[PAA-Discuss] Fwd: A few comments on recent Norman Finkelstein's 'Twist'

[robert graham]

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From: Gilad Atzmon <gilad at gilad.co.uk>
Date: Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 9:25 AM
Subject: A few comments on recent Norman Finkelstein's 'Twist'
To: gram.graham at sbcglobal.net


  1. A few comments on recent Norman Finkelstein interview with Frank
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*By Gilad Atzmon*

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Norman Finkelstein has recently bought himself a few enemies within the
Palestinian solidarity movement for openly and enthusiastically advocating
the Two States Solution. In the last interview it seems as if Finkelstein
defends Israel’s right to exist.

>From an academic point of view, Finkelstein has a point. He argues that in
order to win we have to operate within the parameters set by international
law. However, some points should be made here.

It is far from being clear who sets the parameters of international law. Is
it really the international community? Or is it just a few powerful Western
countries looking into their own particular expansionist interests.

   1. It is also far from being clear whether the international law is
   either ethically or sensible. Is it ethical to let the Jewish State
   celebrates its exceptional symptoms at the expense of the indigenous people
   of the land i.e. the Palestinians?  Is it sensible to maintain an,
   aggressive, expansionist, racist, and exclusivist, nuclear Jewish State in
   Middle East? Is it safe? Is it good for world peace?
   2. It is far from being transparently obvious to me why an American
   Jewish academic or any other Western solidarity activist should have a say
   about the way or manner in which Palestinian should live on their land. I,
   for instance, have never come across a Palestinian academic preaching
   Britain to divide its island by resurrecting the wall at the Scottish
   border. The meaning of it is simple, there is something fundamentally
   pretentious in the solidarity discourse and in resolution discourse in
   particular. We, for some reason, like to tell others what is right or wrong.
   3. Do we need to discuss resolution for the conflict? Israel is already
   a one State, it has a single electric grid, one sewage system, one
   international pre dial number. Yet Israel is dominated politically by an
   oppressive and racially exclusive Jewish political philosophy. This has to
   be changed and it will be changed by means of resistance with our
   solidarity or without it.

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2. Report: Significant Increase in Settlers' violence Against
Palestinians<http://click.icptrack.com/icp/relay.php?r=37671575&msgid=578851&act=XB2K&c=283016&destination=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.gilad.co.uk%2Fwritings%2Freport-significant-increase-in-settlers-violence-against-pal.html>(video)
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  3. Dying2Live -Solidarity with Khader
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Khader Adnan has been held under Israeli administrative detention without
charge or trial since December 17, 2011. He has been on hunger strike since
that day as well, becoming the longest hunger striking Palestinian prisoner
in history.

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