GRITtv: Norman Finkelstein: Results, Not Rhetoric

Barack Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu discussing their countries' foreign relations resembles two lovers discussing their future together. Though they have squabbled in the past over trivial things (things like settlement expansion that most other countries deem flagrant violations of international law), their July 6th meeting at the White House showed that their "unbreakable bond" cannot be shaken.


Norman Finkelstein joins us in the studio to report that one should judge the alleged "peace process" with results, not rhetoric. Obama has certainly given enough lip service to settlement moratoriums, proximity talks, and direct talks, but what are the results? Since the Oslo Accords in 1993, there are three times as many settlers and Israel has annexed 42% of Palestinian land for even more expansion. Though Obama waxes eloquently about "direct negotiations," there are no signs of Israel withdrawing to the 1967 borders that would only begin to indicate a successful peace process. Distributed by Tubemogul.

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[LSRochon]

Go Dr. FInkelstein!

[ragenut2112]

Deport AIPAC!

[techcafe]

Israel is America's deputy sheriff in the region

[techcafe]

Palestine: The Missing Narrative

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Middle East correspondent Paolo Barnard explains the crucial, yet least known, narrative on the Palestinian struggle against the Israeli occupation state.

The fate of the Palestinian people was sealed 40 years before the Holocaust, as he explains with historical facts and quotes in order to help us understand the real story behind today's tragic events in occupied Palestine.

[antekification]

ISRAEL=BIGGEST THREAT TO WORLD PEACE, APARTHEID STATERRROR REGIME WITH NUKES THAT REJECT PEACE AND LAW!

[Nikjooo]

Not only need the borders to go back to 1967, but palestinians need to get a straight line to part of the jordanian river, AND access to the south sea, including a road straight to gaza.

Only then palestinians will be able to prosper as a nation, and lose their hate, which when you look at how things developed is fully justified.

[Nikjooo]

If you look at 1946 vs 1947 they got free land, you already notice how unfair this was. They cut off palestinians of the south sea, took the big river, cut them almost from the west sea completely.

If you look at 1947 vs what we have now, you will notice that this is genocide. They left the palestinians no way to prosper.

It was right to help Israel get some land for their people. No people should be without land. But we gave em the small finger, and they took the hand.

[Nikjooo]

The israelis should stfu. It makes me sick to see maps of israeli vs palestinian land over the years from 1946 to 2011.

Even the UN partition plan back in 1947 was too generous to them, considering they had no land at all, and found themselves with free land.

Note that they got the best land, going like a penis to the south borders of the sea, so they got access to two major ports for trading. ON TOP of that, they got the source of the jordanian river within their land, stealing all water.

[ActaNonVerba71]

I don't support Israel's colonization of Gaza, but, I would like to colonize the presenter's vajayjay.

[sharafudin2]

Why they talk about relationship like they gonna marry each other some thing what is wrong with stupid American people wake up.