The histrionics directed at Dr. Finkelstein have always been an attempt at misdirection. Otherwise, they would actually address the issues he raises.

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First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win. ~ M.K. Gandhi

This is one reason I support the existence of Israel (but not the supremacist political ideology of Zionism): it forces them to stand shoulder to shoulder, as a chain, and account for themselves and each other as adults. Essentially, it forces them to grow up.

The problems is the perpetually stunted diaspora Jewish Zionists who, as always, want it all. They want Israel, but they don’t want to live there; they want America to wage wars against Israel’s enemies, but they don’t want to do the fighting themselves; they want the American taxpayer to underwrite Israel to the tune of billions, but they don’t want to part with their own fortunes to support it.

Jewish Zionists should either emigrate to Israel, or cease being Zionists. Their childish duel-identity must come to an end. If this was done, American underwriting, enabling and goading of Israel towards its own (murderously) immature behavior would also cease. And those Jews that stayed would have to start taking accountability for ALL of their own fellow Americans instead of existing in this stunted kind of no man's land of conflicted and divided loyalties.

"O Let the Mainstream Media Shine Its Everlasting Light on Me!"

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBuua8z_jFc

Larry Cohler Esses is the only reporter for that paper who could've done that interview justice.

That's probably what attracts me, Phil. It seems from very opposite camps our mothers taught us similar lessons. Must have drawn similar conclusions from our past???

I know, I shouldn't compare them, but then.

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What puzzles me most, is that he is tainted via his reception on the right up to the point of being called a Neo-Nazi. Kept me from touching his books.

But at the same time the main propaganda assault is against the left as being the "real" successor of the Nazis, and I think here Norman is "the" central figure.

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That said: From a German point of view Zionism is very, very understandable. It didn't start with the Nazis. Both in Austria and here there were other parties that played with antisemitism, long before the Nazis. … There doesn't seem to be much awareness over in the US about these facts.

I suspect this is a mistake that is repeated over and over again.

Anyway the title of his thesis is:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Finkelstein#Bibliography

From the Jewish Question to the Jewish State: An Essay on the Theory of Zionism

He returns to the subject of his thesis in: "Image and Reality", as the title suggests (I haven't read it yet). In his thesis he studies the "theory" of Zionism only.

Admittedly I wonder about the "mistake" concerning his thesis in the Israeli database (follow link in bibliography). The obvious mistake would have made it 123 pages instead of 213.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Finkelstein#Bibliography

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Norman_Finkelstein#thesis_-_Time_Immorial

The verse from 'Midnight Special' is usually rendered as "ever-loving" light … though Wikipedia cites an alternate reading of "ever-living" light.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midnight_Special_%28song%29