There are many issues, as everyone knows, in the United States on which public opinion leans very much … - Norman Finkelstein

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The idea that the reader is important enough to me that I'd tailor my words to either please or offend them always seems amusingly alien to me.

Norman Finkelstein

There are many issues, as everyone knows, in the United States on which public opinion leans very much to the left of elite policy, but that's because public opinion hasn't been turned into a political force.

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

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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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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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