Norman Finkelstein
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first heard Mar 2024
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On the question of the responsibility of the Palestinian Arabs for the Nazi Holocaust, direct or indirect, I consider that an absurd claim. As Gromyko said, and I quoted him, the entire Western world turned its back on the Jews to somehow focus on the Palestinians strikes me as completely ridiculous. Number two, as Muin said,
There's a perfectly understandable reason why Palestinian Arabs wouldn't want Jews, because in their minds, and not irrationally, these Jews intended to create a Jewish state, which would quite likely have resulted in their expulsion. I'm a very generous person. I've actually taken in a homeless person for two and a half years.
But if I knew in advance that that homeless person was going to try to turn me out of my apartment, I would think 10,000 times before I took him in. Okay? As far as the actual complicity of the Palestinian Arabs... If you look at Raoul Hilberg's three-volume classic work, The Destruction of the European Jury, he has in those thousand-plus pages one sentence on the role of the Mufti of Jerusalem.
And that, I think, is probably an overstatement, but we'll leave it aside. The only two points I would make aside from the Holocaust point is, number one, I do think the transfer discussion is useful because it indicates that there was a rational reason behind the Arab resistance to Jewish or Zionist immigration to Palestine, the fear of territorial displacement and dispossession.
And number two, there are two issues. One is the history. And the second is being responsible for your words. Now, some people accuse me of speaking very slowly, and they're advised on YouTube to turn up the speed twice to three times whenever I'm on. One of the reasons I speak slowly is because I attach value to every word I say.
And it is discomforting, disorienting, where you have a person who's produced a voluminous corpus, rich in insights and rich in archival sources. who seems to disown each and every word that you pluck from that corpus by claiming that it's either out of context or it's cherry picking. Words count. And I agree with Lex. Everybody has the right to rescind what they've said in the past.
But what you cannot claim is that you didn't say what you said.
Maybe you should give his name.
Of course they said it. You know what the statement said on the basis of a shared ideology. Why do you say no? Wait, the Lehi people were Nazis. Is that what you're saying?
Some of them supported Stalin, incidentally. Did he say that the basis of the pact was their agreement on ideology? There wasn't any pact. They suggested. They proposed an agreement.
I think we can agree. Not every anti-Semite is a Hitlerite. He literally worked with the Nazis to recruit people. He wasn't just a guy posting... And he was an absolutely revolting, disgusting human being. There's something I have to hear.
I don't even understand of all the crimes you want to ascribe to the Palestinian people, trying to blame them directly, indirectly, indirectly or indirectly three times the move for the Nazi Holocaust is completely lunatic.
You've not read him. I've read him.
Believe me, I'm a lot more literate than you, Mr. Borelli. the guy that wrote the stuff. You read what Wikipedia said.
Why is, why is, why is relevant is bringing up the Mufti of Jerusalem and trying to blame the Holocaust.
The Leahy was 300 people. And he had as much to do with the Nazi Holocaust as I did. No, he recruited people for the SS. How can you get away from that? No, he recruited people. people for their assists. He recruited soldiers in the Balkans, mostly Kosovars, which was disgusting. I have no doubt about that.
But he had one... He also wrote letters to foreign ministers saying, don't let the Jews out. I knew Rahul Hill.
He wasn't even minor.
They were helping to close the only safe haven for Jews. Oh, really? The United States wasn't a potential safe haven. The only one was Palestine. The United States had no room No, it did have room. From the Atlantic to the Pacific for Jews.
They are blamed, but nobody blames them for the Holocaust. Well, indirectly. No, I've never heard it said that Franklin Delano Roosevelt was indirectly responsible for the Holocaust. I never heard that. Now, maybe it's in Israeli literature because the Israelis have gone mad. Yes, your prime minister said the whole idea of the gas chambers came from the Mufti of Jerusalem. That's nonsense.
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