Comments | free_palestine: in light of the finklestein decision

hassibah in free_palestine

in light of the finklestein decision

Jun 12, 2007 15:36

i'd thought i'd post this doha debate

a couple more of note if you have time to kill:

the right of return for palestinians.
has the war on terror has become a war on islam?

norman finkelstein, video, war on terror, islam, right of return

Comments 9

niriafanorev June 12 2007, 20:44:13 UTC

Thank you for posting this.

ninboydean June 13 2007, 02:47:25 UTC

I love how the fellow on the far right claimed that the Jewish population in the U.S. is a monolith. That is the very definition of bigotry - and he is on the pro - Israeli side!

hassibah June 13 2007, 06:10:05 UTC

yeah actually it bothered me quite a bit that no one on either side corrected the question's implication in that jewish community=|the israel lobby. at least don't neglect the vast support israel gets from the christian right.

tyr_csard June 18 2007, 07:11:18 UTC

That was interesting viewing. I really never understood the concept of lobbies in the US, and how they come to be so influential. I've even heard about an 'Irish lobby' that doesn't have a single Irish member, just people with 'Mc' 'O' surnames.

As for the other 2 links at the bottom, for some reason they won't open for me.

hassibah June 18 2007, 10:34:53 UTC

well americans still consider themselves irish if they're like 17th generation or something don't they? i guess europeans don't really do that.
the other links were just two other episodes i thought were interesting. if you type "doha debates" into google video they should come up.

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Israel hubby82 June 22 2007, 18:24:15 UTC

The arabs have no right of return because Israel belongs to the Jews. Israel was stolen from the Jews by the Romans and now the Jews are now reclaiming their land. Long live Israel.

Re: Israel hassibah June 22 2007, 21:08:07 UTC

well i'm convinced.

arnoldsnarb June 26 2007, 04:33:37 UTC

I love the suggestion by the "con" side that the US public overwhelmingly supports Israel because of its thorough and rational understanding of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. I think one thing that the Iraq war unequivocally demonstrates is that, by and large, we don't base our perspective on the Middle East on a sober evaluation of the facts but on the innuendos and sound bites we receive from the mainstream press. If the American public has such a thorough grasp of the issues affecting the Middle East, why did the vast majority of us think that there were links between Saddam and Al-Qaeda?