Norman Finkelstein Challenges Ben Shapiro to Debate Gaza
Finkelstein accused the conservative radio host of getting fundamental details wrong
Norman Finkelstein, the Gaza scholar, challenged Ben Shapiro to a debate on the Israel War after the conservative radio host made a video intended to debunk common myths about Israel’s relationship to the Palestinian enclave.
Finkelstein appeared on The SwissBox Conversation podcast and was shown Shapiro offering his take on the history of the Israel-Palestine relationship. (See Video Above at About the 38-minute mark.)
“The intellectual content of the Bazooka Bubble Gum comic was more weighty than what this imbecile just put together there,” - Finkelstein
Shapiro presented his case in a video and said in 1917, the British promised the Jews the entire area of Palestine, which was at the time Israel and Transjordan. He said in the 1920s, the Arabs “began pogroms – a mass murder of Jews in Jerusalem – in as a sign of anger against the British mandate in Palestine.”
He mentioned that in 1964, Arabs controlled the West Bank and Gaza and the Palestine Liberation Organization was founded and called for the destruction of Israel. He said in 1967, the Arab League announced the Three No’s: No peace, No recognition, and No negotiations.
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“With all of Israel’s enemies mobilized against it, Israel launched a preemptive strike against the Egyptian Air Force, inaugurating the 1967 Six-Day War,” Shapiro said.
He said the “miraculous” result of the war was that “Israel gained the Sinai Desert, the Golan Heights, the Gaza Strip, Judea and Samaria – now known as the West Bank, as well as the entirety of Jerusalem.”
Shapiro’s video covered a lot of ground in a short time.
He went on to list the times Israel sought peace, like in 1979, when he said Israel gave Egypt back the Sinai Peninsula in return for peace; in 1993, when Israel agreed to the Oslo Accords.
Finkelstein mocked the video as intellectually vacant.
“The intellectual content of the Bazooka Bubble Gum comic was more weighty than what this imbecile just put together there,” he said. “He’s so stupid…no really…for anybody who has an iota of knowledge… he says that the Arabs gave ‘Three No’s, no to negotiations, no to this, no to that’ and then came the 1967 War. Buddy, come on. You couldn’t, you couldn’t pass my class…when I used to teach the Israel-Arab conflict on rare occasions. The ’67 War comes, and then the argument is made – in Khartoum – in November of ’67, if my memory is right…in November, after the June ’67 war…the famous, the so-called famous Three No’s. He doesn’t even have the most basic, elementary chronology right.”
Finkelstein challenged Shapiro to debate any of his points.
“If Ben Shapiro is listening and he disagrees with me, there’s a very simple way to engage this,” Finkelstein said. “You choose any one point, any one point in that 1 minute 30 seconds and let’s discuss it.”
Shapiro’s Daily Wire did not immediately respond to an email from The Trends Journal.
Finkelstein, a Jewish American political scientist and peace activist, has been a top critic of Israel’s treatment of Palestinians for decades.
“The protocol right now in the news media is everything began on Oct. 7,” he said earlier. “But, in fact, Oct. 7 wasn’t the beginning, Oct. 7 was the climax. It was the climax of a people being immured in a concentration camp for 20 years.”
Finkelstein compared the Hamas attack on 7 October to the Nat Turner slave rebellion on 21 August 1831. Turner was joined by other slaves who rampaged through Southampton County in Virginia and brutally killed 55 people.
“2.2 million people were immured, were caged in a concentration camp for two decades, half of those people are children. The water, 97 percent of the water is poisonous in Gaza. About half of the population is classified as having severe food insecurity,” Finkelstein said, noting that the Hamas attack was an atrocity.
He compared the men who attacked with Hamas to the slaves in the rebellion.
“Young men [Hamas invaders] who were born in a concentration camp, with the rage inside them because of the chasm between who they were, who they aspire to be, and the reality that to their last breath they will be confined to a concentration camp,” he said.
He continued, “On top of being born into a concentration camp, periodically, periodically, that diabolical regime would announce, with no shame—with no shame—that satanic regime would announce it is going to mow the lawn in Gaza. Do you know how pathological – how totally sick it is to talk about mowing the lawn in a concentration camp?”
“On top of being born into a concentration camp, periodically, periodically, that diabolical regime would announce, with no shame—with no shame—that satanic regime would announce it is going to mow the lawn in Gaza. Do you know how pathological – how totally sick it is to talk about mowing the lawn in a concentration camp?”
This is exactly the point.
Anyone who doesn't grasp this is under severe and highly worrisome mind control.
We need a Roman solution for these Zionist bastards. It’s not even sufficient to call them Zionists anymore. They are Judeo-Nazis.