Norman Finkelstein on Contemporary Atrocities in Palestine Prt 2 2010 (2 of 9)

Gaza Blockade, Gaza Invasion, Flotilla Massacre among others
(Because of technical difficulties the talk is NOT complete, key points of the talk are included though)

Sept 2010 Florida International University.
Students for Justice in Palestine SJP@FIU have invited Dr Norman Finkelstein to speak on the illegal Gaza Blockade. Since 2006 Gaza has been under a blockade by Israel. In the Operation Cast Lead of January 2009 more than 1400 Palestinians were killed by the Israeli Occupation Forces, more than 400 of them were children. Recently 9 activists were killed on the Freedom Flotilla which was carrying humanitarian aid to Gaza by Israel.

Norman Finkelstein is an American political scientist and author whose primary fields of research are the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the politics of the Holocaust. He received his Ph.D in Political Science from Princeton University. He has held faculty positions at Rutgers University, New York University, and most recently, DePaul University. Finkelstein is credited by Noam Chomsky and influenced by Mahatma Gandhi. Dr Finkelstein has also authored the books, This Time We Went Too Far, Beyond Chutzpah and The Holocaust Industry.

Know more : http://www.normanfinkelstein.com/

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[castano2001]

@rfalfonse There is a mistake in your phrasing of the question because there is in fact proof that there were combatants. This is a technical definition of “proof”, that is, the proof that there were combatants is that the reports by the free press in the west say there were combatants. This is the proof and according to this global definition of proof no other evidence is necessary. Our dear leader and press have said it and so this immediately makes it “true”.

[rfalfonse]

These soldiers' accounts make me wonder why the commonly cited Palestinian casualty counts of Operation Cast Lead make any distinction between civilian and combatant. If the soldiers say they didn't fight anyone, that the place was deserted, who exactly were the combatants?