"People have the right to defend their country……" — Norman Finkelstein
"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."
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Norman Finkelstein
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46 Quotes by Norman Finkelstein
Norman Finkelstein has 46 quotes on this site.
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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…
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I think Israel, as a number of commentators pointed out, is becoming an insane state. And we have to be…
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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…
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My parents often wondered why I would grow so indignant at the falsification and exploitation of the Nazi genocide. The…
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The Zionists indeed learnt well from the Nazis. So well that it seems that their morally repugnant treatment of the…
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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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International law says people fighting for self-determination can use force in order to achieve their independence.
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They used to say Palestinians fight like heroes, now they say heroes fight like Palestinians
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There is a fundamental principle. People have the right to defend their country from foreign occupiers, and people have the…
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Apart from my parents, every family member on both sides was exterminated by the Nazis.
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Goldstone has done terrible damage to the cause of truth and justice and the rule of law. He has poisoned…
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Each of the various tactics that have been tried to get Israel to budge.. nonviolent resistance, legal accountability, BDS (Boycott,…
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It is my contention that civil disobediences are nothing but the latest form of voluntary association, and that they are…
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As far as we are concerned, we are ready to leave today, tomorrow, at any time, to join the people…
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Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause…
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It's tough to be a 15- or 16-year-old athlete competing around the country. There's tension, there's media. I had no…
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An illness is like a journey into a far country; it sifts all one's experience and removes it to a…
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Today, the Iraqi citizen sees that America is coming and wants to occupy his country and kill him, and he…
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What a country needs to do is be fair to all its citizens - whether people are of a different…
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I mean, it is an extraordinary thing that a large proportion of your country and my country, of the citizens,…
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Presidents do not go off on leave without telling the country.
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Canada is a balloon-puncturing country. You are not really allowed to be an icon unless you also make an idiot…
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I've had trouble now and again in Nigeria because I have spoken up about the mistreatment of factions in the…
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Foreignness is all around. Only in the heart of the heart of the country, namely the heart of the United…
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