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Norman Finkelstein: Everything you know about Israel is wrong
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In a recent interview with PoliticsJOE, Norman Finkelstein broke down misconceptions of Israeli society understood in the West - particularly around the popularity of the war on Palestinians and Benjamin Netanyahu.
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prime minister Netanyahu is the longest
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lasting prime minister in Israeli
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history it used to be benorian David
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benorian the first Prime Minister but
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that's he's been put in the shade
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benorian by uh netan if you read the
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liberal commentators or commentators in
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the west there every few months they're
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predicting the end of netanyahu's rule
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it doesn't happen because
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Netanyahu he is a
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reflection and a
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representation of Israeli
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Society he's an
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obnoxious
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narcissistic Jewish
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supremacist who thinks that only Jews
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count in God's Grand Design everybody
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else the goyam as they're called they
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have no place in God's Gra design except
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where Israel decides to situate or place
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them so the first fact is we have to
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bear in mind he remains even now very
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popular in Israel the claim is his
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standing up to Iran has increased his
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popularity but there a general rule
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number
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two Israel is a democracy
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were it
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true that his PO his policies were
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unpopular another candidate would
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emerge that's the nature of a
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democracy have you
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heard of another
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candidate who has emerged by
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dissociating himself or
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denouncing
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uh netanyahu's policies the answer is no
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number three it's not just the Israeli
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state if you look at the Israel Society
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I'm not talking about the uh
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people at the Helm of the state the
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Israeli Society
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overwhelmingly overwhelmingly
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supports the genocidal war in Gaza it's
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over it's about 90
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5% of the Jewish Israelis
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95 I have the statistics right here even
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I was I have to say I was a little
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astonished when I read the latest
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numbers
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uh let's
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see about 60% of Israeli Jews oppose any
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humanitarian Aid to Gaza but that's the
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question of the a I'm talking about the
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War uh let's
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see give me one half
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second here in PO on the issue of the
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war on this issue of the war only
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one
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8% that was in October
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7% that was in
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December and
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3.2% that's
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January of Jewish Israelis believed the
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IDF was using too much Firepower in Gaza
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do you hear those
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percentages as of
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January when already it's reaching the
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icj the international court of justice I
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charges of
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genocide only
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3.2% of Jewish Israelis believe the
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Israeli Defense Forces was using too
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much Firepower in Gaza so when people
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want to lay the blame for the insanity
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on uh
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Netanyahu that is I don't say
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gleefully I'm simply reporting it
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objectively
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that is a
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misrepresentation of the facts if
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there's no political opposition to be
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seen against
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Netanyahu or substantive no leader to
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emerge it's
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because the whole population agrees with
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what Netanyahu is
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doing if he were simply doing it as
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Western commentators like to say because
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the longer the war goes on the Le the
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the more time it will take for
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corruption charges to be lodged against
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him and so he wants to stay out of jail
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if any of that were
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true the other Israeli generals and
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Senior
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officials would simply mount a
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campaign on those grounds that he's just
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trying to protect himself they're not
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saying
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that because they all agree with his
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policies we have to be honest about that
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they all agree with his policies that's
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the problem it's a lunatic State and a
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Lunatic Society and we should be as free
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about saying that as we would say about
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Nazi Germany beginning in around 1943
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now Nazi Germany you could say there was
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extenuating
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circumstances what do I mean by that it
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was a totalitarian state it did control
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all the media and by
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1943 the Germans are clearly beginning
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to lose the war and in places like
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Stalingrad uh
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Leningrad thousands if not more
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thousands of German soldiers are
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freezing to death in the Snows the
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winter the Russian
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winter and also on the domestic front
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there is new priv private privations
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deprivations you know the um
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um uh
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restrictions uh the German government
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because it's losing the war are putting
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on consumption and things like that okay
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and totalitarian German media Nazi media
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are saying it's all the fault of the
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judeo BOS conspiracy it's the judeo
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bolic conspiracy and they're hearing it
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over and over and over again so you can
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understand I'm not excusing it I'm just
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saying factually you can understand that
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at some point they've gone crazy and
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they hate the Jews and the Jews are
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causing our soldiers to die in the
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Eastern front and blah blah blah blah
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blah this is not a totalitarian state
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Israel probably has the highest usage of
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the web per capita per capita of any
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country in the world now you could say
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it's true the Israeli media are painting
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a very false picture of what's going on
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in Gaza but you know you're a young man
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you know that most young people don't
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get their information from mainstream
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media anymore they get it from the web
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Israelis have are perfectly aware of
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what's going on
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