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Norman Finkelstein

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
915 total appearances

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Lex Fridman Podcast
#418 โ€“ Israel-Palestine Debate: Finkelstein, Destiny, M. Rabbani & Benny Morris

They demanded, as you know, because you've written about it, they demanded every square inch. As you know, they demanded the oil fields be dismantled. No, that's in the... The air fields be dismantled. No, not dismantled. They wanted the oil fields. And they wanted the settlements dismantled. They wanted the settlements dismantled. The settlements, the oil fields, and the air field.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#418 โ€“ Israel-Palestine Debate: Finkelstein, Destiny, M. Rabbani & Benny Morris

They demanded all three back. You can't have... What do you mean back? The air fields weren't there. Okay, that's incorrect. You're incorrect. They built an airfield. The Israelis built an airfield in the occupied Sinai. And they wanted it back. They didn't want it back. It wasn't theirs. They wanted the territory in which Israel had built back.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#418 โ€“ Israel-Palestine Debate: Finkelstein, Destiny, M. Rabbani & Benny Morris

They demanded all three back. You can't have... What do you mean back? The air fields weren't there. Okay, that's incorrect. You're incorrect. They built an airfield. The Israelis built an airfield in the occupied Sinai. And they wanted it back. They didn't want it back. It wasn't theirs. They wanted the territory in which Israel had built back.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#418 โ€“ Israel-Palestine Debate: Finkelstein, Destiny, M. Rabbani & Benny Morris

They demanded all three back. You can't have... What do you mean back? The air fields weren't there. Okay, that's incorrect. You're incorrect. They built an airfield. The Israelis built an airfield in the occupied Sinai. And they wanted it back. They didn't want it back. It wasn't theirs. They wanted the territory in which Israel had built back.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#418 โ€“ Israel-Palestine Debate: Finkelstein, Destiny, M. Rabbani & Benny Morris

The oil fields, the airfields, the settlements have to be dismantled. Yes. Begin said, I don't want to be the first prime minister to dismantle a settlement. But he did. Why? Because of the law. No. No. It's because of. The law had nothing to do with anything.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#418 โ€“ Israel-Palestine Debate: Finkelstein, Destiny, M. Rabbani & Benny Morris

The oil fields, the airfields, the settlements have to be dismantled. Yes. Begin said, I don't want to be the first prime minister to dismantle a settlement. But he did. Why? Because of the law. No. No. It's because of. The law had nothing to do with anything.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#418 โ€“ Israel-Palestine Debate: Finkelstein, Destiny, M. Rabbani & Benny Morris

The oil fields, the airfields, the settlements have to be dismantled. Yes. Begin said, I don't want to be the first prime minister to dismantle a settlement. But he did. Why? Because of the law. No. No. It's because of. The law had nothing to do with anything.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#418 โ€“ Israel-Palestine Debate: Finkelstein, Destiny, M. Rabbani & Benny Morris

The law had nothing to do with anything. You're not listening. I've read the negotiations. There are two foreign relations of U.S. volumes on it. Nobody cares about the law. Forget the Palestinians. They weren't there. Allow me to finish. The Palestinians kept saying, we want what Egypt got. We want what Egypt got. Egypt got everything back. But nothing to do with the law. Okay.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#418 โ€“ Israel-Palestine Debate: Finkelstein, Destiny, M. Rabbani & Benny Morris

The law had nothing to do with anything. You're not listening. I've read the negotiations. There are two foreign relations of U.S. volumes on it. Nobody cares about the law. Forget the Palestinians. They weren't there. Allow me to finish. The Palestinians kept saying, we want what Egypt got. We want what Egypt got. Egypt got everything back. But nothing to do with the law. Okay.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#418 โ€“ Israel-Palestine Debate: Finkelstein, Destiny, M. Rabbani & Benny Morris

The law had nothing to do with anything. You're not listening. I've read the negotiations. There are two foreign relations of U.S. volumes on it. Nobody cares about the law. Forget the Palestinians. They weren't there. Allow me to finish. The Palestinians kept saying, we want what Egypt got. We want what Egypt got. Egypt got everything back. But nothing to do with the law. Okay.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#418 โ€“ Israel-Palestine Debate: Finkelstein, Destiny, M. Rabbani & Benny Morris

And number two, I'm not saying it's the whole picture, but as Foreign Minister Moishe Dayan said at the time, he said, if a car has four wheels... and you remove one wheel, the car can't move. And for them, removing Egypt from the Arab front would then remove any Arab military threat to Israel. No, the first part did. And that's what the Palestinians kept saying.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#418 โ€“ Israel-Palestine Debate: Finkelstein, Destiny, M. Rabbani & Benny Morris

And number two, I'm not saying it's the whole picture, but as Foreign Minister Moishe Dayan said at the time, he said, if a car has four wheels... and you remove one wheel, the car can't move. And for them, removing Egypt from the Arab front would then remove any Arab military threat to Israel. No, the first part did. And that's what the Palestinians kept saying.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#418 โ€“ Israel-Palestine Debate: Finkelstein, Destiny, M. Rabbani & Benny Morris

And number two, I'm not saying it's the whole picture, but as Foreign Minister Moishe Dayan said at the time, he said, if a car has four wheels... and you remove one wheel, the car can't move. And for them, removing Egypt from the Arab front would then remove any Arab military threat to Israel. No, the first part did. And that's what the Palestinians kept saying.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#418 โ€“ Israel-Palestine Debate: Finkelstein, Destiny, M. Rabbani & Benny Morris

We want what Egypt got from the settlement.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#418 โ€“ Israel-Palestine Debate: Finkelstein, Destiny, M. Rabbani & Benny Morris

We want what Egypt got from the settlement.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#418 โ€“ Israel-Palestine Debate: Finkelstein, Destiny, M. Rabbani & Benny Morris

We want what Egypt got from the settlement.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#418 โ€“ Israel-Palestine Debate: Finkelstein, Destiny, M. Rabbani & Benny Morris

And by the way, one last thing, one last, on a personal note. The quote about Sharm el-Sheikh without peace, okay. That's the only thing you ever cited from a book of mine. I cited from your book? Yes. I was absolutely shocked at your betrayal of your people. That was pure treason. I apologize for that. I apologize. I accept.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#418 โ€“ Israel-Palestine Debate: Finkelstein, Destiny, M. Rabbani & Benny Morris

And by the way, one last thing, one last, on a personal note. The quote about Sharm el-Sheikh without peace, okay. That's the only thing you ever cited from a book of mine. I cited from your book? Yes. I was absolutely shocked at your betrayal of your people. That was pure treason. I apologize for that. I apologize. I accept.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#418 โ€“ Israel-Palestine Debate: Finkelstein, Destiny, M. Rabbani & Benny Morris

And by the way, one last thing, one last, on a personal note. The quote about Sharm el-Sheikh without peace, okay. That's the only thing you ever cited from a book of mine. I cited from your book? Yes. I was absolutely shocked at your betrayal of your people. That was pure treason. I apologize for that. I apologize. I accept.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#418 โ€“ Israel-Palestine Debate: Finkelstein, Destiny, M. Rabbani & Benny Morris

Yes, I think so.