I missed this. From an interview with Hugh Hewitt last summer (h/t Andrew Sullivan). The Said connection–the two were close in the 80s:
In order for Israel to become part of the alliance against whatever we want to call it, religious barbarism, theocratic, possibly thermonuclear theocratic or nuclear theocratic aggression, it can’t, it’ll have to dispense with the occupation. It’s as simple as that.
It can be, you can think of it as a kind of European style, Western style country if you want, but it can’t govern other people against their will. It can’t continue to steal their land in the way that it does every day. And it’s unbelievably irresponsible of Israelis, knowing the position of the United States and its allies are in around the world, to continue to behave in this unconscionable way. And I’m afraid I know too much about the history of the conflict to think of Israel as just a tiny, little island surrounded by a sea of ravening wolves and so on. I mean, I know quite a lot about how that state was founded, and the amount of violence and dispossession that involved. And I’m a prisoner of that knowledge. I can’t un-know it.
Give it up a bit. How many clips and words of Hitchens fed the lies? Far more
Ok here is one that backs you up Phil. Damn it
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQxhyy9Wpb4
Is it that I have just heard Hitchens repeat inflammatory and untrue things about Iraq and Iran
Is that a view that Hitchens retained?
No human statement of condolence? Just aggrieved political purpose?
Hitchens – Iran vs Israel
Hitchens repeats bad bad Iran. This gal goes after Hitchens about his contradictions. He talks about Iran ignoring international regulations but says nothing about Israel ignoring and defying international resolutions. Such a double standard
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8UEVoSJmfs&NR=1&feature=endscreen
When Hitchens gets furious
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uchPPbJep8g&feature=related
Hitchens/ Ayn Rand
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wYR6e9Z6es&feature=related
Hitchens on the Israeli Flotilla Raid
“but what the people on that flotilla are saying is we are the advanced guard of the friends of Hamas, friends of jihad”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5GWpyFDTmk&feature=related
Hitchens on Obama’s Israel Policy: ‘Not Impressive’
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVCNH4EFYgY&feature=relmfu
” in other words if the Israeli’s are going to continue to build settlements in an identifiable just a single suburb of Jerusalem where most of the Arab population can produce documents proving that they’ve owned their homes since before the British mandate. If American policy can not get them to stop building in that one identifiable suburb of Jerusalem. Then there is no such thing as leverage or purchase
And if I had gone to all of the trouble to point out that this is such a terrible thing he should have said more than he (Obama) did in my view. That it is theft. As well as an obstacle to negotiations”
He goes on to say that Bush 41’s move to suspend Israel’s loan guarantees when they continued to expand illegal settlements was impressive. Carter wrote about this in “:Palestine Peace: Not Apartheid”
But still Hitchens went along with the invasion of Iraq and has repeated the “wipe Israel off the map” hooey and inflamed the situation with Iran.