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Talking heads on television and the Internet all seem to have a wealth of opinions about the recent Hamas attacks and Israeli reprisals, yet actual understanding of the detailed history of Gaza is often wanting. Professor Norman Finkelstein breaks down some of the key background that’s essential to understanding what led Israel and the Palestinians into this conflict.
Guest host Craig Jardula and Americans’ Comedian Kurt Metzger discuss with Professor Finkelstein whether it’s accurate to describe Gaza as an “open air prison.”
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Why is it only Jews that are allowed to talk for Palestine in western media? Finkelstein, Chomsky, Sachs, Blumenthal they are gatekeeping. Never say the whole truth.
At the same time you have to wonder where are all of the saner heads amongst the Palestinians? If they wanted to speak out they could do so daily, have had years to do so,, but strangely they’re nowhere to be found… even on Rumble.
Hasbara is with us. A one minute DDG finds this, which even includes discussion of how the Palestinians have been “nowhere to be found: https://www.wrmea.org/waging-peace/palestinians-discuss-the-ongoing-nakba.html
They are on PressTV and RT all the time.
https://www.presstv.ir/Tags/30423
Also there are many anti Zionists in America who are not Jewish. Why they don’t let people like Ayo H. Kimathi or pastor Rick Wiles speak in msm?
That’s what controlling the media accomplishes – both sides of every story.
In 1799, Napoleon Bonaparte besieged the town of Acre in Ottoman-controlled Palestine, as part of a campaign to defeat the Ottomans and establish a French presence in the region. In search of allies, he offered a homeland to Jewish people, the world over, in Palestine under French protection. He was defeated by the Ottomans. In 1840, the British revived the plan, as a means of thwarting the rising power of Mohamad Ali, Egyptian Governor. The British Foreign Secretary wrote to his ambassador in Constantinople, urging him to convince the Sultan to open up Palestine to Jewish immigration. At that time, no… Read more »
Balfour Declaration?
You conveniently missed the most important part, that of the campaign of organised Jewish Terrorism from 1944 to 1948, on the people of Palestine, to genocide them from their homeland, where Terrorist groups like Haganah (IDF) and the Stern Gang (Lehi), carried out terrorist atrocities against the people of Palestine and the Terrorist Stern Gang (Lehi) published a weekly propaganda newspaper called ‘Hamaas’ nonetheless!
Did you know that Theodor Herzl (The father of political Zionism) wrote a book called ‘The Jewish state’ in 1896, were he pondered ‘Is Palestine or Argentina preferable?