Norman Finkelstein Quotes

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• The Zionists indeed learnt well from the Nazis. So well that it seems that their morally repugnant treatment of the Palestinians, and their attempts to destroy Palestinian society within Israel and the occupied territories, reveals them as basically Nazis with beards and black hats.

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  Israel, Black, Society

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• Why should these Palestinians, who have lived in Jerusalem for hundreds of years, be evicted from their homes so that Jews from Brooklyn can live in them?

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  Home, Years, Brooklyn

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• The Holocaust has proven to be an indispensable ideological weapon. Through its deployment, one of the world's most formidable military powers, with a horrendous human rights record, has cast itself as a "victim" state, and the most successful ethnic group in the US has likewise acquired victim status.

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  Military, Successful, Rights

  "The business of death" by Norman Finkelstein, www.theguardian.com. July 12, 2000.

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• Insofar as Zionism sought to solve the Jewish question, it must be reckoned not just a failure but a catastrophe: Israel is the main cause of anti-Semitism in the world today.

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  Israel, World, Today

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• There's nothing Israel can do without US support. It can't breathe without US support. The US bankrolls everything, and it's just silly to think that Israel can do anything without the support.

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  Silly, Thinking, Israel

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• They used to say Palestinians fight like heroes, now they say heroes fight like Palestinians

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  Hero, Fighting, Used

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• It's utterly hypocritical for Israelis to wonder aloud why Palestinians don't pursue a non-violent strategy. One obvious reason is that, whenever they have, Israel brutally represses it.

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  Israel, Wonder, Strategy

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• Israel has come out of the boils of the hell, a satanic state.

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  Israel, Satanic, Hell

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• International law says people fighting for self-determination can use force in order to achieve their independence.

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  Determination, Fighting, Self

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• There is a fundamental principle. People have the right to defend their country from foreign occupiers, and people have the right to defend their country from invaders who are destroying their country. That to me is a very basic, elementary, and uncomplicated question.

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  Country, People, Principles

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• I think Israel, as a number of commentators pointed out, is becoming an insane state. And we have to be honest about that. While the rest of the world wants peace, Europe wants peace, the US wants peace, but this state wants war, war and war.

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  War, Thinking, Europe

  Interview with Selcuk Gultasli for "Today's Zaman" (Turkey), www.thehypertexts.com. January 19, 2009.

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• Judging by opinion polls, Israel has bigger problems than me. It is among the most hated countries on the planet. It should stop acting like a lunatic state. Once it carries on like a normal country, I will be happily redirect my energies elsewhere.

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  Country, Hate, Crazy

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• They've (Israel) lost the battle for public opinion. They claim it's because American Jews know too little.. I claim it's because they know too much about the conflict, and young liberal Jews have difficulty defending the use of cluster bombs in Lebanon or supporting the Israeli settlements.

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  Knowledge, Israel, Battle

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• My parents often wondered why I would grow so indignant at the falsification and exploitation of the Nazi genocide. The most obvious answer is that it has been used to justify criminal policies of the Israeli state and US support for these policies.

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  Support, Parent, Criminals

  "The Holocaust Industry: Reflections on the Exploitation of Jewish Suffering". Book by Norman Finkelstein, 2000.

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• September 11 was a godsend for Israel. It could now conjoin its merciless persecution of the Palestinians with Bush's War against Terror. But my impression is that it wasn't altogether successful.

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  War, Successful, Israel

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• American Jews are overwhelmingly liberal. By "liberal," I mean, basically, support for the rule of law, support for human rights, support for peace; and on all those counts - rule of law, human rights, peace - Israel's record has become indefensible.

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  Mean, Support, Human Rights

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Indeed, the field of Holocaust studies is replete with nonsense if not sheer fraud.

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  Holocaust, Fields, Study

  "The Holocaust Industry: Reflections on the Exploitation of Jewish Suffering". Book by Norman Finkelstein, 2000.

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• Apart from my parents, every family member on both sides was exterminated by the Nazis.

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  Parent, Sides, Nazi

  "The Holocaust Industry". Book by Norman Finkelstein, www.theguardian.com. 2000.

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• As Israel becomes like South Africa, it's increasingly becoming a pariah state, being excluded from culture at large.

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  Culture, South Africa

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• As one Israeli said, "It's a big mistake for Israel to say it 'won' the war, when there was no war. There were no battles...no military enemy in the field."

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  Military, War, Mistake

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• War is not a means to an end, it is the end, whereas politics is merely the hiatus between wars.

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  War, Mean, Hiatus

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• The Holocaust industry has always been bankrupt. What remains is to openly declare it so. The time is long past to put it out of business.

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  Past, Long, Holocaust

  "The Holocaust Industry". Book by Norman Finkelstein, www.theguardian.com. 2000.

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• The Holocaust only emerged in American life after Israel's victory in the 1967 Six Day war against its Arab neighbours.

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  War, Israel, Holocaust

  "The business of death" by Norman Finkelstein, www.theguardian.com. July 12, 2000.

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• People are motivated by the desires for privilege, for power, for profit. Those are not shocking revelations. Anyone who's had any experience in life knows these things.

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  People, Desire, Privilege

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• Everybody wants peace. That's a truism. There is no point in accomplishing through war what you can accomplish through peace.

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  War, Want, Accomplish

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