Norman Finkelstein exposes Lies and Frauds as to the Real Cause of the Israel-Palestine conflict

Published on Mar 30, 2016 broadcast in c-span

Norman Finkelstein is the author of “The Holocaust Industry”

“The Images and Reality of the Israel-Palestine Conflict”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_VaKLMD9Aac

He is expounding on the fact that Zionists often use three illegitimate arguments to justify colonization of Palestine that are based on lies and fraudulent ideas. By bringing up these fallacious arguments relentlessly and continuously to hide the real issues of the conflict: dispossession and displacement of Palestinians from their homeland, and enforce upon them disenfranchisement

The Zionists have been, using every tactic and every channel possible – capturing the media, threatening the academia, using Jewish scholars and historians to write books with lies, distortions, and funding some big think tanks, working at the grass-root levels such as Churches, the electoral process, lobbying, campaigning, etc. — are covering up the real issues.

Zionists are using biblical claims to justify a nation-state in Palestine for Jews, that most of the Jews disagree.  The more Israel became powerful and successful, the more Jews became convinced of Zionism. Historically also the Zionists are portraying inherent differences and conflicts between the Arabs and the Jews. They using renowned historians like Bernard Lewis and writer Samuel Huntington created a narrative of ‘the clash of civilization” between the Arabs and Jews that Finkelstein thinks is a lie and hoax. There is no need for invoking these cosmic reasons, he says, when the real reason is simple and straightforward and paramount. The book of Professor Alan Dershowitz, ‘The Case for Israel’ is nothing but a collection of lies, frauds, and concoction.

Finkelstein says that the cause of Israeli-Palestine conflict is not complicated at all. It is simple and straightforward: Israel is occupying and colonizing the Palestinian land.  The conflict is arising from that. The antagonism of the American Indian and their gruesome atrocities towards the while European settlers was also simple: displacement from their land. The Palestinians have the same straightforward reason for their antagonism towards Israel and Zionists: they are being displaced from their own land.

The indigenous population of Palestine feared rightly as it turned out that the success of Zionism would be at their expense. The Israeli-Palestine historian Denny Morris wrote in his book,  ‘The Righteous Victims’:  “The fear of territorial dispossession and displacement was to be the chief motor of the Arab antagonism to Zionism”. He did not mention anti-Semitism, biblical hatred, or clash of civilization in his reasons for Arab-Israeli conflict. The Arabs feared that the success of Zionism would mean displacement and dispossession of themselves.

Finkelstein says the Holocaust industry emerges soon after the June 1967 war and coincided with the realization of the American Jews that the state of Israel is becoming very powerful.

Every ten years a new narrative of anti-Semitism is concocted by the Zionists to keep the real issue on the back burner.

2000  a new industry emerged with a new conglomerate, the new anti-Semitism with historical memory.  With the help of media, every ten years a new version of anti-Semitism is concocted to mislead the public and raise people’s sympathy.

1970 war a new anti-Semitism, Jesus Christ Superstar was anti-Semitism

1974  ADL, the New Anti-Semitism

1982  the Real anti-Semitism,

Everything old becomes new again.

PEW research center, report issued yesterday, they found not only any evidence of anti-Semitism now,  Jews are treated more favorably in the West now.

Ralph Nader, Consumer Advocate and former Presidential Candidate, discusses American Mythology with Chris Hedges.

Two prominent American scholars and historians, Chris Hedges and Norman Finkelstein, expose unthinkable barbarism, atrocities and crimes gains humanity Israel has been perpetrating against the Palestinians for the last seven decades since Israel was created in 1948 but even before that the Zionist terrorist organizations, the Haganah and Irgun did to the Palestinians to drive them out of their homes and homeland to make space for the massive Jewish immigrants in Palestine. It also discusses the inhuman condition Israel has created in Gaza in this modern day and age Israel is getting away with this ethnic cleaning under the patronage of America.

The award-winning journalist Carl Berstein whose work along with that of Bob Woodward on the Watergate Investigation brought the Nixon administration down in 1974, a watershed moment for America as it conveyed to the world that the rule of law prevails and that even the president of the United States of America is not above the law. The world stood in admiration. It was a moral victory for the nation.

Today, history is repeating itself. President Trump is trying his hardest, pulling all his strings, to put himself above the law and abuse the power of his office just as president Nixon wanted to do almost five decades ago. Nixon was brought down by the bipartisan effort just as now a bipartisan will is emerging to impeach president Trump for his audacity to fire the chief investigator,  Robert Muller, in the Russian probe for the American people. The investigation then as it is now for the government to remain transparent before the American public. Again, this will test the strength of the nation to remain a nation of rule of law facing the challenge of an unruly president that is devoid of ethics and sound judgment, devoid of knowledge of American history, devoid of respect for the values and principles on which this great nation was founded and the struggles the nation has gone through to materialize these ideas in the mindset and modus operandi of the society. Trump now wants to trample on these principles.

Chris Hedges describes the unspeakably degrading reality in the United States now in his latest book called “Unspeakable”

Chris Hedges: “The failure by large numbers of citizens to carry out mass acts of civil disobedience will only ensure we remain hostages to corporate power.”

Recorded in 2008

Published on Apr 22, 2011

This is a unique opportunity to hear the renowned Jewish historian, professor, and author, Ilan Pappe, an Israeli citizen speaks about his book “The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine” where he lays out the past, present, and offers suggestions for the future. Vancouver March 29, 08. ***** Ilan Pappe: The present dismal reality unfolding in the Middle East has clear historical roots and a journey into the past may help to illuminate what lies behind the destructive policies of Israel in both Palestine and Lebanon. Zionism arrived in Palestine in the late 19th as a colonialist movement motivated by national impulses. The colonization of Palestine fitted well the interests and policies of the British Empire on the eve of the First World War. With the backing of Britain, the colonization project expanded and became a solid presence on the land after the war and with the establishment of the British mandate in Palestine (which lasted between 1918 and 1948). While this consolidation took place, the indigenous society underwent, like other societies in the rest of the Arab world, a steady process of establishing a national identity. But with one difference. While the rest of the Arab world was shaping its political identity through the struggle against European colonialism, in Palestine nationalism meant asserting your collective identity against both an exploitative British colonialism and expansionist Zionism. Thus, the conflict with Zionism was an additional burden. The pro-Zionist policy of the British mandate there naturally strained the relationship between Britain and the local Palestinian society. This climaxed in a revolt in 1936 against both London and the expanding Zionist colonization project. At the end of November 1947, the UN offered to divide Palestine into two states almost equal in their territorial space. The Jews were only one-third of the population by 1947 and most of them had arrived in Palestine only a few years earlier. The categorical Palestinian refusal to go along with this deal, backed by the Arab League, allowed the Zionist leadership to plan carefully the next step. Between February 1947 and March 1948, a final plan for ethnic cleansing was prepared. The Zionist leadership defined 80 percent of Palestine (Israel today without the West Bank) as the space for the future state. This was an area in which one million Palestinians lived next to 600,000 Jews. The idea was to uproot as many Palestinians as possible. From March 1948 until the end of that year the plan was implemented despite the attempt by some Arab states to oppose it, which failed. Some 750,000 Palestinians were expelled, 531 villages were destroyed and 11 urban neighborhoods demolished. Half of Palestine’s population was uprooted and half of its villages destroyed. The state of Israel was established in over 80 percent of Palestine, turning Palestinian villages into Jewish settlements and recreation parks, but allowing a small number of Palestinian to remain citizens in it. The June 1967 war allowed Israel to take the remaining 20 percent of Palestine. This seizure defeated in a way the ethnic ideology of the Zionist movement. Israel encompassed 100 percent of Palestine, but the state incorporated a large number of Palestinians, the people who Zionists made such an effort to expel in 1948. The fact that Israel was let off easily in 1948, and not condemned for the ethnic cleansing it committed, encouraged it to ethnically cleanse a further 300,000 Palestinians from the West Bank and the Gaza strip. Read the full article here:

Nobel Prize winner and Economist Paul Krugman explains how the United States is becoming an oligarchy – the very system our founders revolted against.

“Wealth is so concentrated that a large segment of society is virtually unaware of its existence”

Says Thomas Piketty ( The author of the book: “Capital in the Twenty-First Century”, #1 New York Times Best Seller)