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  • Communist fool. He's also an anti-american, btw... is anyone surprised?

  • This might be the only Jew I will ever look up to.

  • so black and white... they were un-accepted by the arab world .... Israel is now the homeland of the Jewish people.. and turned desolate desert into fruitful farming...shema yisrael

  • he looks like a total liar and he is a total liar!!

  • @imamalikossgesh

    haha...he rapes bitches like you on a daily basis

  • @imamalikossgesh What a convincing argument!! Please give yourself a medal lol

  • @imamalikossgesh

    Because he looks Jewish is no reason to state that he looks like a liar.

  • Norman looks pretty darn cool here. Can't deny that.

  • @LibnanGR He always does.

  • Is there any reason for that? Yes. They have been continually attacked by their neifghbors.

  • Great new film on Youtube titled- "The Last Days of the Big Lie"

     youtube.com/watch?v=-48HQpgQRz­0

    Dr. David Duke's latest video- “The Real Rogue Nuclear State” is great also: youtube.com/watch?v=KLSlmLx4Fl­s

  • 1:23 to 1:29.....TOTAL child molester laugh.

  • Finkelstein being interviewed by some blonde American girl wearing a Shemagh.....i wonder if there's going to be a pro-Palestinian bias here?

  • ...these are the people who are going to set the world on fire......

  • Julia ought to ask herself the question: why have Arabs attacked Israel so frequently since her declaration of a state? And the answer to that question is that Islam does not accept any other group to be sovereign, only Islam and its caliphate.

    When Finkelstein states that Israel does not fit into the middle east, he is merely echoing the anti-Jewish attitude of countless other haters of Jews: Chamberlain, H.G. Wells, Lord Moyne, Hitler, Chomsky, etc. He has made a career out of his "anti"

  • @72Yonatan: & when have the Arabs attacked Israel?

    why do u ppl always trying 2 drag religion in to it. it is pretty basic and very political. European 'Jews' invaders came along and built a state on land that didnt belong to them. is it surprisin the inhabitants of that country don't want to welcome them with open arms?

    typical. everytime any1 is critical of Israel drag the trusty old accusations. primarily: antisemitism, Holocaust denier or ant Jewish. seriously be a little more original.

  • @elipse135

    Excuse me, but most of Israel's population is not from Europe, and of those from Europe, very few are descendants of Holocaust survivors. And Israel has had to defend from Arab attacks since before the state was founded. "Arab" is an ethnicity, not a religion. You are confused, and spreading confusion. Regardless of your reason for hating Jews and Israel, I resent the hatred, and one day it will end - when God has decided that enough is enough. So keep your lame excuses for that day

  • @72Yonatan you dont even have th decency to read ur own post berfore u reply to my response to it. u did mention religion. caliphate, sharia law or islam doesnt have anything to do with who the land belongs to,which is the palestinians. most of the 'jews' there emigrated form europe.

    when did i say i hate jews? i despise anyone who supposrts israel and all of it crimes. i HATE anyone who doesnt stand up for justice and israel is anti justice. u have the nerve to mention god? unbelievable.

  • @elipse135

    It is obvious that you are just another closed minded supporter of Arab triumphalsim over Jews and other minorities. The Land of Israel belongs to the Jews, and we are its only legitimate occupants. Everyone else is a guest or a colonizer, including Arabs.

  • @72Yonatan: be in denial for as long as u like. the land belongs to Palestinians and did so for the past god knows how many centuries. i am an open minded supporter of justice and no matter how much u babble u can not convince me ethnic cleansing and genocide is cool because the 'chosen people' are doing it.

    this is not Arabs vs Jews. it is right vs wrong,. it is not my fault that the Jews in this instance are obviously the transgressors.

  • @72Yonatan becouse "god" have it to you right!!! idiot!

  • WAKE UP WESTERN WORLD ISRAEL IS KILLING YOU SLOWLY BUT SURLY. WESTERN BECOMING LIKE SLAVE TO ISRAEL ITS LIKE THEY ARE RULING  THE WEST. THE ISRAELIS ARE MESSING WITH THE GIANT, HE'S ASLEEP NOW BUT SOONER OR LATER HE'LL WAKE UP.

  • @Aljubanny its not isreal alone, its all the jews that are takeing all the important jobs, all the jewish politions controlling the countries of the world, and jews stick to each other because they are jews....we're practicly under jewish controll....because people were under jewish controll the nazis rose up & were sick of it. the nazis warned the world from the jews, and now we're paying for not listening.

  • @mogul50 Your absolutely right why you think they went from British to U.S.. power shifting, they know that America was becoming the world most powerful country so the left Britain and came to dominate the U.S. They took the highs jobs owned the most important companies that hold U.S GOV. and they control it. There was a U.S president that said if the Jews ever to take over U.S Government they would make you American and your kids there slave. Iraq war protecting America or Israel.ppl wakup

  • I could see this with my own eyes.

    It's good to have it confirmed by reliable intelligence.

  • Here's a question for anyone interested in this topic. Question is not meant to be slanderous or sarcastic, but is important to think about whenever listening to, or reading materials by, Mr. Finkelstein. Question is; "Is Norman Finkelstein a 'traitor' to his people?" If so, it colors his views. If not, it reinforces his views in an uncomfortable manner. It's worth thinking about.

  • @randy109 don't confuse Israel, a country run by politicians in a 'secular' state, with Jewish people. Israel doesn't represent Jewish people worldwide, and many Jews oppose Israel's policies. So Finkelstein speaking against Israel, isn't speaking AGAINST Jews, anymore than people speaking against BUSH were speaking against Christians. He's no traitor, he's a human being with a conscience.

  • @mistersumthing aaahhmm, all jews are guided by the talmud....all jews are united by the talmud, every jew has a right to lie to a non jew (according the talmud) they will lie to all of us, but not on each other. you cant trust the jews... and everything the isrealties do are justified by the talmud, since those arabs are beasts of the world, "hearthens" and the talmud justifies any murder against non jews, any unjust against non-jews.

  • @mogul50 i'm no fan of Israeli policy, but making blanket statements about Jews is as bigoted as someone doing the same about Muslims. I'm assuming you're a Muslim, but don't forget that the foundation of Islamic monotheism is based on Abraham, same as Jews or Christians. The Qu'ran recognizes this, so making blanket statements about Jews in insult, is essentially insulting Islam too, because Islam recognizes Judaism, even if Jews don't do the same in return. Don't fight bigotry with bigotry.

  • @mistersumthing ... unlike judiasm, islam is a branch created BY the jews...just like christianity, you dont have to be an ethnic jew to be christian or islamic, you have to be an ethnic jew to be jewish, you have to be born jewish... and no i'm not a muslim, i'm an atheist.

  • @mogul50 just like Judaism, you're knowledge of either is pretty shallow. The problem is perhaps that you seem paranoid and bigoted against Jews, and that seems to cloud little things like history, facts or anything else.

  • If there is any analogy to be made, I would put the Jews in the category of the colonized: think of the million Jews once living on islamo-arab soil and asked to be happy with their status of 'dhimmi' (tolerated). Zionism is a movement of liberation/decolonization. That's why arabs can't stand it! When the humiliated recovers it's rights, the oppressor feels humiliated.

  • @warmperson2007 Actually the jews that lived amongst our side in arabia where treated very fair. I dont know why people like you make a mockery of history.. Why do people always want to point fingers at the muslims where in fact they have know evidence to back up their claims. Ask yourself this honest question, can you prove muslim terrorists exist? or is it just the media that tell's you so.

  • @XxANXxful The so-called 'love story' between the Arabs and the Jews living on Islamo-Arab soil is a pure myth. Jews and Christians were 'tolerated' provided they accept the supremacy of Islam. Besides, if you take a look at the archives of the ALLIANCE ISRAELITE FRANCAISE, you will see many cases of persecutions and humiliations, in Morocco, Yemen, everywhere.

    When grandparents fled from Aleppo on NOV1947 they -and all the other Jews- said: 'Never again will we live on arab soil!'.

  • @warmperson2007 That is very low to say, in Yemen today, there is still a sect of islam that is treated badly. i mean really badly, but we deal with it. In syria today, you have a large number of jews living their, the only place were jews were treated badly was in Yemen. Syria always had jews, you see the pathetic thing is, if one person was treated wrong, and ended up to be jews, you guys percieve it as a racial thing. The jews in Israel live on arab soil, youre contradicting yourself

  • @XxANXxful 1/There is not one Jew living in Syria today. They all left! In the arab world in general, out of 1 million Jews in 1947 there are only a few thousands today.

    2/ Are the Jews in Israel living on arab soil? Thanks to zionism Israel is NOT ANYMORE arab soil. Today Israel is the only place where the Jew doesn't feel alienated; where he doesn't need to be 'treated well'. Zionism is a movement of liberation, emancipation, DECOLONIZATION. The Arabs don't like it, only because of that!

  • @warmperson2007 I understand what you mean for the jews, but you mispelled a word in there. Zionism is a movement of COLONIZATION, i honestly dont understand how you dont see it. Ok, so i would feel bad for the Jewish race, really im not kidding, but just because i feel bad for them, doesn't mean i would justify what they had brought upon us in the arab world. They went, against anyone's will and occupied our lands, buddy, 3000 years is a long time, they are Europeans by origin

  • @warmperson2007 But seriously though, i can understand your point about the treatment of Jews throughout the years, and from my studying of these great people, Zionism is ruining these original semitic people

  • This man is a hero. His family lost many people during the holocaust, but he hasn't succumb to Zionism and he's speaking out against Israel and for humanity.

  • @Bill1275w I am viewing this because my name happens to be Finkelstein. But let's be honest: the number of Arabs who died as a result of conflict since the creation of Israel in 1948 is approximately 12 million. (I am talking only WITHIN the arab world) Only 0.5% of those, died as a result of the Israel-Arab conflict. The interviewer fure sure ignores this simple fact. And Norman F. appears to me as some kind of self hating lunatic. Serioulsy! You think he's a hero? Speak for yourself!

  • @warmperson2007 So Arabs should be self hating and be happy to be thrown out of their homes and off their lands? It's funny how racists (not calling you one) bring up wars amongst indigenous peoples as an excuse to dominate them as if there were never any wars in Europe. That's where the biggest wars were and the continent is virtually soaked in blood from Greece and Rome to medieval melees to the World Wars to Northern Ireland, Serbia and Chechnya. Surely you can't be serious.

  • @Bill1275w OK! I see that you are making an analogy between the Israelis and 19th and 20th century European colonialists. If there is any analogy to be made, I would put the Jews in the category of the colonized: think of the million Jews once living on islamo-arab soil and asked to be happy with their status of 'dhimmi' (tolerated). Zionism is a movement of liberation/decolonization. That's why arabs can't stand it! When the humiliated recovers their rights, the oppressor feels humiliated.

  • competence not recognized

    error#@

    any escalate of violence is wrong

    Peace talks between Palestinian and Israelis

  • Norm is right again. Hey fellow americans, do you realize we know next to nothing about what really happened in ww2. Who prints our schoolbooks, tells the news, 30 movies a year on the holocaust, I'm not saying it didn't happen but the numbers are inflated from about 300,000 dead instead of 6 million. Check the jewish European almanacs yourself. I was shocked too. Anyway, when you own the printing press, you write, or in this case, re-write the history to suit your future needs, oops, wants

  • Finkelstein all the way, this man would tell the truth even if it leads to his death, may god give him the power to continue fighting for justice.

  • This man is full of lies.Gaza not hungry medicines are coming in more they come in to suburbs of rio de janeiro and Moscow city.The man is radical left.Chavez is a kid in comparing to him.He is not for peace this man stimulate war.

  • What a nazi mindset this idiot has. He says take out the big stick? Thats what jews understand from 60 years of stealing land. I bet if the american indians took back all the land the jews have in america they might have some idea what being robbed means. This man looks ugly, sounds ugly, and seems ugly. Who would want to listen to his evil views.

  • @notandywarhol

    you've misunderstood him completely...what you're criticizing about what he said is a position he is describing (the Israeli hardline viewpoint). he isn't advocating violence, he's saying that's what is done.

  • One of the most clever intellectuals alive.

  • her pimples r going to pop!

  • It's great listening to Norman Finkelstein his voice sends everybody to sleep.

  • Mr.Finkelstein views are purely idiotic ;)

  • Norman Finkelstein is amazing.

    This is probably the most awkward interviewer in the entire United States and all of its clients, lol

  • Noram Finkelstein is a disgrace and a misinformed liar. He bends over backward to to disassociate himself from his roots. He is so desperate to prove that he will not be influenced by his Jewish heritage that he feels he has to make radical comments condemning Israel. I couldn't believe that on an interview with an Arab reporter on Youtube he actually said "Hitler would rather have achieved his aims peacefully." He is meant to be a scholar who makes completely false statements like that.

  • @spiderfish88 Mr.Finkelsrein is unable to be a holocaust denier but, he is surely

    a holocaust victim.

  • @spiderfish88

    That's quite logical ! If Hitler could have had what he wanted "peacefully", without any resistance, any war, he would have done so, but thanks God it was not the case !!

  • @MlleCirta Ok that obviously is not logical because he obviously wouldn't have expected to achieve anything peacefully so war was always what he had in mind. Either way, war was part of his ideology and peace wasn't. In mein kampf he even said " man has prevailed in eternal struggle, only in eternal peace does man perish." So again, Finkelstein is an idiot for thinking that Hitler ever wanted peace. I suppose he would have rather killed Jews peacefully too? He is totally deluded

  • @spiderfish88 I think your reasoning is based on your emotions. Finkelstein is an excellent scholar who allways provides documentation and evidence for his sayings. And he is right about HItler. Hitler -just like any other dictator or mass murderer- would have wanted to acheive his goals by NOT going to war. It's actually very logical if you think about it. Just like Saddam would have wanted to annex Kuwait and Iran without facing resistance. I mean that would have been the dream scenario.

  • @fghtupx It is nonsense to even talk of Hitler wanting to achieve his goals without war. Obviously that was never possible which he knew so it is a pointless and irrelevant statement. Secondly like I said, a central component of Nazi ideology was this social Darwin theory that the strongest survive in a constant struggle. I repeat what Hitler said in Mein kampf which encapsulates this point: "Man has grown strong in eternal struggle. Only in eternal peace does man perish."

  • The Jews want to "ethnically cleanse" Israel, the Westbank and Gaza by wearing down the Palestinians in endless conflicts.They run the US gov by proxy, the worldwide-key positions in media and economy wich enables them to force the EU,Russia and China into compliance.Hence, the Palestinian resistance is totally futile.

  • c'est un homme intelligent

  • whoa finklestein showin strong views, at least he sees whats actually goin on in the israeli-palestinian conflict

  • Total Hero

  • this man is hero

  • This man is an american hero.

  • why isnt it posting!?

  • Egypt is the most powerful Arab country and was the most terrible enemy of Israel in the wars of 1948, 1967 and 1973. Egypt recognized the State of Israel and made peace in 1979. So did Jordan in 1994. Egypt got back its occupied territories during the Six Day War of 1967.

  • Correction Saudi Arabia is the most powerful arab country now.

  • sucks its run by retarded ppl

  • @selh91 aww well thank u, but i dont think any country in the world would send more than 100,000 students to study all over the world, pay for all the tuitions, and pay u as a student 2,700 dollars, so I think people should be jealous..... too bad for u.

  • Israel ain't Nazis, Nazis were better.

    Israel are just greedy bastards who don't listen to no one, USA is obviously gonna turn their back on them.

  • @187Godhand2 That's extremely inappropriate.

  • Israel is a terrorist State and has become a rogue country with no intention of slwoing down. It has become impossible for them to defend their appalling treatment of the Palestinians in Gaza so the now resort to calling anyone that criticizes them anti semites. This way they can deflect the truth from being told and can use their slander to avoid having to explain why they think that it is ok to drop white phosphorous grenades on innocent civilians in the OT.They are the new Nazis..bottom line.

  • L U C I D . . .

  • Way before WW2, the ordinary Jews didn't want to move into Palestine. They knew even then, that it's impossible to have peace there.

    Israel is a mistake!

  • god i love this man

  • thank you

  • norman finkelstein is my hero

  • @sweetnicky2585 He is defiantly someone to look up to

  • @sweetnicky2585 Hey, I said it first. :D

  • @sweetnicky2585 Finklesteen is a hero ? You can´t be serious.

  • yeah, its too bad he's absolutely right about everything. Zionist Fascism is being exposed and the American public is waking up to it.

  • 88

    Punchkicker88

    Muslim nazism is exposed to whole world today and their mencaneries and paid agents like Norman Finkelstein also.

    88(HeiHitler!)

  • It seems you are ignorant of what Nazism stands for; Islam you idiot is a religion of peace that recognizes Christianity and Judaism as religion of GOD. Get it right you idiot before posting your hate messages.

  • LIVEWITHHONESTY

    amputations of limbs and Arms,child mariagges,stoning of woman,cuting out the tongues,honor killings.... ower 3 000 000 people killed in Islamic jihads and inter-islamic slaughterings.Islam is not religion of God.Islam is pure evil.

  • LIVEWITHHONESTY

    SHAME ON YOU FOR BLOCKING ME!yOU COULDN'T HANDLE THE TRUTH SO YOU BLOCK IT!

  • @Punchkicker88 Why don't you just fuck off? It's NF jackasses like you who legitimise Israel's claim that all criticism is based on anti-semitism.

  • 'Frankensteins monster'

    -----Maryla Husyt Finkelstein, Norman's mother On her own son

  • the destruction of Israel is imminent,

  • im so attracted to him

  • As I understand it 4.5 million irish either starved to death in Ireland or boarded doomed ship wrecks in a desperate attempt to survive.4.5 million!!!!!

    So why is it the they have only paddys day in march and choose rarely to refer to it??

    How about the 20 million russians during wwii ?? Agreed what the germans did was unnatural but they were equally murderous to all those that fell under their evil reign.

  • Slavs from all over eastern europe and the balkans. Whilst the jews were specifically targetted the soviets and slavs suffered far more at the hands of the nazis.

  • great answers but weak questions

  • Excellent interview - thanks!

  • Cyprus wants to join the EU.

    Israel wants Bill Clinton as prime minister.

  • Very Good Guy !

  • what the hells up with the interviewer girl. Shes all awkward and not even looking at him. weirdo. On a side note, he's effin brilliant.

  • @grimtango5280

    The first thing i realized when starting to watch the movie. She's definately not professional. She does make it more complicated for her than she would need to. Look: she sits right of Mr. Finkelstein and holds the micro in the right hand.

    After one full minute she will feel how heavy a little micro can be;-)

  • She maybe a PROFESSIONAL SOMETHING ELSE!

  • @peymaania

    Ur a complete Spastic

  • Hey, that's Julia. She's cool. and remember it's an interview and they're both trying to face the camera

  • @Falstaff85 Sounds like you're Julia ;). Or maybe Julia as in juliaisafilmbuff123 ?? haha

  • Israel CREATED Illegally & artificially MANUFACTURED in PALESTINE by BRITISH Army , 1917 to 15-05-1948, they want 2be Europe while in Asia, Oh My beloved, Occupied PALESTINE OF JESUS CHRIST, THE CHRISTIAN HOLLY LAND AS EGYPT WAS THE JEWISH MOSSES'S HOLY LAND AND AS WAS ARABIA THE MUSLIMS & MOHAMMED'S HOLY LAND.

  • israel wants to become a member of the european union? nah, dont think so. a bunch of right wing retards made that up a while ago, but its not true.

  • @Zatzzo 1)Please refer to the EU library for such request

    2)Even the Israely spots teams particpate in the EU games and not the Asian games....

  • excellent interview--good HQ video quality

  • wow this guy is pretty handsome, not just smart

  • Very wise man putting things into very simple words so that everyone can understand.

  • Just out of curiosity, why does Norman and the interview seem so jovial in the beginning?

  • He was bitter against the state long before his denied entry.

  • yea, sure. but for the life of me i cant understand why. any insight?

  • When you defend an oppressed people suffering from extreme expansionist racism, i.e. the Palestinians, you SHOULD be biased and lop-sided: in THEIR favour. After all, shouldn't one be 'biased' and 'lop-sided' in favour of a battered wife against a thuggish, abusive husband?

    Plus, at an even more embarrassingly simple level: this is a politically-themed post. What on earth is politics without bias? The BBC News???!!! Hardly.

  • that analogy is simply not valid. a more accurate one perhaps would something like a belligerent wife with a gang of violent siblings being locked out of the house for fear to the husbands safety.

  • Whose house?

  • Presumably the analogy isn't 'valid' because you are incapable of accepting your own role in perpetuating the violence.

  • The analogy is fine and without complication. If you have a powerful party (The male as backed by supreme patriarchy) which continually pushes the party with basically no power (the female in a male supremacist world) around, then the analogy is fine. Israel has helicopter gunships built in and supplied by the US plus an obscene embarrassment of riches when it comes to nuclear capabilities. Palestinians have no nuclear weapons and no 'Apache' helicopter gunships. The analogy is fine.

  • Plus, how on earth can the husband's safety be in jeopardy when he has a barrage of 'unclaimed' nuclear warheads? Doesn't he know how to arm them?

  • a wonder that he was not killed by some crazy jewish extremist terrorist yet

  • I love this man! I have two of his books: "Holocaust Industry" and "Beyond Chutzpah". I can recommend them for everybody who wants to know what is REALLY happening in Israel !!!!!!

    Finkelstein for president !!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • This guy I truly respect

  • don't even go there B

  • Unless the corrupt Egyptian rulers lose power

  • pig is who bring you to this world sexist pig?how can i be sexist pig i wouldn't tuch julia with a stick! i think she prefer not a jewish di...... you know brit mila ......

  • Bunch of retards leaving negative ratings.

  • Viva Finkelstein!!!

  • Poll: More than 75% of Jewish Israelis want to join EU By Raphael Ahren, Haaretz Correspondent april 22, 2009 haaretz(dot)com/hasen/spages/1­080256.html Shalom considers asking to join the EU By Reuters Lieberman: Israel should join NATO, EU January 02, 2007 Israel Today Lieberman pushes Israel to join EU Janurary 31, 2007 Jerusalem Post jpost(dot)com/servlet/Satellit­e?cid=1167467851423&pagename=J­Post%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
  • lol the EU are the ones that did this poll..

    and Lieberman was not the FM at the time he said it so his dident represent israel view on the EU (very close reletions but nothing more)

    and about the guy point - more then 45% of the jews in israel came from the Middle East and North Africa and not from europ.

    i my self an israeli jew from morocco..

  • All of the Israeli elites are Europeans.

    Name one who is not

  • you dont know what you are talking about..

    the head of the army is half syrian and half Bulgarian..

    number 2 leader of Kadima is a parsian(and allmost number one)..

    number 2 leader of the licod (agein..and allmost number one) is a Tunisian..

    the former head of the labor is from morocco..

    and there is many more..

  • 1) Bulgaria is not in Europe?

    2) Nobody has ever heard of the other folks you mention.

    Meir, Begin, Sharon, Rabin, Livni, Netanhayu, Lieberman, Olmert...all of them quite obviously white

  • 1) the important half is the syrian..-)

    2) meybe no one outside of israel know them (its not true as well - amir peretz... from morocco was known for being the defense minister during the second lebanon war).. but you dident talkd about the world "famus" israeli politicans .. you have talk'd about the israeli elite.

    and no..in the israeli elite there is a lot of sphardic jews..

  • You got pwned by facts...walk away

  • what are you talking about? read the facts man..

    the poll was an EU poll for checking what is the Israelis views about the EU.. so its realy reflect nothing becuse no one in israel realy considering it..

    and avigdor liberman was a small fish whan he said what he said about the EU.. and he got harsh critic about it.

  • Just walk away

  • Isrealis and Palestinians want their own state. Why should we stand in the way? Why should our belief that nations should not be divided amoung racial or ethnic boundries stop Isreal from becoming two states? Please don't argue slippery slope - it gets old.

    This one-sideded video and the comments are concerning. You would think that the PLO and Hamas were peace movements.

    Support Obama, make him keep his word to push Isreal into a two-state solution. Anything else will fail.

  • The truth in this situation is quite one sided

  • Thanks for posting! Norman is a keen mind. The girl interviewing is cute too, wish more girls would use their brains instead of turning into pieces of meat molded by our materialistic, corporate-run culture!

    Israel wants to join the EU? As Norman asks, WHY?

  • Economic advantages.

  • Rather he was wondering why people who want to live under the EU as "Europeans" would go to live in the Middle East rather than in Europe iktself ?!

  • Check out his debate with Alan Dershowitz. It's on YouTube.

  • almost every nation in the middle east is artificially created

    come on finkeldick, you can do better than that

    the us is trying to bring in eastern european countries into nato....maybe poland should move to the united states

    israel wanting to join the eu is for economic purposes....you fucking asshat

  • I thought most Israeli's came from the east, not west ? .

  • they did...from the arab countries that kicked them out

    finkeldick is an asshole

  • Great work!

    i like it

  • Why don't the people in Gaza go into Egypt or traid with them? Oh yeah, there's an Egyptian blockade too. It's not only Isreal keeping them inside that hellhole.

  • Egypt is a US supported dictatorship.

  • Egypt and Israel are total US dependencies, receiving greater than $7 billion a year in military and economic support. israel to keep the arabs in the area in line, and Egypt to keep it out of the conflict as it is the most powerful arab state and the only one that poses a threat to Israeli security.

  • And why is there an Egyptian blockade of Gaza?

  • And Finkelstein is very consistent.

  • She is seating in a weird position.

    Maybe face to face?

  • I think she may be blind.

  • she's not. the place was really small and crowded, this was the easiest set up.

  • I disagree with Norman. Isrealis, Palestinians, people in the Arab world and the United States support intransigent positions for their own selfish interests. Many US administrations have supported Isreal regardless of its behavior. Many Arab nations support Palestinians regardless of their behavior. Both sides have engaged in terrorism. Mutual, reinforcing, self-rightous retribution seems to fuel the fire. This is why peace is so ellusive.

  • israel is the problem.

  • Isreal is part of the problem. My concern about the tone of this interview is that Isreal is the ONLY problem. Am I wrong or were Jews in Palestine thousands of years ago? Come on people - let us think critically. I believe both Jews and Palestinians have the right to live in Palestine. I do see Isreali agression. However, we should not forget the terroism aimed at Isreal and the United States.

  • israel IS the only problem to the israel/palestine problem.

    the jews of thousands of yrs ago have what to do with the european, american and african colonizers of today?

    israel is a colony. its not a nation created by nor peopled by the indigenous inhabitants of that area.

    the counter-attacks against israel and the US are just that, counter-attacks, something the CIA called "blowback."

    terrorism begets "terrorism," if you like.

  • I am aware of the migration of Jews to Isreal. However, many Jews have been living in Palestine for milennia. The fact that Isreal is a colony is nice cocktail party zinger material but is quite irrelevant. What, you want to deport the Jews in Isreal or throw them in a gas chamber? How about we deport all non native americans from the United States? We need to deal with the current situation.

    You kill innocent civilians, you are a terrorist. A terrorist is a terrorist - no excuses.

  • yes many jews have lived there for millennia. so what?

    hardly any, if any at all, that have colonized it have any relation to the jews of millennia ago, except for religion.

    they are colonizers, and that fact would only seem irrelevant to an apologist.

    the colonial context is the reason for the problem to begin with.

    i say let the jews stay. give the right of return to all palestinians and have one secular democratic nation.

    terrorism begets terrorism. place the blame where it belongs.

  • This is what I am saying - even if there was no migration there would have to be a state of Isreal for the Jews that had always been there. Now, I believe the Jewish immigrants have the right to stay and that arguments that Isreal is a colony is irrelevant. Why do people bother to bring this up? A real solution must acknowledge the rights of both Isreal and Palestine. All nations are an artifact of history - what does this point out that is not already obvious?

  • the jews that have always been there didn't require a nation. do you recall any jews of the area calling for a nation during the 800yrs of ottoman rule?

    as i said, the colonizers and their kids should stay. all palestinians in exile should have the right of return. one secular democratic nation should be created.

    no need for religious nations.

    the colonial context is the main context.

    jews comprise a religion, thats it.

    religions are not nations and are not the artifacts you see them as.

  • I do not mean to ask what the definition of 'is' but what do you mean by artifact? Example - technology is the technique for creation cell phones. The cell phone is the artifact. The state is the artifact made of human social technology. Religion is an artifact of social technology - it is a nation. The overlap of the nation and a state is the natural combination of two artifacts into the nation-state. In the US, multiple nations exist in one state. This is not possible in Isreal.