To Norman Finkelstein
Thanks, but No Thanks! Spare me your indignation.
Saturday, May 31, 2008
At the bottom of this page, you will find a new Youtube video of Finkelstein that I managed to view only for less than a minute. You will also find another link of all the articles about Finkelstein that are archived at this site
There used to be a time when I used to believe in Norman Finkelstein's honesty, decency and dedication to justice. No More. He is as much an emotional Zionist Jew as any. Yes, to his credit, he wrote a couple of books that were intended to counter the power of the Holocaust Industry and the book appropriately titled 'The Holocaust Industry' does an excellent job of how Jewish groups are bilking the Europeans of millions of dollars as repayments for the Ashkenazi Jews' suffering and dispossession resulting from ww2. But most people have the impression that Finkelstein is opposed to the hyped Jews' Holocaust narrative. On the contrary he insists on it, he is adamant that 'five to six million' Jews perished during ww2. He gets indignant and even furious if anyone attempts to question the number of the millions of Ashkenazi Jews who are presumed to have died. Finkelstein is willing to bring the number down a notch, from the firm number of 6,000,000 to 'between five to six million' died. But then again, he is not bringing down the number to 5 million, he just is not sure about the one million, who would fall, according to Finkelstein, in either category, as those who died or those who would fall in the category of 'Holocaust survivors'. The Jews seem to have proprietary rights to the words 'survivor' and 'holocaust'. Finkelstein has never come forward to give some documentation evidence as to how he arrived at the figure of 'between five to six million' Jews died.
In recent times, Finkelstein's voice has acquired a new tone or tune, it sounds angry, annoyed and even belligerent. Spare me your stage performance, Finkelstein. You are better off speaking in your usual manner of speaking. Remember those late night comedy performances of yours where you had your audience erupting in laughter. Yes, go back to your comedy-style of delivering your speeches. It works well. Your audience is entertained and they do seem to get the message. No one likes a grouchy and mean-spirited speaker.
What changed for me in regards to Finkelstein? Why have I acquired this distaste towards the gentleman who by all appearances seems to be a defender of the Palestinian rights? It has to do with the Original Sin, the sin whereby innocent Arabs were made to pay a heavy price for whatever took place between two Europoean Peoples, the Germans and the European Ashkenazi Jews. The Original Sin of considering the inhabitants of the land of Palestine as insignificant, so insignificant that Herzl hardly mentioned the people of the land of Palestine as he was mauevering around the Great Powers to help him steal Palestine, Herzl only spoke of the land of Palestine. Finkelstein is petrified to speak of the Original Sin. He avoids it like the plague and when confronted with it, he loses all sense of logic and his statements come out looking very convoluted. To his credit, he does bring to light that contrary to European Ashkenazi Jewry's preposterous claims that Palestine was an empty and abandoned land, just waiting for moneyed European Jews to arrive and make it bloom, ' a land without a people for a people without a land', he makes it crystal clear that it was a land inhabited by a people called 'Palestinians' (Palestinian Muslims, Palestinian Christians and Palestinian Jews). Besides, only an idiot would buy the European Ashkenazi Jewry's narrative about the vacant land of Palestine, specially considering that the word 'nomad' is associated with the Arabs. So the nomadic Arabs must have skipped over this land of Palestine, they just kept it vacant for an alien Europe's Jewry to come and take over and make it bloom!
What I find infuriating about Finkelstein are many:
- He has no problem blaming 'occupiers' but he does not include the Ashkenazi Jews who stole Palestine as 'occupiers', only the late arrivals. He has no problem with the Jews' state for the Jews only and he is on record stating he has no problem with the Jewish state. He would like the Palestinians to get the remnants, make a little fake little state of it and live happily thereafter, (side by side) with a very alien, vicious and venomous European enemy just next door.
- He goes to Germany and he attempts to shame the brand new generation of Germans about the 'Holocaust'. He tells them that he would 'never forget nor forgive'. I think that expression belongs to the Palestinians and not to the Finkelsteins. The war narrative that is told is that of the victors and International Jewry was part of the victors of ww2.
- Finkelstein is on record stating that he would not discuss as to why whatever happened to the Jews happened. The question that begs to be asked is 'why'. If he is going to spend hours blubbering about so much else, why not address what grievances the Germans might have had, perhaps grievances of life and death as far as the German people were concerned vis-à-vis the German Jewish Groups.
- Finkelstein feels the need to drag his parents wherever he makes his speeches and that is deliberate. He never forgets to say 'I buried my parents' during his speeches. Finkelstein is in his fifties. The human species has a life span of certain number of years, and most people in their fifties have buried their parents. So why does Finkelstein bring it up all the time? What purpose does it serve? Well, those parents were not any ordinary parents, those were 'Holocaust survivors', and thereby he is seeking sympathy as the son of 'Holocaust survivors'. In fact, Finkelstein's whole being on this planet revolves around being the son of 'Holocaust survivors'.
- I am indeed an unflinching supporter of the Palestinian cause and all other causes of a victimized and vanquished people by a European Supremacist groups who look down upon people of color as inferior. Therefore, it is imperative that I pay attention to the Finkelstein's and sort out who is genuine and who is not. I don't worry nor do I pay much attention to the likes of Alan Dershowitz. I seem to have zero interest in what Dershowitz has to say nor in what he might be writing about, none whatsoever. That is because his deception is so blatant that he has lost total credibility. Dershowitz is someone just foaming in the mouth, his statements are full of laughable deceits and arrogance. But Finkelstein is known as the 'Anti-Zionist' crusader and he knows that not to be true, but you would never hear him correcting anyone and stating his position clearly and succinctly that he is indeed a Zionist.