Letters to the Editor
cabdriver
Published Letters: 594 Editor's Choice: 8
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Read Finklestein himself...
[Read the article: Israel imposes a 10-year ban on American critic of Israeli policies]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]lest you be misled by the local Arbiter of Political Correctness for Jews around here trying to do your thinking for you, with posts like these:
"Actually Fink's thesis (soon to be deleted from Salon)
Is that the Shoah is overblown and largely a scam of greedy Jews. That's their families aren't really entitled to compensation even for the property that was taken FROM them and that the only reason Israel exists is because of greedy money grubbing Jews who constantly hold up this overblown "Holocaust" in everyone's faces.
You know kind of like the President of Iran does. The thing I don't understand is, if the Holocaust was no big thing, why do they worship Hitler so much. Kind of makes him sound like a poser and a flop, doesn't it?
-- Electro Robot"
(Electro Robot goes on and on about being censored by Salon- I can't pretend to have read everything he's posted in the moment, but I've seen zero evidence of that happening. Meanwhile, feel free to peruse his staggering archive of posts...and if that particular post is censored, presumably mine will have to be, too, since I'm quoting it in full.)
In actuality, one of the main tenets of Finklestein's conclusions- which are quite well-researched, and which were largely supported by the late Raul Hilberg, the pre-eminent scholar on the Nazi-led destruction of European Jewry- is that the survivors of the Nazi death camps and their families have in fact been deprived of a large fraction of the compensation intended for them by the so-called "Holocaust industry" that has siphoned off vast amounts of the payment for damages for their own projects and and personal profit.
Finklestein does NOT deny the fact of the extermination program against the Jews. His parents were in the camps. I've never read of him alleging that "the only reason Israel exists is because of greedy money grubbing Jews who constantly hold up this overblown "Holocaust" in everyone's faces."
As previously noted elsewhere, Finklestein supports a "two-state solution" whereby Palestinians recognize the right of the nation of Israel to exist.
The E-R comment insinuating that Finklestein "worships Hitler" is nothing more than nut-kicking libel, of course.
Norman Finklestein's eulogy for Raul Hilberg
http://www.normanfinkelstein.com/article.php?pg=3&ar=102
[click on my highlighted screen name "cabdriver" for link]
Norman Finkelstein's book, The Holocaust Industry: Reflections on the Exploitation of Jewish Suffering
http://www.normanfinkelstein.com/content.php?pg=3
Excerpts can be found at books.google.com
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re: the postings of Electro Robot
[Read the article: Israel imposes a 10-year ban on American critic of Israeli policies]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I was also one of those who commented in response to one of Electro Robot's posts in this thread.
I didn't realize that you have banned him from commenting on your posts. I assume that this is a recent decision.
Although I'm not sure I'd do the same myself, it's your column and I understand your reasoning. I'll comply with your request.
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Yo, stop the presses...
[Read the article: Obama and the Holocaust]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Barack Obama got mixed up about which Nazi death camp his father helped to liberate.
This in contrast to The Great Communicator of lore and legend, Ronald Reagan, who while serving as US President in 1983 informed then-Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir that he himself had helped to liberate Jews from a Nazi death camp (apparently in all sincerity, although Reagan's military duties in WW2 were performed exclusively stateside, in the making of patriotic movies.)
(There has recently been some dispute about the authenticity of this anecdote- it has been confirmed by the following source (quote)
"...the Reagan/Shamir story is pretty well documented. Shamir told the story to members of his cabinet when he returned to Israel from his visit to Washington. The story was all over the Israeli media at the time and Lou Cannon includes it in his highly regarded 1991 book on the Reagan presidency. Shamir -- or Reagan for that matter -- never refuted the contemporaneous accounts, which of course were widely circulated when both men were healthy and aware.
Jason Maoz
Senior Editor
The Jewish Press"
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2008/03/altering_the_truth.html
As far as I'm concerned, until someone manages to convincingly refute Maoz, he has the last word on the subject.
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Now I'm doing it...
[Read the article: Obama and the Holocaust]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Okay, okay...it wasn't his father, it was one of his great uncles.
my signal to take a break...good thing I'm not running for president.