they giving support ...Or what Baath Party flag looks like ... Or is Israel left allready Lebanon a long time ago ......

[KUZNITZOV]

this is a hipocrit man. he forfet a lot of facts such as israel (which he compares to nazi germany) unlike nazi germany didnt seek to kill people based on their origin and race. we only want to live a normal life and ever since 1948 we were attacked constant times by arab forces. the arab nations know that in open war they cant win over israel so they develop a new warfare, politics. the arab nations are trieing to isolate israel and then they will attack.

[1991rch]

nasrallah, galloway, and now norman

they are my 3 heroes

[YaHossain1]

look how Memri puts subtitles over the arabic subtitles. they don't need to put subtitles when dr. Finkelstein speaks. it's just tomake sure arabs don't read what this man says

[lastgen00]

it s ok if u cant accept what he said, it s ok if u cant agree with him, but u cant deny the fact from all these independent, unbiased, non profit, nonprejudicial world recognized bodies. think of it, dont blind by hollywood style western main stream media brain wash.

[Metsada007]

Western masses are totally brainwashed and extremely ignorant. The truth is world media is controlled by the US, it blindly follows the US government line and Zionist policies.

[salobeans]

Idiot. Nothing but a traitor

[rencrow]

Yes. He is a traitor to zionazism.

[lastgen00]

rencrow s rite.Dr finkelstein is absolutely a true traitor to inhumanity,injustice,liar, zionism, nazism, racism. i am sorry if u feel that he has turned traitor to u. But like most other rationale truth seeker, we found he speaks no lie, especially on statistic based on reliable & reputable independent international bodies e.g. international court of justice, amnesty human right organization, the human right watch, including that of the Israeli founded inland human right organization- b'tselem

[senyah5]

Do you remember, On June 8, 1967, US Navy intelligence ship USS Liberty was suddenly and brutally attacked on the high seas in international waters by the air and naval forces of Israel. The Israeli forces attacked with full knowledge that this was an American ship and lied about it. Survivors have been forbidden for 43 years to tell their story under oath to the American public. The USS Liberty Memorial web site tells their story and is dedicated to the memory of the 34 brave men who died.

[Globalfaction]

Go Norman Go!

[bhvfnhb]

excellent interview. i'm not an anti-semite, but often find it difficult to empathise with 'jews'. Finklestein, you the man, along with Chomsky, of course

[EnjoyMyProfile]

don't forget Galloway

[pamela42666]

The world knows what is happening. Even Americans are waking up. Kinda hard not to, b/c even with the double-speak spin that is mainstream media, kinda hard to convince ppl that genocide isn't going on...genocide. Israel knows this is what it is committing. Of all ppl, they should know better. Shame on them. Thank you Norman Finkelstein.

[katomeoawa]

Finkelstein thinks Lebanese should go to war EVEN THOUGH there is NO REAL REASON - JUST FOR "RESPECT"!!!

...AND...

He's comparing Hezbollah, Iran and Hamas to the US, Russia and Britain WITHOUT MENTIONING the fact that the Allies DID NOT CALL FOR THE DESTRUCION OF GERMANY AND THE GERMAN PEOPLE - THAT IS EXACTLY WHAT IRAN AND THEIR PUPPETS, HAMAS AND HEZBOLLAH, HAVE SET FOR THEM SELVES AS THE ULTIMATE GOAL.

HE IS I-N-S-A-N-E!!!

[lakeeriejew]

The Holocaust never happened. You all know that. We Jews just invented it as an excuse to steal Palestine from the Arabs. So far it has worked. Our goal is complete domination of the Middle East. Eventually we will steal the oil fields from the Saudis and rule from the Mediterranean to the Persian Gulf. Then we will take over the treasuries of all the Western Nations and complete our conquest of the world. Gaza is just a diversion. Don't be fooled by Gaza.

[9Ronaldo9]

clever man!

[farista111]

== 2:48 was really BIG BASH TO memri tv.

enjoyed it!!

Finklestein is indeed

amazing!!

[Arjuna1901]

Finklestein is amazing. Thank god someone is out there speaking the truth amongst the liars and apologists. Bravo.

[kathy467]

Kurtlane, Norman Finkelstien, not only has integrity, but is willing to speak it, at personal costs. You are not listening to what he is saying. Take the cotton out of your ears and listen.

[RomuloBessa]

Each nation has reponsability in respect other nations each other. But to loose territore risk exist when launch a militare atack against other nation. In this case honor exist in try to get back the land control, but more honor in to lose it

[Rockwellbabe2]

Does anyone know which schools he attended growing up? In which city did he live?

[rencrow]

He got his undergrad degree at Binghamton University in NY city in 1974. Masters and PhD in political science from Princeton.

[Rockwellbabe2]

What schools did attend GROWING UP? I presume he was "grown up" when he attended university, but then again...!

I think I he might have attended my elementary school and high school.

[qais503]

Finkelstein is a truly remarkable person. A fighter for truth and justice; a staunch opposer to the Zionist movement, which uses the holocaust as a political tool to justify everything that Israel does. His arguments are clear, unbiased totally backed by facts that the media hides. He will be remembered as a hero because of his audacity to reveal the truth, that is significantly suppressed by the majority of western media.

[Kurtlane]

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Norman Finkelstein. Habitual lier, attention seeker, and the filthiest professor of all. Speculates on the memory of his parents (who lived through the Holocaust) everywhere he can. Has been fired by Brooklyn College, N.Y.U., and several other schools for incompetence, mental instability, and abuse of students.

Peter Novick (University of Chicago professor): "many of [Finkelstein's] assertions are pure invention. ... (cont.)

[Kurtlane]

No facts alleged by Finkelstein should be assumed to be really facts, no quotation in his book should be assumed to be accurate, without taking the time to carefully compare his claims with the sources he cites"

Prof. Omer Bartov (an authority on genocide) called "The Holocaust Industry" "a novel variation on the anti-Semitic forgery, 'The Protocols of the Elders of Zion' ... brimming with indifference to historical facts, inner contradictions, strident politics ... (cont.)

[Kurtlane]

indecent ... juvenile, self-righteous, arrogant and stupid"

When he spoke at Yale on Nov. 10, 2005, he said, "In academia, you can say anything as long as it is footnoted."

From his April 28, 2005 lecture at University of Buffalo: "...the protagonist in the novel, Exodus, was named 'Ari', which is short for 'Aryan' - an example of the Jew's true intent and Jewish racism. It is the whole admiration for this blond haired, blue eyed type." (Total nonsense. (cont.)

[Kurtlane]

(Total nonsense. Ari is short for 'Ariel', from Aryeh - Hebrew fro lion.) In the same lecture said, "In the last fifteen years, there has not been a single death attributed to anti-Semitism in Europe." (Another total nonsense.)

Praised David Irving as "a good historian!" and as having "made an indispensable contribution to our knowledge of World War II."

Finkelstein often seems to be reasonable. He talks about the way "we reasonable and rational people" think. (cont.)

[Kurtlane]

However, people who claim to be reasonable and rational, and even seem to be, aren't necessarily that way.

I call him Filthyswine. I don't usually call anyone by such names. But him... he deserves it. This is not just a matter of difference of opinions.

He called Dean Elana Kagan of the Harvard Law School "an Eichmann-like bureaucrat," then added, "Were my mother still around, ... she would have taken the first train to Cambridge and - (cont.)

[Kurtlane]

- just as she did with the Nazi guards from Maidanek when confronting them at the postwar trial in Dusseldorf in 1979 - called Kagan a whore to her face and then throttled her."

Another example is the mud-slinging fight into which he dragged Alan Dershowitz. First he called Alan Dershowitz "Adolf Eichmann" and accused him of expressing "Nazi moral judgments." Later he commissioned cartoonist Latuff to make a cartoon published on the Website indybay. (cont.)

[Kurtlane]

The cartoon, titled "Dershowitz Hard at Work," shows Dershowitz at an "Israel peep show" masturbating with a rapturous look on his face as he views live film from Beirut of dead Lebanese. It was accompanied by an article written by Finkelstein titled "Should Alan Dershowitz target himself for assassination?"

He is a popular speaker among German neo-Nazis. Ingrid Rimland (wife of Ernst Zuendel) referred to him admiringly as the "Jewish David Irving" (cont.)

[Kurtlane]

In return, he praised David Irving as "a good historian!" and as having "made an indispensable contribution to our knowledge of World War II." (cont.)

He has been fired by Brooklyn College, N.Y.U., and several other schools for incompetence, mental instability, and abuse of students.

However, none of this compares with the outright evil of his support for Hezbollah, which you see in this very video.

[eyeintheskyyyy]

plain and simple - Norman Finkelstein is an idiot

[mjkmd56]

The Emperor has no clothes!

[historicrecord]

Finkelstein is a modern day Kapo witha pathological hatred of Israel. His logic doens't add up. Israel withdrew from Southern Lebanon in 2000. The Russians remained in eastern europe for 50 years. Syria occupied Lebanon since 1976 for thirty years till forced out.

[Minamoto1Yorimasa]

Hittler wasnt peacfull at all.

[saratrade1969]

عن جد خري عليها ولغمطها و على 14 آذار ورجاها كم هي و أفكارها و حججها تافهين

[warmperson2007]

I believe the war in the Middle East to be a war between the extremists of both camps on one side, and the moderates of both camps on the other. The haters of both camps against the peace-makers of both camps.

Unfortunately, Norman Finkelstein has taken the side of the extremists.

[kolkrabe19]

Every decent person is an extremist. Extremists want justice to reign and Israel to be dismantled.

[historicrecord]

Not only has Finkelstein thrown his lot in with the extremists - he is promoted by most Far Right holocaust denial websites and was invited to the Tehran Holocaust denial conference.Its not surprising therefor that he supports the Khomeinist Hezbollah Iranian proxy in Lebanon.

[warmperson2007]

Norman Finkelstein looks like a tormented Jew. May Allah guide him to Islam and let him find peace of mind!

[WineofWisdom]

very cheap shot.

and yet you speak of multiculturalism, shame on you.

[WineofWisdom]

very cheap shot.

and yet you speak of multiculturalism, shame on you.

[hana0o]

Hezbollah is the honour of the arab world

[historicrecord]

Hezbollah is actually iranian sponsored and ideologically motivated by Knomeini.

[yahala01]

hes right. the arab people should wake up. and listen to him. stand up for what you believe in

[ihnasser]

I amy disagree with a person or an organization on thousands of issues but I can never ignore the fact that people have the right to defend their right and resist occupation. Just immagine someone tries to take one inch of the USA,of course it will never be allowed because everyone of us in USA will rise with all means to destroy any one who attempmts to do so

ADEL FADEL

Chicago Area, Il

[sifolux]

just imagine someone fires rockets from an area not occupied (hint:gazza) on to cevilian poulation, what would the u.s or any other country would do...

[Anatolia90105]

does he have some disease or somthing?

[historicrecord]

Finkelstein is a modern day "kapo" with a pathological hatred of Israel.His logic doesn't add up.Israel withdrew from Southern Lebanon in 2000. Russians remained in eastern europe for 50 years.Syria occupied Lebanon.

[shorty40merza]

israel didnt withdraw from lebanon, it was kicked out of part of lebanon and still occupies some part (sheba farms)

[historicrecord]

shorty - Syria occupied 60% of Lebanon and got booted out by the Lebanese. Israel never had more than a slither.

[sifolux]

sheba farms belong to the syrians you twat...

[aliAK13]

u have no logic, what kind of freakin argument is that? next.

[lethalmk]

lol @ Israel "withdrawing" .. how about .. israel "dragged their asses " out ... israel "got kicked " out ... withdrew lol its ok the world needs idiots like you ...

[oldjoe5]

Israel has occupied Palestine for over 60 years and the West Bank for 40

[Thulfeqar]

good video. thanks.

[cherylgraham2]

Interesting interview - thanks for the post.

[7789902]

This dude is only saying what ordinary people have been saying for years. Israel is always ranked at the top or 2nd place as the state that's the largest threat to world peace - and all the bad things that go with that type of country. Every poll shows them actually ahead of Hezbollah and even the USA and Iran. So? What's new? The media only confirms this during polls and then they are mute about it after.

[DivineLove247]

Finkelstien, is more Arab, even though he is not an Arab,

while the Arab Leaders are two faced cowards

[7789902]

That is true but Israel is an apartheid state and consequently IS facist by that very nature. Why don't you say shit about that?

[cine0]

I have to agree. I have not heard Finkelstein speak so strongly before. I am very impressed with this clear thinking and courageous stance.

I think it, but I don't know if I'd say it out loud.

Well done Mr Finkelstein. A real hero.

[magnoid]

I've never seen Finkelstein talk about his personal beliefs as much as this. He's very passionate and has an encyclopedic knowledge of modern Middle Eastern issues; all this provides continuity to his conversations which make them entertaining to watch.

I have to say though, If I were that reporter, I'd have a difficult time not taking what he said personally.

[DelinquentFaith]

Holy shit.... It's sad but with the way America is today, only those with no self respect get to be our friends. Anyone who speaks their minds gets crushed by our media or military.