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Selling out his people is how he makes his living. Whiny victim

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Yep. Pretty despicable.

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I don't know who Norman Finkelstein is (could care less). But, rest assured I know his type. Many of his sickening ilk deny their Judaic connection, while he uses it as a shield. I am not one those bad Jews, but a good Jew, so leave me alone. Finkelstein is a cowardly slime, turning on his brothers and sisters so he can live undisturbed (like George Soros). He is a Marxist/socialist practicing what's good for the world is good for me. He sides with the fanatical Islamist terrorists, the "Palestinians", who are so destructive and despicable that they are not welcome anywhere in the Arab countries. There are no Palestinian victims as the majority support their barbaric Hamas rulers. They train their children from the youngest ages to hate and kill Jews. What kind of people are they? The super majority approve of the slaughter and torture of Jews on Oct. 7. If the Israeli defense forces accidently killed a few thousand, they asked for it by their support of Hamas and radical Islam. When the barbarians come for the American Jews (and they likely will), they will look for the likes of Finkelstein first as they know he is a sniveling coward.

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I don't wish for anyone's death except monsters like Sinwar, that is justice. But everything else. Yes, I agree.

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Thanks fer puttin' the "FINK" back in Finkelstein. Yup, he Mate, Blumenthal, an' Greenwald sadly are what we call "a shame to the race." Arguably just as harmful as George Tsoros (I call him Tsuris, means "trouble" in yiddish lol).

So here's part'a the rub... those of us who know our people cry foul but SO MANY others in the USA...have never met a joo... Bizarre as it seems to us New Yawkers an' urbanites--I kin testify ta that whar we moved to--about 75 minutes from a grocey that even has a tiny jooish shelf with matzoh & gefilte fish (I make my own of both but still...). So those that don't know think OH, it takes one ta know one an' they assume these big "machers" with their big voices know us all--speak fer us all... Nope, they're doin' a good chob of gettin' us all KILLED. (oy) Even Naomi Wolf (whom I like dearly as a writer an' truth teller--an' who should not be lumped in with the haters--gits it wrong too!--she made a speech at Oxford that she cannot condone Israel as a nation that thinks they are "better" than another nation an' "opresses them." This was before 10/7 but she has not come out "for" Israel so I assume she'd not wish to see Israel destroyed but feels they ain't legit b/c "chosen" an' "bad behavior."

Of course Joos/Israelis don't treat Arabs as lesser in all my long experience but they kinda don't wanna be killed so they have to "handle enemies" that want 'em dead... differently.

I also wanna call out well-meanin' people (those I think who have good intentions) that are either half jooish but did not grow up with the faith--or fully genetically jooish an' didn't not grow up with it--there's a lot've 'em. So they have never heard a jooish prayer, never celebrated a jooish holiday, an' pontificate that Israel is an "apartheid" nation of occupiers and are committing genocide. Joos that grew up knowin' "who we are" know that if those surroundin' Israel didn't wanna destroy it an' da chews inside it (every last one even those hidin' behind a tree!) KNOW there's no wish to kill ANYONE... not Muslims, not Arabs. Planes of joos (even Ultra Orthodox ones godferbid) are not invadin' Stockholm, London, or Paris with rogue IDF soldiers hell-bend on takin' out "Palestinians" or Muslims... whatever. Sigh.

Two more leetle comments...

1. Joos are not "getting back" at what the Nazis did to 'em durin' WWII but fightin' back Hamas, Hezbolla, etc... WHAT? That's like the worst (wurst!) anti-jooish slur evah. It's not about revenge at all. It's about makin' yer own "camp" safe from tigers as it's a jungle out there...

2. OMG John Brown? He wants to "honor" a psychopath! John Brown was HAMAS (yes, freein' the slaves was a good thing--goin' on a murderous rampage is an'nuther) I think mebbe dat FINK is really a RAT FINK!

God help us all--an' THANKS THANKS as alwayz Karen!

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Sad about Naomi Wolf. You're right that so many people are just plain ignorant. But then they shouldn't try to act like they know what they're talking about. These “influencers” don't seem to realize the responsibility they have when hundreds of thousands perhaps even millions of people believe their every word.😡

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That may be true, Karen, but maybe they do realize it.

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I do wonder.... or are in denial... ya'd think self-preservation'd kick in... or mebbe her "base" subscribers have room in their attics?

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yup, an' again--they say "as a joo"... even worse, ya know Vera Sharav (VERA!) came out against Israel an' shouted "genocide" an' "never again is now"... Lemme say the obvious, just cuz ya survived the holocaust doesn't mean yer an expert on Israel... she's like 90 years old an' folks idolize her (lol no idol worship allowed!)--I heard her in person--she's (imho) a good soul but so WRONG an' she'll steer so many ta think if they do like her they're in the right (Celia Farber...also a good soul but imho wrong on this topic) nearly stood up an' CHEERED that Vera called Israel a genocidal terrorist state... (sigh or as Charlie Brown said, "Good Grief!")

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Oy

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Yes, I stopped following Naomi sometime ago.

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her torah readin's are lovely--for them alone it's worth at least lookin' (they are free) I just feel bad she's workin' to... may I say it? save her "base".... If she came out "for" Israel survivin' yup, she'd lose income--so much as I like her, she's repeatin' the hater's dialectic...

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ps I full stop checkin' out the ones that have interrupted their broadcasts to televise full-time hate 24/7 (too many ta list!) but I still peek at some who have good content ONLY when it's not about Israel... it's a bit like pickin' out the green M&Ms! (not that I'd dare eat 'em now but as a kid I did just so)

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Both are grifters, and have a retinue of other token Jews, whose sole function for the Free Palestine cult is to Jew-wash their anti-Jewish racism.

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I can’t bear looking at either one of those self hating bs artists. Mate has a son like Soros has a son.

I don’t know about the other one whose name I can’t speak.

May they all be erased.

They’re the worst.

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Agree. I had to deal with them. Now I'm done.

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I appreciate you calling them exactly what they are. I have watched and listened to Mate speak. What a fraud-an “expert“ in trauma.

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Ugh. I can't bear listening to him.

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I guess you have to write this but I couldn’t finish reading it. It made me sick. To think that there are Jews like this.

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It wasn't easy to write it and im glad it's done with. I don't ever want to have to deal with these traitors again.

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Thank you for writing this, Karen. After Mate and others I never had the courage to have a look at FinkelFrankenstein nor Chomsky or other former "honorable" "anti-zionist" aka Anti Semitic jews because I'll end up being too 🤮 and demoralized in mankind.

At least your and other's articles make me feel less lonely in this olam meshuga. Thank you so much 🙏🏽

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just read this an' thought it brilliant--new "Future of Jewish" article 'bout the stories we tell--"our" narratives --- shared the followin' written my a Muslim journalist -- it's a way ta 'splain WHY the story of Israel invalidates the story of Islam an' so destroyin' the nation AND those that tell that story seems ta be their m.o. (curse word alert, i'm'a just quotin' verbatim) :

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Alan Mairson, former editor of “National Geographic” magazine, outlined a similar problem quite brilliantly in his recent essay: “We have our story and we’re sticking to it.” Here he broke down the logical dissonance between the narrative of Islam and establishment of the State of Israel. In his words:

“Why would 900,000 Jews — in Iraq, Yemen, Syria, Egypt, and elsewhere — be in ‘grave danger’ just two days after Israel declared its independence in 1948 Because this was the moment when the Islamic world woke up and realized something essential: If the return of the Jews to their ancestral homeland is left unchallenged, then we’re effectively admitting that the Story we Muslims are telling — about ourselves and about human history — is fatally flawed. A lie.

“Zionism means Islamic history is running in reverse. We have withdrawn from land we once controlled, which is not how our Story is supposed to go. We should be expanding, not contracting. A sovereign Jewish state on land that was once part of the Islamic caliphate is a defeat. A major narrative f*ck-up.”

“Which leaves us two options: revise our Story to make room for the state of Israel (and for, say, Spanish and Portuguese control of the Iberian peninsula); or stick to our existing Story and eliminate both Israel and, perhaps, the people who tell the Story that brought the ‘Zionist entity’ back to life.”

“Islamist anti-Zionism isn’t rooted in anti-colonialism, Palestinian nationalism, opposition to ‘apartheid,’ or some formless, inexplicable, or baseless hatred. It’s rooted in a 1,300-year-old Islamic narrative that can’t survive intact if Israel does.”

“That’s why Zionism is an existential threat to the Muslim world — not physically, but narratively. The Story that gives meaning to more than a billion Muslims is deeply undermined as long as a sovereign Jewish state continues to exist on land that once was part of the Islamic caliphate.”

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Wow. so admittin' they screwed up an' LOST land means admittin' defeat which is not on the menu. This quote kinda blew my mind....

We are the stories we tell! (an' yup, Harari is correct on that but I counter his sin-a-cism with far more optimism!)-- seems a lotta lotta people got told a story that does not allow fer failure-- da joos (by contrast) are all about pickin' yerself up AFTER failure, after messin' up--we were told that each time we muck it up G_d fergives us--never abandoned his covenant ta have us TRY... try ta be good, be his test subjects on a loooong journey---but even jooish humor is self-deprecatin'--there are more yiddish words for people who mess up than (likely) in any other language--with nooance / subtlety as ta HOW They muck it up--schlemiels, schlemazzles, schmendrakes an so on... Muslims (afaik) so not make fun of themselfs an' do not ALLOW themselfs ta tell the story of royally screwin' up--so the story of Israel of COURSE messes 'em up--they cannot tell it! It's like when a teevee robot would self destruct b/c something "does not compute" an' we got satisfaction watchin' it steam an' short circuit an' STOP... Islam doesn't wanna short circuit! I think that's it!

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That's brilliant.

It's clear that an argument can be made, however horrific, as to why Arabs hate Jews, but as to the rest of the world, it's more sinister and harder to grasp. I get exhausted pointing out obvious facts to people, to no avail. They are determined to hate Jews, when Jews have had no influence on their lives at all, most likely, they've never even met one. It's crazy because there is no way to reason with these people.

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an' there is indeed be more to it on the Arab/Muslim side--but this really caught me as to admit that a singular event blows one's entire religion ta smithereens-- is quite the argument! never would've occurred to me but it's a simple & elegant (if not complete) one ;-) -- glad ya liked it too!

As fer the non-Arabs in the world don't I know it! (also unable ta 'splain it).... an' what gits me is all the MANY! folks that say stuff--these haters--insist that Islam is a religion of PEACE an' Judaism is a religion of WAR & hate... I hear this so often an' even from folks that are proud Christians (or mebbe I should'a said "Christians" as many now disavow any / all "tainted" jooish input in their faith... I'm seein' this LOTs which is odd... many even say it's a jooish conspiracy/lie that Jesus ever was a chew!) Sigh. Folks say the strangest things... (a riff on Art Linkletter lol)

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Indeed brilliant you just brightened up my day 😊

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Very well said, Karen.

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Thanks for sharing the information- more important than Finklestein and Mate is the importance of recognizing the question for happiness or satisfaction- similar to Victor Frankel. Sad the Gazans don’t get it.

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True. I really appreciated that insight.

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Karen, thank you for writing all you do!

As a 70 year old Judeo Christian woman, I have always clung to the Abrahamic promises that his offspring will bless the world. I’m seeing it unfold in my generation, but the world is not ready to receive the blessing, preferring instead to hate.

Our daughter married a Jewish man from a lovely Jewish family. I was shocked when I met them to discover two things: one, they didn’t seem to be really interested in the Old Testament scriptures like I am (plus they didn’t recognize my huge tabletop Tabernacle reproduction that was a gift to my family) and two, they are sooo liberal!

That was a surprise then but I see it clearly now. US Jews have been so propaganized.

Hubby purchased an Israeli flag for our home, however, even living in a small conservative Southern town, I’m afraid to fly that flag due to all the anti Semitism EVERYWHERE!

Please keep writing. You are a blessing!

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I've heard a number of my secular Jewish friends say they are feeling much closer to Judaeism now. Persecution has a way of bringing people back to what matters. ❤️

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Thank you for debunking these false prophets. Fink is a sociopath, an unfortunate inheritor of Hitler’s trauma. Sad but also scary and dangerous.

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💯

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Bravo, Karen. Love all your writing. This one is excellent. We need your voice!!!

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Thank you 🙏

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wherein da FINK is a hero, da joos are compared to Marquis de Sade, Manson, & John Wayne Gacy the serial killer--an' hero Nasrallah was a great man of "moxie & morals!" (moxie meanin' "guts")... OMH an' it's on the biggest libertarian site Lew Rockwell...

https://www.lewrockwell.com/2024/10/ilana-mercer/why-the-israel-occupied-levant-must-be-liberated-s-o-s/

Did'ja evah?!

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Finkelstein is easy to understand— he believes that being a victim makes you free from ethical or moral judgments. The story of the oppressed is true and honorable; the oppressor is evil and coward. Justice as defined by the oppressed is true and justifies evil. The fact that he is Jewish speaking against the crimes committed not only by Jews but in the name of Jews is, in his mind, an even more honorable act.

This is of course not true. It’s a nihilistic view clothed by virtuous veneer of justice. Finkelstein is morally bankrupt because he can’t see beyond this neo-marxist viewpoint of thesis-antithesis (oppressor-oppressed)

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Well said.

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Karen once again my heart is so full reading your material as it lifts up Israel and the Jewish people against the backdrop of satanic hatred that once again is illogical and to have useful idiots like Norman blabbering away and being held accountable by you...thank you Jesus for your clarity and passion defending God's chosen people you're a light in the Darkness...maranatha!!

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Thank you so much. Maranatha!

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sharin' a great postin' from an Iranian (-German) women whose doin' some good writin'!

I only wish the likes of "da FINK" could address this kinda wisdom...

https://maralsalmassi.substack.com/p/anti-zionism-is-antisemitism?

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I would only say that true Christians, those who follow the Bible and Jesus' teaching, love Jews and understand that they are God's people and Israel is God's land.

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beautiful! an' it's that simple!

we grew up knowin' that y'all ("most" Christians) were our good neighbors, our friends...

kinda like Martin & Lewis ;-) -- here's a good'un on that...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mHlhtHKHqw

And again, Maralsal Massi's work is worth a listen, yet another voice from Iran who seems ta have first -hand experience what that regime really is like fer women's rights...

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