John Stillwell PA Archive/PA Images. All rights reserved.You can watch the Jewish American academic Norman Finkelstein on YouTube taking a question from the audience after one of his lectures in 2013.
The questioner asks why the Arab world failed to establish a Palestinian State when they had the opportunity to do so after the UN mandate to partition Palestine in 1947. Finkelstein’s lengthly and eloquent response makes four salient points.
First, realising immediately that the question had been prepared beforehand since it had nothing to do with the topic under discussion, and was consequently not asked in a spirit of genuine inquiry, Finkelstein urges the questioner to open his mind and listen and think for himself since he was not listening to an enemy.
