By October 17, ten days later, the Israeli armed forces had bombed to death more than 5,000 Palestinians in Gaza, mostly women and children, at times dropping 2,000 pound bombs on apartment buildings, and had cut off all water, food and fuel to Gaza.
On that same 17th day of October 2023, Dr. Norman Finkelstein gave a talk at the University of Massachusetts labeled, "The Struggle for Justice in Palestine: Past, Present, and Future."
When asked if he condones or condemns the Oct. 7 Hamas attack, Finkelstein invoked the memory of the Nat Turner slave rebellion, the deadliest slave revolt in American history, where 55 white men, women and children were killed. Finkelstein prefaced this by expressing that the people of Gaza,
"have been trapped in a concentration camp for twenty years" as "the international community had abandoned them, and whatever tactic they attempted, including nonviolent resistance, had no impact on freeing them from that concentration camp."
With these conditions in mind, he went on to reference William Lloyd Garrison, editor of the abolitionist newspaper "The Liberator." Following Nat Turner's 1831 revolt, Garrison wrote a column in The Liberator about the uprising. Finkelstein said that while Garrison admitted that the rebellion was shocking and could not be justified, "never once, never once" did [Garrison] condemn the slave rebellion."
Talking about the Hamas attack Finkelstein said, "It was shocking, "yes." Can it be justified? "No." Should it be condemned? William Lloyd Garrison clearly said, "No." "Neither condemn nor condone it." Then Finkelstein added,
"I once asked Mom if she was sorry for the Germans in the cities being terror bombed by the U.S. Airforce and the R.A.F..
I wish it were otherwise, but to the last day of my parents life it was unthinkable that they would of had a kind word to say about Germans."
A Plea for Compassion:
Those Murdered Thousands of Precious Children Are Free From Suffering! - Think of Them As Angels! Pity The Insanity of Their Executioners
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