Norman Finkelstein: Hezbollah, Honour in Resistance

Norman Finkelstein, a Jewish American political scientist and author, specializing in Jewish-related issues and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in particular talks about the Lebanese militia Hezbollah and openly supports and praises their resistance: "They (Hezbollah) show courage, they show discipline, I respect that"

On Israeli defeat and consequential withdrawal from Lebanon in 2000, Finkelstein says:"But the reality was -- and everyone understood it -- that the Israeli attitude was: We are going to knock out Hizbullah. They began planning for a new war right after they were forced to leave in 2000. They found their excuse, their pretext, in July 2006, but there is no question among rational people that Israel was never going to let the Hizbullah victory go by."
"There is no way that the United States and Israel are going to tolerate any resistance (to their hegemony) in the Arab world."

On the damage caused to Lebanon as a result of the resistance: "It's better to die on your feet than to walk crawling on your knees....how can I not respect those (Hezbollah) who say they would rather die on their feet? How can I not respect that?"

Finkelstein then goes on to slam the stances taken by some sell out Arabs who continue to admire George Bush like 'Servants' despite Bush being the man behind the carpet bombing of Lebanon and says that Bush should be classified as 'persona non grata':"Who (would) roll out the red carpet less than two years after your whole country was destroyed by them (the US)? "

"You (sell out-arabs) have NO self respect"

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[DivineLove247]

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

while the Arab Leaders are two faced cowards

[Globalfaction]

Go Norman Go!

[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!

[Mercydriver1]

@theresmoretoit1 You're incorrectly labeling resistance as terrorism.

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

[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

[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

[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. :)