Norman Finkelstein Quotes

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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…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• War is not a means to an end, it is the end, whereas politics is merely the hiatus between wars.
• International law says people fighting for self-determination can use force in order to achieve their independence.
• They used to say Palestinians fight like heroes, now they say heroes fight like Palestinians
• 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…
• Apart from my parents, every family member on both sides was exterminated by the Nazis.
• Goldstone has done terrible damage to the cause of truth and justice and the rule of law. He has poisoned Jewish-Palestinian relations, undermined the courageous…
• Each of the various tactics that have been tried to get Israel to budge.. nonviolent resistance, legal accountability, BDS (Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions).. has had…
• Given the nonsense that is turned out daily by the Holocaust industry, the wonder is that there are so few skeptics.
• Every victory of Hezbollah, I celebrate.
• Israel has come out of the boils of the hell, a satanic state.
• 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…
• Everybody wants peace. That's a truism. There is no point in accomplishing through war what you can accomplish through peace.
• I'm politically on the left, no question about it. I oppose sweatshops, I oppose exploitation of labour in the third world.
• Indeed, the field of Holocaust studies is replete with nonsense if not sheer fraud.
• 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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