There is a fundamental principle. People have the right to defend their country from foreign occupiers, and people have the right to defend their country from invaders who are destroying their country. That to me is a very basic, elementary, and uncomplicated question.
Norman FinkelsteinThere are many issues, as everyone knows, in the United States on which public opinion leans very much to the left of elite policy, but that's because public opinion hasn't been turned into a political force.
Norman FinkelsteinIndeed, the field of Holocaust studies is replete with nonsense if not sheer fraud.
Norman Finkelstein