Daily Briefing—28th-29th July 2010

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Obama Again Confirms ‘Unbreakable, Special Bond’ With Israel

The U.S. and Israeli presidents publicly affirmed their ‘special, unbreakable bond’ and sought to justify Israel’s nuclear proliferation, Patty Culhane reported today at Al Jazeera English (2:41):

Daily Briefing—3rd June 2010

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Finkelstein: Israel Deliberately ‘Creates Gazan Humanitarian Crisis’ (Video)

Peter LaVelle’s “CrossTalk” at Russia Today has Professor Norman Finkelstein, Chris Guiness and Mitchell Barak on the panel (26:02):

Israel’s Public Relations Strategy: Be the Only Voice (Video)

Danny Schechter, former CNN and ABC producer, discusses how the State of Israel controls the narrative—by kidnapping all of the witness, while monopolizing the space in the media for quoted ‘officials’ (9:20):

Finkelstein on Flotilla Attack and the Gaza Blockade by ‘Lunatic State’ of Israel (Video)

Norman Finkelstein comments on the State of Israel’s unlawful blockade of Gaza, leading to its Navy’s aggressive invasion of a humanitarian aid convoy (5:23):

Daily Briefing—26th Apil 2010

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Norman Finkelstein: ‘This Time We Went Too Far’ (Video)

Professor Norman Finkelstein’s lecture at the University of Southern California, 11 March 2010, on the Gaza Massacre as discussed in his most recent book, This Time We Went Too Far: Truth and Consequences of the Gaza Massacre:

• The preceding internal politics of Israel, Gaza and the international community’s reaction;
• Israel breaking its ceasefire with Hamas while the world was distracted by the ‘coronation‘ of Barack Obama;
• Why ‘22 days of death and destruction‘, as Amnesty International called the massacre, wasn’t a ‘war’;
• The ‘crimes’ of Hamas rocket attacks v. those of Israel ‘terrorizing‘, according to the Goldstone Report, Gazans;
• Israel soldiers’ description of the massacre as ‘insane hunting season, like a video game, like a child killing ants with a magnifying glass’;
• Israel’s unlawful repeated targeting of civilians and the use of weaponized white phosphorus;
• The Western perpetuation of ‘Israel’s propaganda’ which is contrary to the reports of a diverse array of non-governmental organizations finding Israel’s ‘aim to punish, numiliate and terrorize the civilian population’ as ‘systematic and deliberate policy’, consistent with then-Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni bragging her soldiers invasion Gaza ‘demonstrated real hooliganism‘;
• The bipartisan Massacre Deniers of the United States in the White House and public universities, along with Elie Wiesel—because ‘every circus needs a clown’.

Part One (9:49):

Daily Briefing—23rd April 2010

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Daily Briefing—20th April 2010

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Daily Briefing—1st April 2010

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Finkelstein on the Gaza Massacre’s Impact on Israeli Geopolitics (Video)

Yesterday on Al Jazeera English’s “The Riz Khan Show”: Libertarian socialist Professor Norman Finkelstein discussed the ’08-’09 unlawful Gaza Massacre as a deliberate effort by Israel to “humiliate and terrorize” the Gazan population, its consequences for Israel on the domestic and international stage and the ‘two-state solution’ in light of his latest book on last year’s offensive, This Time We Went Too Far. He also describes why it is incorrect to call Israel’s offensive of over a year ago, a ‘war’, but a “premeditated slaughter, a massacre”. He also takes live callers with questions (22:26):

Finkelstein on AIPAC 2010 and His New Book (Video)

At Democracy Now!, Prof. Normal Finkelstein discusses the comments of Israeli President Binyamin Netanyahu and U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton at this week’s annual American Israel Public Affairs Committee conference in Washington, D.C. where Israel reaffirmed its defiance of international law and basic decency with the U.S. reaffirming its unconditional allegiance with the criminal Israeli government.

Prof. Finkelstein also discusses his new book on the Gaza Massacre of 2009-10, the expansion of illegal U.S. aid too Israel as a reward for slaughtering and occupying Palestinians, interprets objective analysis of international law regarding Israel’s crimes and American Radical: The Trials of Norman Finkelstein—the documentary on his life. For the record, I’m one of those who told Prof. Finkelstein the film is an extremely accurate description of him and recommend any moral agent to watch it.

American Radical: The Trials of Norman Finkelstein (Full Film)

A great biography on my former adviser at DePaul University, Professor Norman Finkelstein, in whom I take great pride and to whom I extend endless gratitude for the ways he has changed my life and continues to plant seeds to make me a better man as time moves on.

Part One (9:53):

U.S. to ‘Continue Standing By Israel’ War Crimes ‘as Loyal Friend’

The U.S. ambassador to the U.N. vowed to continue fighting the Goldstone Report which condemned Israel’s war crimes in the Gaza Massacre.